Today I learned...

That 8.8 cm is very, very small. Like, impossibly small. 

Aye, but that depends on what you're talking about...it would be a really big spider!!!

Aye, but that depends on what you're talking about...it would be a really big spider!!!

Too right! *shudders*

Barry Manilow has had a little 'work' done on himself. Yikes.

Ok, that's hilarious about Barry Manilow!  And true.

Today I learned that I really, really miss my bed when I'm gone. 

Barry Manilow has had a little 'work' done on himself. Yikes.

LOL that is all I could think of when I saw him interviewed this morning. I couldn't even listen to him....it isn't very flattering, in my opinion.

Barry Manilow has had a little 'work' done on himself. Yikes.

If that's a "little" work, I'm afraid of what you think of Kenny Rogers!!

If that's a "little" work, I'm afraid of what you think of Kenny Rogers!!

That man is SCARY!!!

...that wasps can very well return to the exact same spot they were removed from the day before.
*shudder*

that it may take about  2-3 months before DD will be able  to see  an OT..  :\\\'( :(AARRRGGHH!!

All sorts of things about cooking, thanks to so much down time at work and my addiction to food blogs. I can infuse my own oils, make pesto like an Italian grandmother, and cook Mexican food with feta cheese! 

that the Stade Francais rugby tops are utterly horrendous!
(with thanks to Douglas, who delighted in revealing this to me!)

The iggy function on this site is brilliant.

...how to make beer!   I saw a brew-on-premises make your own beer place, so my sister and I went today to make beer. Neither one of us like it, but my brother does and his birthday is in a few weeks, so he's going to have homemade beer for a present! It's a copycat Budweiser recipe, and we saw a cute label called "The Black Cat." My parents' cat is a black cat named Salem, so we're calling it "Salem's Bud."   We have to go back in 2 weeks to bottle it and I can't wait to give it to my brother. He'll love it!

ETA: I also learned that if I stand by my kitchen sink, I can hear the washer and dryer in the basement and don't have to walk downstairs to see if it's still running! 

Not very interesting but we went to Annapolis today and stopped by the Navel Academy gift shop to buy my father a tee-shirt and they didn't charge tax so I asked the cashier why and she said when you are on government property there is not charge of tax. Of course that is not a bad thing but I found that an interesting exception.  

You can make a low fat cheese sauce by melting some cheddar cheese into some chicken stock. That might be the most useful thing I've ever learned from Rachel Ray!