That was a Mistake

A grocery store very near my office sells boxes of four muffins baked in-house for $4. I usually pick up a box on a Monday or Tuesday to have something to snack on during the week.

Yesterday, in a fit of impulsiveness, I went for a mixed box: one each of blueberry, pumpkin, chocolate chip and bran muffins. I'm not generally a fan of bran muffins. When I was a kid living at home with the family, I baked frequently and Mom always asked me to make bran muffins, her favourite. By contrast, I always thought bran was just horsefeed with aspirations: tasteless fibre with nothing to recommend it except regularity. But since it's been a couple of decades since I had a bran muffin and I was in a carefree and reckless state of mind, I thought I'd give it a go, just in case my youthful self so long ago was in error.

Nope, I was right even then: bran is still just horsefeed with aspirations. Were it not for the few raisins baked in, there would have been no flavour at all.

Watch out! Who knows what wild & wacky impulsive things I might do next!

That was a Mistake

A grocery store very near my office sells boxes of four muffins baked in-house for $4. I usually pick up a box on a Monday or Tuesday to have something to snack on during the week.

Yesterday, in a fit of impulsiveness, I went for a mixed box: one each of blueberry, pumpkin, chocolate chip and bran muffins. I'm not generally a fan of bran muffins. When I was a kid living at home with the family, I baked frequently and Mom always asked me to make bran muffins, her favourite. By contrast, I always thought bran was just horsefeed with aspirations: tasteless fibre with nothing to recommend it except regularity. But since it's been a couple of decades since I had a bran muffin and I was in a carefree and reckless state of mind, I thought I'd give it a go, just in case my youthful self so long ago was in error.

Nope, I was right even then: bran is still just horsefeed with aspirations. Were it not for the few raisins baked in, there would have been no flavour at all.

Watch out! Who knows what wild & wacky impulsive things I might do next!

First Newsletter!

The first DCDC2009 convention newsletter in PDF format has been sent to convention registrants and to the board of the DC Lambda Squares. The DCLS board also got a copy of our latest committee minutes, just to keep them abreast of activities.

As soon as our web guy is back from vacation and our PDF is up on the DCDC web site, I'll e-mail a link to it to the LGCWSD mailing list.

Now I need to print out 100 copies for those registrants who need copies snail-mailed, 20 copies to include in the dog-and-pony show kits which we send around the continent and another 140 to distribute in the next IAGSDC bi-monthly mail-out. Whee.

First Newsletter!

The first DCDC2009 convention newsletter in PDF format has been sent to convention registrants and to the board of the DC Lambda Squares. The DCLS board also got a copy of our latest committee minutes, just to keep them abreast of activities.

As soon as our web guy is back from vacation and our PDF is up on the DCDC web site, I'll e-mail a link to it to the LGCWSD mailing list.

Now I need to print out 100 copies for those registrants who need copies snail-mailed, 20 copies to include in the dog-and-pony show kits which we send around the continent and another 140 to distribute in the next IAGSDC bi-monthly mail-out. Whee.