doodledee

Here are some things that surprised in the last 24 hours:

• The realization that we actually are going to use the entire 10000 pack of diapers we bought at Costco even though when we bought it I said that our kid would have to wear them until he was 16 in order to do so. My estimates were apparently off. Funny how that works.
• Tonight I came home and found that Libby had made some kind of crazy new hybrid cake/bar thing that has dates and chocolate chips and a crunchy topping and is generally awesome. I've had three properly portioned pieces already this evening. And by "properly portioned" I mean "ridiculously large". Recipe available upon request.
• How bad that PBS special 'Minnesota - History of the Land' turned out to be. (Alternate title: "Minnesota - Ruined Forever".) It was basically a 4-hour recap of everything bad anyone has ever done to the Minnesota environment, accompanied by a depressing, down-tempo Peter Ostroushko mandolin soundtrack. By the end of the second night I was so disinterested that I couldn't even get worked-up when they went off about how the suburbs are ruining the universe. Eh.
• While browsing the new iPods over at the Apple Store today (total iPod shopping time to date: 26 months), I noticed a link to the special 'educational pricing' section. Curious as to what the new discounted edu prices would be, I keyed in that I went to the U and hit the 'continue' button. The Apple site redirected me to some horribly designed internal U site that asked me to login before I could shop, which I was able to do because - get this - I *totally* remembered my old university username and password (last used circa 1998) and - you guessed it - for some crazy reason my account is still active. Huh?