Monday, April 24, 2006
Breakfast: yogurt, a banana. Medicare Part D work for Susie. Formatted and set up a laptop for a student. Lunch: Joel and I got takeout from the cafeteria. Unscrewed a screw from Chris's laptop. Dinner at home with Patrick: pan-fried breaded chicken drumsticks, bow tie pasta and broccoli in alfredo. We finished up our Lodestar issue and made it live—about a month late. Fixed a problem with my journal code—it was letting people seek to the previous day before the first entry on 1-1-2000. I discovered the problem because I noticed the link checker was checking dates backwards through 1980. Worked on the Lodestar RSS feed. Having some trouble dealing with em tags. Grrr! Linkchecking for home sites. I never knew until a week or so ago when Phil told me and Patrick that you aren't supposed to put bones in compost. I thought they would decompose, but then he said, "Well, what about the dinosaurs?" and then I thought, well, maybe bones that are turned over and over in a compost heap eventually decompose, but I looked it up later and found he was right. I blame my ignorance on the lack of an Alice Waters education in my grade school and the poor education efforts of my city's trash collection program. I recall the common recycling adage, "When in doubt, throw it out!" which, to me, is another way of saying, "Anything can happen!" because you can't predict what any particular person will or won't doubt. So now I know: no bones in compost! [But on January 9, 2007, I later wrote: "I discovered while browsing the website of the trash and recycling provider for our neighborhood that bones are okay to go into compost, which is the opposite of what I had found in the past on several other websites discussing composting."]