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Wednesday, April 15, 1998
Don't be fooled! New Ritz Air Crisps, though baked, are not what I would call low fat. As far as that goes, regular Ritz crackers are baked, too! The new Air Crisps are indeed crispy, and tasty, and a paler color than the old-style crackers. But they in no way fill the role of matzoh or rice cakes.
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Auf! Jeder sei nun froh und sorgenfrei!
Ist noch Jemand, der mit Gram
Schwer im Herzen zu uns kam:
Auf! Auf! er sei nun froh und sorgenfrei!
Come! Let every man be glad and carefree!
And if there's anyone who came to us
With grief weighing on his heart,
Come, let him now be glad and carefree!
I played this Schubert lied about four times in a row this afternoon, after being music-less all day. It's a Trinklied (D267, written 25 August, 1815), a drinking song. My machine with sound capability had been tied up, waiting to be debugged.
Then I was seized by a fit of energy, and swept through the bugs assigned to me and dealt with almost all of them, even the ones that have been sitting on my plate for a while for various reasons. (Bugs on a plate! How appetizing!) When a bug is assigned to me, it's because it isn't a bug in my product, but a problem on an external website. I have the fun task of convincing a web author that it would make their users happy if they would let IE in, or correct their broken HTML. So I went down my list and resent mail to those I've already contacted, or put a message together for the new ones.
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For all I think of myself as being patient, I wonder if I really am? I can be patient when teaching someone something, or explaining a topic; my friend Kate says I have teacher genes. But I don't like drifting in an unknown state. It's the J side of being INFJ. So when a situation is unresolved, it's difficult for me to follow all that good advice about just "letting things happen." J, for Judging, likes to have decisions made. The dark side here is deciding before you have all the data, or not revisiting a judgment that is obviously (from the outside) not working anymore.
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We had a review on spins tonight at dance class. I'm still not a pro at this, but I'm much better than I was in the winter. I know that there must have been a very funny expression on my face when I was first learning to spin or twirl, because each dance partner I had would burst into laughter when I did one of those moves. Tom Lawrence showed up for the after-class dance, with just a slight cough from the cold that kept him away last week. I danced with a man whom I know from the Savoy Swing Club. Every time I dance with him, I feel that he has an agenda, a series of steps that he will dance, whether I can dance them or not! I don't mind a challenge, or being lead in steps that are new to me, but I like to feel that I am contributing too!
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