A Bug's Life

101 Things

Carried away by reading a whole ten books in January, I thought I'd reassess (and reorder, and reshelve) the Unread Books. 491 fiction, plus a heap of non-fiction, graphic novels, Teach Yourself Visual Basic 3 in 21 Days and so forth. On the one hand, that's enough books to keep me going for ten years given my average recent reading rates if I don't get any more. On the other, 9 more books would make it a nice round number :-) and I do need to leave some space for Book Club.

101 Things

101.62 Make secrit confectionery. Second attempt tonight, with the aid of a new recipe, a sugar thermometer, and knowledge of what temperature it should reach. Cautious approachment of success, but it'll take a third batch to get there. In the meantime: nom! Sugar for dinner again.
EDIT: Baking parchment would be better than greaseproof paper. And I think I'll need a bigger dish.

101.69 Spend a day making no puns or innuendo. That will be tomorrow. No sticking it in, or sticking it out, and if I get a job done for someone using audacious and fast data fettling techniques, I'm not pulling it off for them no matter how happy it would make them. My colleague won the day today, by talking about my confectionery experiments: "You could take the results and feed them to your pets. They'd be your - guinea pigs." LOL! as the young people say.

101.39 Make theremin. Going to eat a sandwich then get the soldering iron out. *is nervous*
EDIT: Have debugged the theremin already! As in I opened the box and found a small fly had crept in there to die. Have removed it. Now nothing can go wrong!