I went, as most of you probably know by now, to watch Stardust, which was both better and worst than expected in the sense only a favorite author's work, modified so that it's missing some crucial information but yet still managed to make sense and fluffiness afterwards, can inspire.
Isn't it reassuring to know that, regardless of the years and my (questionable) changes in writing style, run-on sentences will never be out of fashion? Yep folks, it goes on and on and on and on, just like either the energizer bunny or, if you know who the Arrogant Worms are, their song about Celine Dion.
The yard had evolved while I was in Davis, and now the mint's flowering and there're bees everywhere, busy pollinating and generally getting in the way. The neighbor's fruit tree snuck in under the fence and began to invade our yard, strangling the calla lilies but, for most part, stayed at the area where the alyssums, being the opportunistic sort of plant they are, invaded right back. So it's all worked out or at least, until I trim the garden over there. I guess I'll just have to be more careful about maintaining the delicate ecological balance in my backyard.
The dill experiment with the dill seeds (which Annie had brought from home and which had died because of a general lack of sun and high bromate concentration in water) has, more or less, produced two flourishing dill plants and lots of dill seeds which I've harvested. I've also learned that dill does not repel aphids, but the aphids will eventually leave after the seed pods are done growing and have dried out. The snails are still eating everything in sight including, but not limited to, the radishes, the marigolds, the sunflowers (I managed to save two seedlings from total oblivion). The garlic (from that time when Kate got more garlic when I'd already got some garlic and we ended up with garlic sprouting in our fridge) is the sole plant to escape mass extinction by the sole virtues of being garlic and, therefore, stinky. I thinned the garlic yesterday and dad put the ones I thinned out in the supper meat dish and it was very good.
Harvested corn. Puzzled over corn cross-pollination. Puzzled over pollen dispersal until mom suggested I number all the corn I picked to keep track, so I started doing that yesterday. (The plant from row 2, column 1 yields corn with pure red kernels.)
On top of that, my INS interview's today and I started playing with Ubuntu yesterday, meaning that I've been attempting to install it on my old desktop. I've uninstalled the original harddrive (safety reasons) and swapped it for the 2.5Gb one that I originally had as backup and tried to boot from the CD, but it turned out too slow. Dad gave me a 3 Gb one which is slightly better, but considering my RAM's only 128 there's...not much difference to be expected. Dad did offer to give me another strip of RAM, which'd double the memory to 256, but I told him that I should wait until I'm done experimenting before I involve anything that might still be potentially useful in the future. I'm serious: my desktop is scrambled together by my dad and contains parts that have been either taken off of broken computers or used to be broken, but have been fixed by him. The harddrive date at around '98 and is actually hold enough and decrepit enough for me to play around with. (I would not DARE to experiment on laptops, if only because I can't keep track of the screws - in laptops everything has to be bolted down so it's harder to swap parts if you just want to see how much you can improve performance just for the heck of it.)
I've currently got screws and computer bits littering my room. Along with lots of pens and pencils and an unholy number of books (mostly from SC library).
Needless to say, I'm, in my own way, enjoying myself.
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