All right, so...

I made mustard today! I'm letting it mellow for a while - preliminary tasting indicates that it is a. yummy but b. still MUCH too pungent.

The acorns have been dried. I think they taste very bland (apparently the very common big round variety is the very bland variety) but Evangeline declared them "soapy". Soapy? That's not good. And I didn't taste a thing! But then, I don't taste anything strange about cilantro either.

Well, I'll grind them up anyway and we'll see what we see when I make a small batch of bread or something.

Might make some pretzels today too. Gosh, I love hot pretzels.... Mmmm! (And I have all this mustard to use up anyway....)

Let me just say I'm tired of hearing about that cruise ship

I got to watch the news last night. They were talking about... the cruise ship! "Oh, the food was so bad and disgusting!" the kids say. Do tell. "A sandwich with just jelly and butter. A sandwich with just cheese!" That's disgusting? I brought that sort of thing to school with me for lunch as a kid! "Oh, the bathroom smelled!"

Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.

Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?

I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?