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I have a notion I gave the Starbucks guy $20 and not the $10 he gave me change for. But I am not sure. That he said bye-bye after giving me only the coin part of my change, and I needed to ask him to give me the paper part, does not help.

This is going to irritate me all day.

Other stuff

Unless I am forgetting someone, nobody on my flist was nanowrimoing last year. This year, a lot of you are. I am proud of all of you and wish I could join you.

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We're at around $9,500 in seed-funding commitments, which is $500 less than halfway to the floor of our "we need this much investment by Dec. 1" range. (And $5,500 less than halfway to the ceiling.) The line is still warm; some people I've pitched to are still thinking or waiting for me to get back to them. I am both confident and very aware of the ticking clock.

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I have started to read I'm Just Here for the Food as my sleepy-time book. (Being an enormous hardcover volume it's not the best form factor for such activity, but whatever.) I like it so far even though it quickly becomes clear that its intended audience has more cooking experience than me. Frequently AB takes a "Allow me to go against everything you've learned" stance, to which I can only say "don't worry about it; please continue."

After a lengthy introduction that explains heat and the different ways to get heat to go from from $HOT_THING to $FOOD, the first chapter covers searing. And here also we get into the territory that misuba warned me about, with AB insisting I hit the kitchen and hardware stores and buy these thingies before attempting to sear anything or I will die. And of course my reaction is hooray for justifiable crazy shopping! I have not done this yet but it is inevitable.

Woof, woof

Still on the cover, baby. This pleases me even though my share of the royalties is ridiculously diluted at this point. And yes, they finally switched from dogs to cats, so the animal/title juxtaposition would look less jangly. I dunno if I agree with this decision, but whatever.

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Also if memory serves, my bank sent out the final payback chunk from my 2002 car loan, effectively giving me an extra couple hundred bucks a month starting next month. whee

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I'm still on Broad Institute mailing lists so I get mail from unknown names with subject lines like
ROOM CHANGE!!! DOG DISEASE MAPPING TALK
and it's not spam.