*psst* Don't tell Jenn...

_{I'm getting Ana some fingerpaints!}


*cough*

Well. Um. Actually, I'm getting *me* some fingerpaints, leaving them at Jenn's house, and letting Ana play with them. Same difference.

And yet another article on That Issue.

This is a new one. Not really new information, though.

Literalness and where it can screw you over miserably.

Example one: When you answer questions on the support board, there's a little blurb that says "Before answering somebody's question, read the support guide."

It took me weeks to break the habit of trying to skim that thing with EVERY answer. No joke.

Example two: Way back in September, a few weeks before their stated deadline of 9/30, the library started checking IDs to see if they were validated. The library at BC is run by a bunch of paranoid, power-hungry idiots. Moving on... Mine wasn't validated for that term, but the guard said "if the most recent one is spring, you can go in". My most recent validation was for summer. No, it had to be spring. Now, the card *was* validated for spring! But because she'd said "most recent", I didn't realize that I could just show her the spring validation, so I ended up waiting on line to get this validated.

Then I realized how stupid that was.

*grumbles*

*sniffles*

And this, boys and girls, is why one should never google oneself.

So, last post and then I sleep.

[Poll #379901]

So, we went to the Children's museum today, took some pictures.

( Ana all by herself )

( Seth all by himself )

( The babies on a bench )

( Jenn with the babies )

( Me with the babies )

( Abdul with the babies )

( Ana in a dress-up Korean outfit )

( Me holding Seth )

It was so warm out, we spent a long time walking around Snug Harbor instead of actually going into the children's museum. Wonderful, I got to take off my shoes. I *hate* shoes.

While we were wandering around Snug Harbor, and I was chasing Seth, I found something weird.

It's some sort of citrus fruit. There were tons lying all around the ground, they'd fallen off a tree. So it's a citrus fruit that can grow in New York. It's kinda fuzzy, about the size of a golf ball. I took two of them home to see if anybody could ID them. When cut open, it smells kinda like a lemon (I and 'dul think) or kinda flowery (Jenn thinks), but not at all sour or sharp like a lemon does. Jenn now says it's like a slightly soured/bad orange. Which may mean that the fruit itself is going a bit old, not that this is what it's supposed to smell like.

The brown in the picture is part of the peel, probably age.

( And now, the picture! )

So, can anybody help me out here?

Edit: So, all the things youse guys are suggesting grow this far north? Really? Cool.