Beans

It looks like I spoke too soon about getting good food while I was home. I now understand what my sister used to complain about when she visited.

The fridge is full of condiments. If you wanted to make something there's at least three different kinds of mustard, just don't expect anything you can use for filling.

As for the cupboards… Well, there's beans. Lots of beans. Tons of beans. An entire shelf of canned goods that seems to be made up entirely of beans. We've got yellow beans, green beans, lima beans, white beans, kidney beans, baked beans (in tomato sauce, molasses, or barbeque sauce), more beans than anyone can ever imagine using. All represented by at least 2 cans, often with radically different labels — meaning that one was bought years after the other because someone might need another can of something that was never used.

Moving away from food, this computer is unbelievable — and I don't mean that in a good way. Miranda acts odd on it, Winzip has been installed so long that the 'days used/archives opened' counter seems to have reset itself and is telling me it's only been installed for 22 days (despite the fact that the folder it's installed in was created 4 years ago…). The browsers available are Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 3.02 Gold. That's right, a version of Netscape that predates Internet Explorer 3.

It was good for one thing though; I found out that my site looks absolutely horrible in IE 5.5. The spacings are all off, the colours don't match. In short, it looks even more like a page designed by someone who as no idea what they're doing than normal. In fact, about the only Movable Type page that looks right is Peter's, and that's likely due to the lack of borders. It would appear I have something to keep me occupied this week anyways.