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Scott and I made turkey turnovers last night. I did the tedious work of chopping and mixing the filling. Scott put the filling on the dough (squares of Pillsbury crescent roll dough) and baked them. Cordelia insisted at first that she didn't like turkey turnovers, but as she smelled them and, eventually, tasted them, she grew more enthusiastic. She ate two and suggested that we should make them more often and that chicken would work just as well as turkey for the meat part of the filling. I'm not so sure about making them more often. The process of making them is fairly exhausting.

I didn't do much else yesterday, mostly just the normal Monday chores. I made Chex mix for Scott. I thought he deserved something nice after a Monday at work. Of course, having done that yesterday, I don't have any ideas for something special to do for today which is likely to be a worse day at work as he pretty much always pulls carts on Tuesdays.

I left my first ever review for a book on our library's website today. I've been reading Luke Pearson's Hilda books and discovered that Hildafolk and Hilda and the Troll are the same exact book (down to the cover art). The entry for Hilda and the Troll mentions that fact, but I didn't actually go into the record when I put a hold on it. I just assumed that it was a different book because why wouldn't it be? At any rate, I've put a brief review on the record for Hildafolk saying what I liked about the book and mentioning that it's the same book as Hilda and the Troll.

Cordelia watched Divergent again yesterday. She took the DVD into her room and watched it on her laptop. She really, really doesn't want to watch it with either me or Scott (he sat in on her second watching, and she tried to get rid of him). Scott speculates that she's starting to think that some of the guys are cute and is embarrassed by it. I'm not discounting the possibility, but I'm not sure that's it. She likes having some things to herself.

metanews needs more link finders. One link finder has just given notice that they can't continue, and one other seems to have disappeared without saying anything. We just noticed that there haven't been any links from their source for a few weeks. This leaves us with three link finders, and we really would be much better off with five or even six. We've reached the point of agreeing that we need to recruit, but we haven't done anything about it yet.

I still have a few topics from the December meme to do. I'm not sure when I'll get to them, but I do still plan to get to them. Maybe I'll do one or two later today, depending on how much time metanews link finding takes. I'm also tempted by the Fandom Snowflake challenge, but I'm six days behind on that and not really sure how I would address a couple of the topics.

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Drat. I forgot the sausages again. I normally eat a cheddar chicken sausage for lunch every day. Scott forgot to buy any when he shopped on Saturday, so we went to the store for them on Sunday. Then we forgot about them and left them in the car. I remembered them yesterday evening but was in the middle of something and so didn't go out after them right then. Then I forgot again. And so I don't have lunch again today (I will probably eat baked beans. We've got a good sized can of them).

At least, it's below freezing outside, so the dratted things aren't going bad.

On a similar topic, Cordelia has changed her mind again about what she wants for breakfast. Bagels are out; dry cereal is in. Right now, she's working her way through a box of apple cinnamon Cherrios. I wish I could get her to eat eggs in the morning. I'd even be happy to make them for her.

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You have a one way trip in a time machine. Forward or backwards in time. When do you choose to go live? (for zhelana)

I am assuming, for this, that for some reason I absolutely have to take the trip, no options. I'm not sure that, otherwise, I'd travel to a different time.

I think I'd gamble on the future. There are medications I take every day that I wouldn't do very well without, and if I went back, I'd be pretty sure not to have access to them once whatever supply I'd brought with me ran out. I'm not entirely sanguine about the future, but I know the past is a place I wouldn't survive particularly well. I'm also attached to clean water and indoor plumbing, and I like being able to vote and own property and all that. I'm not sure how far in the future I'd go, though. Even a decade would leave me hopelessly out of my depth technologically given how fast things are changing.

There's also the question of Scott and Cordelia-- Could I take them with me? If I couldn't, I'd want the shortest possible trip into the future just because it would break me to lose them.

My answer might change if it were possible for me to change the past and if it were possible for me to take a lot of things back with me. I could see going back a century or so and trying to alter our current world's dependence on fossil fuels. I'd want to do a heck of a lot of research first. I'm woefully ignorant about a lot of more or less recent history. I'm not even sure where the potential points are for changes. And who knows? Perhaps more research would suggest some other change that I'd consider more important.