Dancing In the Data Center

It's video's like this that make me long for the days in IT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bymmMarHclU&eurl=http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-twas-the-day-before-christmas-and-all-through-the-datacenter/

The word of the year is "w00t", apparently spelled with zeroes instead of o's and I used it several times in Festival Madness.

Cool.

Latest Scottish Highland calf update: late yesterday we drove by the farm and Maggie was standing outside the barn nursing her new calf. I came by way after dark and couldn't see anything. Was too timid to turn the car sideways in the road to illuminate the barnyard. Hope everyone was warm and snuggly inside. The calves are very hardy but it has been colder than a welldigger's a__ around here the past two days.

Lots of stuff to do: baking more cookies, prep for tonight's big feed of pork roast and all the trimmings, errands, wrapping, the tree, finally the tree, and all that stuff. Thisbe spends endless hours in the icy garage waiting for the chipmunk to appear, announcing "I am your Christmas cat toy."

The snow outside has taken on an ugly frozen sheen, like whipped topping. I hate whipped topping and have given up ordering anything that might possibly have it at cheap restaurants. When quizzed, the "waitstaff" has been heard to announce that it came from a "bag in the kitchen." Now, I ask you, a "bag"? When you pin them down, it is almost never real cream.

Whipped topping undoubtedly has transfats up the yingyang and is a totally artificial food and I can't believe that the Food Network sometimes contains recipes calling for it. What's the matter with the light whipped cream in a can which at least is sort of real food? Don't screw up your desserts with topping. YucK.