baking, standing up in the boat, and solving your hardware problems

 My friend did not claim to have coined the phrase about baking and cooking.  She probably ran across it, liked it, and adopted it.  Cooking consists of many things, but once it goes into the oven isn't it pretty much time and temp?  

Maybe not exactly.  In my previous muffin experiences I have been hung up on the phrase golden brown, and following the times given after fifteen minutes (350 degrees) my muffins have emerged golden brown.

But you know golden brown translates in a mini muffin to somewhat charred.  Actually I like a little char in my muffins, but these are baked for the multitude who considers them, well, burnt.  And in fact in this last fleet I deduced that fifteen minutes was for a regular sized muffin and not a mini.  The current batch I pulled when they were just an off-white variation of yellow, and turned golden in the process of cooling in their little tins.  Nobody gushed to me about them, but when I passed the food I always had to refill the muffin box.  

I didn't call myself a knucklehead who slops paint around sometimes, but I used similar phrases when somebody called me an artist, but now I just nod because it is much easier.  I do make art of a sort.  To my mind if you spend a lot of time oh, baking or painting, regardless of the results then you are a baker or an artist.  But it's a free country, and if Old Dog chooses not to want that appellation, well then that is why George Washington was standing up in that boat on Christmas.

George Washington went forth

His thoughts were of redcoats and his teeth were white oak

The Hessians were partying hardy, but he gave them death

George Washington the beautiful.

Okay the Hessians did not wear red, I took a little license to match Sredni Vashtar.  I can do that because I am a writer and not a knucklehead, ok maybe both.

Dropping in on Mr Google with the print on my monitor is smeared to the right I found a plethora of answers to Beagles's problem.  I did not look any deeper because I assumed the answers went from change the comma on the 142nd line of your registry to a semi colon, to have you tried turning it on and off again, and I am sure the ever popular sacrifice a virgin was in there too.

I suggest that Beagles dig into that and waste a perfectly good afternoon trying all the solutions till he finally gets so pissed off that he kicks in his present monitor.

Then he can go out and buy a new one and the problem will be solved.  Or maybe not.