My back yard was slowly turning into a Jungle, so I called up the San Francisco Day Labor Program and hired a day laborer to come and help me with the cleanup. Their terms are very good: $50 for the first 3 hours, and $15/hr after that. With one strange (to me) condition listed on the hiring agreement that said “under our program policy, we do not ask about the immigration status of the workers who use the program.”
Entries from June 2009
British Govt ends teaching of the “I before E except after C rule”
June 21, 2009 · Comments Off
See: this yahoo story
Now I’d always found that rule strange, and everytime I heard it, I keept remembering this poem:
“I” Before “E” Except After “C”
It’s a rule that is simple, concise and efficeint.
For all speceis of spelling it’s more than sufficeint.
Against words wild and wierd, it’s one law that shines bright,
Blazing out like a beacon upon a great hieght.
It gives guidance impartial, sceintific and fair
In this language, this tongue to which we are all hier.
‘Gainst the glaceirs of ignorance that icily frown,
This great precept gives warmth, like a thick iederdown.
Now, a few in soceity choose to deride,
To cast doubt on this anceint and venerable guide;
They unwittingly follow a foriegn agenda,
A plot hatched, I am sure, in some vile haceinda.
In our work and our liesure, our homes and our schools,
Let us follow our consceince, sieze proudly our rules!
Will I dilute my standards, make them vaguer and blither?
I say NO, I will not! I trust you will not iether.
- By Duncan McKenzie (in rec.humor)
Limoncello
June 7, 2009 · 2 Comments
Some time ago, a friend had given me a bag full of lemons from her lemon tree (she’d harvested about a hundred pounds last year), so I thought of making some limoncello with it, since some of the recipes I read on line suggested using everclear, and the thought of making something delicious out of it was too much to resist.
Anyway, this is what it looked like last month with the alcohol + lemon peel in a jar.
And this is what it looks like now (about 3 weeks later):
I think I’ll give it another week or two and then bottle it up.
