Things I have learnt since Saturday...

[freyakitten]

1. My biggest pot that is not a preserving pan does not fit 4kg of pasta when cooking it. 2kg, maybe.
2. The equation 1 * 500g pasta feeds 2 people, thus 2 * 1kg pasta (which is twice as much pasta) is enough for four people does not really make sense
3. Having the pasta slightly smoky flavoured from the burnt pasta on the bottom of the pot makes the kangaroo I used to make the pasta sauce with taste so good to my SO that he didn't notice it was 'roo. He dislikes the gamey flavour of 'roo. Doesn't stop him eating it, but usually he notices.
4. MYOB has fewer 'features' than Microsoft products; This does not mean it has no 'features'. Specifically, WARNING: Do not reduce banking details for any one person from two bank accounts to one - for some reason, this affects the datafile in the same way as corrupt data, which MYOB picks up as such when you verify the data. Don't know if this is just the version we're using (the most recent version of Premier) or all versions.
5. It is, indeed, possible to express my pissed-off-ness calmly, and prompt until I get an apology for the behaviour which prompted the pissed-off-ness. Said behaviour was not acceptable, and I'm still angry, but not as pissed-off anymore. Note: No-one with a blog prompted this anger; You are all blameless when considering this episode.
6. I like my mother, I really do. This is not really a revelation. Neither is the knowledge that I have more tact and diplomacy than she does *facepalm*
7. When my SO gets headbutted in the nose, his nose swells up. When (somehow, he can't quite explain it in a way that makes sense) the skin splits over the screws holding the titanium plate in his head in place, people put band-aids on it. When taking said band-aid off, the eyebrow hair that has been driving me nuts (because it curls provokingly over the top of his glasses, is several inches long, and I'm not allowed to pull it out) comes off with the band-aid.

Comments

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

2. Ah. That explains it. I had wondered at the amount of pasta. 3. It was naturally very nice, but being roo this explains why it was exceedingly nice. Thankyou again. 5. You can blame me if you want. You'll be in good company if you do. After all, it's all my fault.<grin> 7. You really must stop abusing your SO then. Either that, or stop climbing on a stepladder before you nut him... Thanks again for the very nice pasta.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

5.1. Since I'm having dinner tonight with Bastard (his work gave him that nickname, not me; I am absolved from all blame), Bastards' parents, and a pair of his family friends, I think everyone will join me in lambasting Bastard.

7.1. It wasn't me :( He paid for the privelege. We don't have a stepladder :(

Maths

[rowlirowl.livejournal.com]

The equation 1 * 500g pasta feeds 2 people, thus 2 * 1kg pasta (which is twice as much pasta) is enough for four people does not really make sense

Trying to understand the pastafarian mathematics:

1. Statement 1: 500g feeds 2
2. Statement 2: 2kg feeds 4

• 2kg / 500g = 4
• 2Kgs is in fact four times the amount of pasta, and thus should feed original number of people (2)* ratio(4) = 8 people.
• Twice as much pasta would be 1 * 1kg.

Pastafarianism just isn't for biology anymore ;)

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued. And possibly gobsmacked :-)

Re: Maths

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

When in the supermarket, for some reason I always need a calculator. My maths logic fails under the fluoro lights.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Having looked at it the next day, I should probably edit that first Things I Have Learnt to 2kg of pasta doesn't fit *more facepalm*

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Hee! Though my gobsmackage came more from the weird and wondrous juxtaposition, in a single post, of such divers-and-diverse things as pasta-cooking, MYOB, Ghastly Parent Behaviour (see my recent post on that subject!) and disintegrating SOs :D

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

5. Ahhh. But it was decided many many years ago that it was "all my fault." All the bits that go wrong anyway; the credit for the good bits naturally goes to someone else. A female, naturally. 5.2 Ever since Paladin of Souls (the second book in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Cycle), I've liked The Bastard (the fifth god of the Quinvirate), and if I lived in that universe I have no doubt that I would have ended up as a dedicat to that deity... Of course there is probably no relationship between this Bastard and your Bastard. <grin>

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

5.2 I don't have to ponder that question. You do, indeed, seem to fit that mould...

Temporary lack of numeracy can be explained by SRM

[placeboid.livejournal.com]

Supermarket Related Madness...after many discussions on the subject I am left with no doubt that 80% of the population suffer from this ailment. Symptons vary from acid like visual hallucinations, hyper irritability, inability to estimate(I budgetted $120 last shop and handed over $320 at the till...damn my obsession with cheese...), numeracy and literacy malfunctions and the desire to ram the shopping trolley into small whinging or screaming children. Symptoms of a more sever nature have been reported to the anti terrorism hotline...

Re: Temporary lack of numeracy can be explained by SRM

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking that I should leave a calculator in my li'l black trolley with the pens, paper, and sheet music.