Yup, it’s all about fruitcake.
Tis the season
Yup, it’s December. Lots of shopping days, a little snow, lots of weather talk, more shopping, and of course:
So – it’s just a whirl of phone interviews, requests for interviews and radio show call-ins, and today – an interview with a local paper.
Yesterday almost 400 people hit the fruitcake society’s website. Watch for links to the upcoming press blitz.
Oh and for fellow fruitcake supporters, who would have guessed that the alcohol would be a big selling point for fruitcake among the young male market? Guys who I wouldn’t have bet on putting any crumb of fruitcake in their mouths, happily munched it down with the info that there was alcohol in there somewhere. Eat happy guys, and learn to love fruitcake.
Finally, I posted a newly tried recipe for Pumpkin Fruitcake to the Society’s recipe area. From a great cookbook I’ve had for years, I thought this year would be a good year to branch out a little bit and try a new fruitcake recipe. Turned out great and not hard to do at all.
Friday night, I had a little fun. OK, I was pooped from working Black Friday (let’s just say Holy Moly!) at the Apple Store, but I came home and played a bit with some new techie toys.
Toy One: Airport Express.
I’ve been looking for a way to set up my 3 printers in a space directly behind where I sit. So imagine, the chair swivels around 180 degrees and there are my printers. I got a little tower of sorts by customizing one of those wooden folding bookshelves. Worked great. But how to connect all those printers to the powerbook? Anywhere I considered putting the printers was just too far for the normal USB cable/extension. A powered relay would be needed. Next I considered a D-Link wireless print server. That would be cool but most of the ones I looked at only fed two USB printers and maybe one via ethernet, and were in the 180-200 dollar range.
So I sprang for an Airport Express. I moved the tower o’printers, found a power bar, untangled all the cables and sat down with the instructions. A few minutes later, the first printer was up and running! Now the real test: Unplug the USB cable from printer one and plug in the cable from printer two. Whaddyaknow?! Printer two magically appeared in my rendezvous printer list. Cool. I can live with plugging in the printers as needed. Elegant and relatively cheap solution!
Toy Two: SightFlex by MacMice.
Arrived Friday at work and I couldn’t wait to get it home. Unplugged the iSight’s clamp and firewire cable and plugged in the SightFlex. Plugged the SightFlex Firewire cable into my hub. Voila! A very positionable iSight. Perfect for spying on cats. More importantly: perfect for capturing close ups for quilting demos etc. Imagine if you will — iSight poised and positioned near sewing machine. Computer hooked to projector. Students able to SEE what hands are doing while quilting etc from my perspective, rather than from whereever they’re standing. Cool.
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get to where he has to go–if there are no doors or windows–he walks through a wall. — Bernard Malamud
Believing in the impossible is what teachers are all about.
Go read Mary Beth Matthews tale of a parent-teacher conference and believe yourself.
“One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay, you haven’t much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I’d believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carrroll
The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.
