A Few Quick Notes 216

-Today, just like yesterday, has been a little sub-par. In this case, unlike yesterday, the swings between good and bad weather have been more drastic. The good periods have been filled with sunny skies while the worse periods have been filled with thunder showers, lightening, and heavy rain. If things go as they are predicted to, this type of weather may carry over to tomorrow.

-For dinner tonight we had oven roasted potatoes, corn on the cob, cauliflower, and barbecued pork chops. Not only was it tasty, I am of the belief that it was also on the nutritious side of things (though I could be wrong about that).

-For the third day in a row Neil and I made our way over to the automotive/homeware/hardware store on Quinpool. The goal of the trip was return the lamp that we had acquired through exchange yesterday. And aside from the long wait at the customer service line the process was smooth and straight forward. I was particularly pleased that they employee didn't hassle me about wanting to return an exchanged item (as it is pretty clear to me that the item is poorly designed).

-Unfortunately, just as Neil and I were entering the aforementioned store we noticed that there were some threatening clouds not all that far away from us. Soon after entering the store it started to rain heavily. This lead us to decide to stay in the store for a while to try and wait out the rain. When it became clear that it was likely to rain for at least a while longer than we were prepared to stay in the store we decided to head over to the nearby fast food joint for lunch.

Fortunately, by the time we finished our meal it had stopped raining. This meant that we didn't have to move on to our next steps on the rain avoidance program which would have included going to the grocery store and the video rental store.

-There have been a surprisingly large number of lightening flashes as I have been sitting here typing this message.

-In part because of the continuing bad weather and in part because of other reasons Neil and I made our way to the local used video retail outlet to acquire some low-cost second hand DVDs. In the end we walked away with five movies, some of which we had heard of before and some of which we hadn't. Hopefully they will be pretty good, though I would think that out of five such movies we might get at least one dud.

-Last night we watched the New Zealand film Eagle vs. Shark. There were a surprising number of particularly funny lines and moments. I think that we were all pleasantly surprised with this film, particularly as none of us knew much about it before we rented it.

-This morning, much to my surprise, I found that many of the seeds that I planted just a few days ago have started to sprout. About 10 radishes have come up, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few more are visible by tomorrow. One of the bean seeds has sprouted quite visibly while three or four more have sprouted but are only visible if one really looks for them. It also seems that two of the types of herb seeds that I planted have also sprouted. Unfortunately I didn't mark the pots so I don't know which pots contain which seeds, so I don't know which have sprouted and which haven't.

I am hoping that more growth will be apparent tomorrow.