(Junk) Food For Thought

[ase]

It's official: I am banned from making triple chocolate cookies (with all of one serving instant coffee spread across just under 50 cookies) without the following controls:

1.) Finish baking before 1 PM
2.) All cookies in the freezer or out of the house before 3 PM

I am two for two on making these cookies, eating 3 - 5, and being hyper until one in the morning. Everyone at work is right: these are dynamite cookies. They're dynamite because you're wired while metabolizing that much sugar.

I realized today that I need to learn the polite way to tell people their music is artistically questionable and disruptive to my concentration. Whoever thought up smooth jazz and the soprano saxophone has much to answer for.

Less than a week until I'm on vacation! I need to call dad and arrange to steal his dSLR. Maybe by telling him it's an excuse to return his DS9 DVDs. Yep.

Comments

[ase]

Tried, nearly lost an earring into a biohazard box. Also, it's weirdly distracting not hearing background noise.

Unless you mean offering headphones to the person piping it through their computer. Which sounds like it needs more tact or chutzpah than I've got.

[twistedchick]

Another possible alternative: industrial-strength earplugs, like the ones I wore when working in factories. They may be available from factory supply places online; unfortunately, I don't have any spares to give away any more. They are very dense rubber that turn loud noise to indifferent background sound but allow voices to come through clearly (don't ask me how.) I've worn them to rock concerts for years, and they've preserved my hearing nicely.

[ase]

BTW, nice icon. (Wow. The movie did not suck!)

Earplugs maybe, I think I've got a set of the cheap foam type kicking around somewhere. Fortunately, this isn't a problem more than twice a year. (I hope.)