A couple a things...

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I'm at the gym and the gal next to me is blowing her nose and then casually tossing the used tissues onto the floor around her machine. Quite a pile had accumulated. Honestly, I found this all rather gross. At the market, a lane system guided by a TV screen has been established at checkout. There are three lanes, and on the screen are three, vertically-oriented colored rectangles in which numbers appear directing customers towards the available registers. Doesn't it seem fairly evident that if you're in the left lane, you follow the colored box farthest to the left, middle lane follows the middle box, and so forth? Pretty much every time I'm checking out, someone seems either confused or not to care, and one cashier has to then leave his/her station to direct the traffic. At times, full on bickering ensues. Maybe I'm a visual learner or something, but the system seems pretty basic and self-explanatory. Hmm.

I'm still mourning the passing of Christopher Hitchens. If you admired him too, the Feb issue of Vanity Fair has a wonderful tribute written by Salman Rushdie.

Lattice top for pie

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I decided to cut the laziness and attempt to actually weave my lattice this morning. Foodie friend C gave me this pastry cutter that makes subtle, rippled edges on the lattice strips. I'm not sure you can see that little detail in the angle of this picture, but it's lovely. Weaving is not nearly as troublesome as I'd thought and although I cheated in some areas because I didn't plan ahead well enough, this actually looks pretty nice. Jack is really angling for a piece of this but it's for a party later this week. Love my discovery of the freeze-and-thaw...wish I'd known about that before. Ah well. What are y'all up to today? We're going to bring some bags of items out for donation and just hang.