1. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! We received a very modest check (also known as a warrant) in the mail today from the State of Idaho. We filed an overpayment of our state income taxes. I told Debbie I'd mail it to the credit union and she told me that I can make a deposit via the OCCU app. I loaded up the app and PRESTO! the app took a picture of each side of the check and in a flash the transaction was complete.
That was a fun thing to learn -- and amazed this codger.
2. Do you remember the Dot-Com Bubble of the late 20th century?
Well, what if I were to tell you that Holland experienced a TULIP bubble in 1634 that popped in 1637?
It's a period known as Tulip Mania.
Tulips had become highly fashionable, and speculators suddenly became willing to pay extraordinarily high prices for bulbs and then the whole thing collapsed, and many people suffered great financial losses.
If it weren't for reading the "Tulip" chapter of Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire, I never would have known about Tulip Mania nor about the evolutionary history of the tulip and I wouldn't know as much as I know now about the concept of beauty.
Next chapter?
Marijuana.
3. I tend to stock the stir fries I make with quite a few vegetables.
Debbie, however, fixed a stir fry tonight that was very satisfying and the only vegetables she used were onion and spinach. She deftly combined soy sauce, honey, ginger, sesame oil, garlic, and maybe other ingredients into a superb sauce and added Thai wheat noodles. She also made a pot of brown rice, so I savored this delicious meal, one of the only times I can remember having both noodles and rice in my stir fry bowl.
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