August 15, 2005

• The heat wave is over.  Two days ago, it was in the mid-80s. 
  That’s record-breaking heat here and felt by acclimatized residents as
  sweltering.  Yesterday was cloudy and about 60.  Today it’s
  raining and 55, more like normal comfort.  Still, I’m glad we
  finished the roof before it rained.  I sorta wish I’d put off
  baking the latest batch of gluten-free muffins (orange/almond, yum) for
  a day. 

  I baked 2 days ago when it was over 90 in the house.  Doug did put
  off doing dishes (without running water, he has to heat it on the
  kitchen range) and I’m glad of that.  That extra heat is more
  acceptable today.

  I’m working today, trying to get something up on our Addicts Unlimited
  website.  It’s frustrating.  I had three pages, once upon a
  time.  The host servers crashed and I’d only backed up one of the
  pages.  I’d decided to back up and learn CSS and XHTML to produce
  a better site.  When we lost our old hard drive, I lost the one
  page I’d saved, so I’m at square one now, or somewhere like square -5
  since Mercury is still retrograde.  I like writing, but CSS and
  XHTML are still foreign languages and it’s stressful.

  If I reach some conceptual plateau or a wall, or a breakthrough or just
  need a break, I’ll come back and post the muffin recipe. 
  Meanwhile –

  

  Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.  

   
  

  the Prankster       (42% dark, 30% spontaneous, 21% vulgar)

  your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | LIGHT Your humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You’re notpretentious, but you’re not into what some would call ‘low humor’either. You’ll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefersomething clever to something moist. Youprobably like well-thought-out pranks and/or spoofs and it’s highly likely you’ve tried one of these things yourself. In a lot of ways,yours is the most entertaining type of humor because it’s smart withoutbeing mean-spirited. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Conan O’Brian – Ashton Kutcher

      
  

  Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

    

   
  

  WAY More Emotional       You have: 40% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 77% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

  The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored well above average on emotional intuition and slightly below average on scientific intuition.Keep in mind that very few people score high on both! In effect, you can compare your two intuition scores with each other to learn what kind of intuition you’re best at. Your emotional intuition is stronger thanyour scientific intuition. Your Emotional Intuitionscore is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you’re good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuitionscore tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how wellyou understand your physical and intellectual environment. People withhigh scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, thesciences.

  Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

   
  

  794,690 descendants - you’re more genetically fit than 64% of the current population -

  794,690.Nice. You’re no Mongol warlord, but to have that many copies of your genetic code running around 800 years from now is pretty impressive. You’re not at the top of the scoring spectrum, but, honestly, when you consider that the cheaters, swindlers, and football players of this world are statistically best-equipped to create children, scoring in the middle is something to be proud of. You have the right mixture of attributes. As you’ll see below, some of your lines will die out, but your genetic material will thrive here on earth for a long time to come. Link: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Test written by gwendolynbooks on Ok Cupid

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