View From the Bushes

Tommorrow is Thanksgiving, and for most people Friday is a holiday as well, but not for me (though since I was recently chosen by the execs to be on the benefits steering committee -- I may have to suggest that). Though I think I will take a break on Friday from posting in the blog, give myself the false impression that I'm getting the day off. This evening I'm finally getting around to taking the family to see The Incredibles. My number one son I think had begun to despair that we would ever go. I'm pretty excited about it myself.

Returning to the subject of Thanksgiving, we're going to my family's house this year. My family does a pretty big production. We start with the appetizer course at noon, the main course is at two and then we have the dessert course at 4:00. At six o'clock the wheelbarrows show up to take everyone home. Of course, all the dishes get divided up; as usual I was in charge of the cheese plate for the appetizer course. I'm still trying to perfect the cheese course, but there are only tiny incremental gains to be made. Once you realize that you need to include gorgonzola and smoked gouda, you're 95% of the way to a perfect cheese plate.

Finally, from the Man-I-Wish-I-Could-Do-That Desk comes the story of a man who only needed 12 seconds to calculate the 13th root of a 100 digit number in his head.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross