Fri Jan 2 03:46:22 CST 1998
The moral for today is that perhaps I shouldn't try to make chocolate chip cookies with shortening instead of butter. But we only had a stick left! Ahhh, well. They came out brown on the edges and crunchy, and soft and white and raw in the middle.
I actually feel pretty bummed about it. Ah well ...
The car won't start. I stick the key in the ignition and nothing, absolutely nothing happens.
Possibly the battery is stolen, but I haven't gotten the hood open to find out yet. Tomorrow, or, at daytime perhaps I should say I'll seek out Uncle's help in the matter.
I learned of the car's trouble when I got up at 0600h on the 31st to drive down to C-U to pick up Moshen and Tim. It was kind of a real bummer not to get down there. I hope Moshen found something to do. I'm guessing Tim stayed at home watching South Park and Space Ghost marathons as we did.
My sleep schedule's all thrown off because mostly what dad and I did was sleep at Grandma's. My sleep time is now roughly from the afternoon to the early evening. How I'm to dislodge that I don't know but since people actually go about doing things on Friday I tentatively hope to get out and maybe visit EnterAct, get money from the bank perhaps, perhaps get a hair-cut ... I dunno.
I really want to spend some time at the Fine Arts Theater downtown. We'll see about that. Maybe I can go to the Harold Washington Library too ... I've never been particularly fond of the place but it's been a few years and I'm fonder now of libraries, generally.
Fri Jan 2 05:49:22 CST 1998
You know, Jessy has headed off to school by now?
I'm starting to get hungry. Maybe time for breakfast. I'm thinking eggs, and maybe some coffee, and if mom is still .. yes her alarm just went off, I can perhaps make some breakfast for her too.
Spent the past while reading Spider Robinson's "Life House" ... pulp fiction, but if Ben Bova is to be believed, of a high caliber. The prose seems needlessly aggressive, and the bits involving computers seemed just a bit silly, but forgiveable, and the characters seem like cardboard stereotypes, but it seems like fun Science Fiction. Take Heinlein charaters and what seems to be a Pohl-ish sort of plot ... we'll see. It's enough to keep me interested at this insane hour.
Oh, and mom's verdict on the cookies was "Baking sode makes a big difference!" ... alrighty, yeah, it's a minor enough ingredient so easily overlooked and since I couldn't find that ingredient in the fridge where I'm accustomed to it doing that "Arm and Hammer" thing as opposed to the baking goods cabinet ...
Irony is I think I've made the same mistake before. Ahhh ...
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