tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-690850457652849477.post1419458332066901058..comments2024-03-19T09:10:47.280-07:00Comments on Reasonably Well: An Overcast Kind Of DayJulia Oleinikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04857783768340014545noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-690850457652849477.post-55417677981993965092011-03-23T10:07:50.393-07:002011-03-23T10:07:50.393-07:00Philly's looking rather similar to that today ...Philly's looking rather similar to that today - actually the "view" from the giant windows of my 30th floor perch downtown is basically living inside a cloud. Maybe for fun I'll print out your picture of that sign and put it on the ladies room door? Now that aughta wake up the office...<br /><br />I have similar trains of thought...like certain medicines or even foods, I wonder who even tried something crazy in the first place to figure it out? Take olives for example. A raw olive off a tree is toxic. To become edible and usable, they go through a protracted battery of soakings, rinsings, pressings, more soakings, etc. It can take weeks, and involves using brines & chemicals I'd never have imagined. And yet, humans have been eating olives for centuries! I want to know - what dude was walking around in ancient Mesopotamia and said "Hm, look at those hard ugly blobs on that shrivly tree...I bet if a put them through a week-long process of brines and soakes they'll taste delicious!!" I mean REALLY now!Jenny Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870488565611786295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-690850457652849477.post-62365719097348066892011-03-23T08:26:35.873-07:002011-03-23T08:26:35.873-07:00I'm glad to see you are feeling better. The b...I'm glad to see you are feeling better. The bird is kind of creepy. Definitely some Edgar Allen Poe going on. What exactly is reclaimed water? Maybe the sign is for service dogs?suenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-690850457652849477.post-18119544495739970562011-03-23T06:46:25.067-07:002011-03-23T06:46:25.067-07:00I'm guessing you found your humor...it was jus...I'm guessing you found your humor...it was just hiding in the women's locker room waiting for you! The scenery, dreary as it is, is also so spectacularannienoreply@blogger.com