Like a hot dog?

The post office was out of the cool stamps yesterday (Edgar Allen Poe, Chinese New Year Ox), so i went with the Sunflowers.

Bought a bunch of cardamom to fill up my empty jar in the cupboard; when i got home the jar was magically full. Hmm! The weeks to come will be filled with chai and rice pudding, and i finally have an excuse to make (one of our faves:) chocolate-chip pear bread. Yummmm. Hard to justify, really, but now i have all this cardamom, so, yeah. Sorry. It's gotta happen. Life is so tough that way.

Also:
A ferocious gamma-ray burst was recorded by NASA's Fermi Telescope. Cool stuff:

This burst's tremendous power and speed make it the most extreme recorded to date.

...wow, that just gives me the shivers. i love thinking about all of that stuff happening, way out there... among the stars and the spheres and the spirals and the spacedust. It's really awesome, in the true sense of the word. ;)



'Ta.