Punderings

My current Excel registry policy settings prevent me from saving spreadsheets to any 1-2-3 file type. And making it doubly ironic, my current Lotus Symphony (the new one, not the original one) settings don’t include any 1-2-3 file type writers, either. Is this what over a decade of testing/building/coding 1-2-3 releases has brought me to?

Kind of like: “you park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway”.

• Tazo tea bags – a very earthy crunchy brand – use tiny stapes to affix the paper tag to the bag, making it much more difficult to compost them. Most Twinings teas – another premium but very corporate brand – use nifty little string ties, meaning the whole bag & tie is compostable.
• The automatic sprinklers at a local business were on in the rain this morning. Not necessary; there was plenty of rain overnight.
• When I asked for slices of toast at a great local bakery/cafe this morning, the hostess mis-heard me and thought I wanted a whole loaf, sliced. Instead of complaining, I decided to make toast (they have a toaster for customer use). Yum, whole wheat sourdough.
• Arrow Street in Cambridge is one way, the wrong way (i.e., towards Bow Street – which it crosses, of course).
• Yesterday, while writing my blog post about Starbucks Via(tm), I was actually drinking tea. Tazo Awake, actually; I had to cut the tags with the staples off before tossing in the compost.

You know, “Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana.”