Banana Sonnet – L&T – August 11, 2016

Stacked in Kline, sit bananas plentiful with every meal,
Some green-yellow and others turned freckled-brown,
Our precious portable snack by virtue of their peel,
Of form akin to either a smile or a frown.
Stuffing them within our backpacks, we rush onward.
We complain at their ubiquity all whilst cherishing
The convenient sustenance they may afford
On the occasion we miss breakfast the next morning.
Bananas for breakfast, for lunch, for a snack,
Bananas gone mushy, forgot, and split open,
Opportune to satisfy a stomach’s momentary lack
But lacking in long term, necessitous nutrition.
Apples sit there too, you know,
Yet they are seldom mentioned in a manner so.

On the death of my grandma - 11/2/2016

Glassy thoughts
Rifting worlds
Incomprehensible
Emotions, tears
Feeling ... but not

Life as Physics Students

After our class covering rotational motion and gyroscopes this morning, we may now perhaps be prepared to calculate the angular momentum of our heads spinning.

Dog Owners Beware

Dear Dog Owners,

Please, please, please keep your dogs leashed, fenced in, and otherwise appropriately restrained at all times, for the sake of your dog and other people. Don't let your dog go loose outside, and when you visit someone keep your dog restrained. A pet cat walking up to you is not the same as a pet dog walking up to you. Don't tell me that your dog doesn't bite; dogs are animals too. Cats are much less of a problem, but even I won't say that they don't bite. So many of you around here have unrestrained and rowdy dogs that I am considering always carrying pepper spray or a large branch with me when I go out for a walk. I am not afraid to use them on your dogs when they come running, barking, and growling at me. I already put up with their barking, following me, staking out my yard, and leaving their excrement all over - I will not put up with my safety being threatened. You may have a legal right to owning a dog depending on where you live, but you do not have the right to infringe on my peace and safety. You own your dog and your dog does not own the neighborhood.

Please read your area's dog laws. Some of you may be inadvertently violating them, and these offenses can lead to the loss of your dog. Here is a section from local dog control laws found at http://ecode360.com/6182731.

Chapter 103. DOGS Article I. Licensing, Identification and Control

§ 103-5. Dog control.

A.  Prohibited conduct. It shall be a violation of this article for the owner of any dog to permit or allow such dog to:

(1) Be at large; or

(2) Engage in habitual loud howling, barking, crying or whining, or any other behavior which unreasonably disturbs the comfort or repose, or causes damage or destruction to real or personal property, of any person other than the owner of such dog or a member of the owner's household residing with the owner or a guest of such owner; or

(3) Commit a nuisance by defecating or urinating upon public property or upon the premises of any person other than the owner of such dog; or

(4) Chase, threaten, harass, annoy, intimidate or alarm any person or to place any person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm or injury, unless such person is unlawfully on the owner's premises or in the owner's residence or such person is threatening the safety of the owner's person, family, guests or property, and such dog is protecting or guarding the owner, the owner's real or personal property, or any person lawfully on the owner's property or in the owner's residence; or

(5) Habitually chase or run alongside of moving vehicles, horses or pedestrians lawfully using the public highways.

Funny Saying of the Week

Last night I stayed up later than intended and I was very tired. I also needed to get up early (for me) in the morning.

When I came out to say good night to my mom, I said

"Well, I'll be one tired kiddo tomorrow, but I suppose that's better than being two tired kiddos."

Get some sleep. . .

Solved: Windows 8 DELL Inspiron 11 3000 series Screen Brightness Not Adjusting

Here is the process I followed when my screen brightness would not adjust in response to using the buttons on the keyboard, the slider in the settings side tab, or the slider in the power plan section:

Go to the Control Panel

Go to Hardware and Sound

Go to Device Manager under Devices and Printers

Go to Display Adapters
- Click on the item under that heading (In my case, the Intel(R) HD Graphics Family)

Go to the Driver tab in the little window that pops up

Click disable driver (the screen will flash)

Re-enable the same driver (the screen will flash again)

Restart the computer


Et voila! My screen brightness was adjustable for the first time in ages!

Frittata - Served With Lightning

In the midst of our post-Christmas discount candy overload, today I made myself a vegetable frittata for probably the first time. Previously I have made mashed up vegetable quesadillas. At this present time, I like this type of thing much better than plain eggs, plain quesadillas, or cheese omelettes, the latter of which I have never liked. It could have used some more lettuce.

Vegetable Frittata - 3 eggs, 1/4 orange bell pepper, shredded romaine lettuce,
some salt (even though I haven't been salting stuff)

It has been rainy all day and for the last half-hour or so we have had a thunder spell with lightning and huge rain drops, possibly with tiny hail. Our extremely sparse snowfall this winter is apparently an effect of the current El Niño phase.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Everybody!

I wasn't think about New Year's much toward the end of 2015. Staying up after midnight is no longer novel experience for me and I actually began to think of going to bed early on New Year's Eve. Instead, we watched two movies, watched the ball drop on TV, lit our leftover Chanukah candles outside in the shape of "2016" and went to bed close to 1 a.m..

We have barely gotten any snow and the weather has just turned brisk.

Both of my hermit crabs are still alive, and so are the plants I didn't water all semester.

There is hope of getting my room more organized.

My job begins again tomorrow.

Two keys from my laptop are not currently connected to the keyboard of said laptop.

I am not doing any New Year's resolutions, but I am making some notes on things I've learned which would be good to keep in mind.

As of today I think I have submitted everything I need to for my application to Bard. I also got my final grades/crite sheets for CHEM 201 and JS 101, which were both good. Yay!

On with math, physics and English, et cetera!

Best,
Silvie