Sweet Rides

I'm looking forward to the release of Wolfram Alpha so I can verify my hypothesis that I live in an area with an unusually high concentration of Bentleys. I've seen half a dozen over the past few days.

I suspect this comment reveals where I live.

Rice pudding, chocolate custard, and strawberry shortcake

These are all sweet things that figure prominently in The Poky Little Puppy. Every time I read this, I'm a bit puzzled as to what it is trying to teach. On the one hand, being poky works out pretty well for a while -- the poky little puppy avoids punishment and gets dessert all to himself. So dawdling is good, as is letting others take the fall. When the poky little puppy misses out on the strawberry shortcake, it because his siblings have made amends while he was still ambling slowly home. But what happens next? Does the poky little puppy become less poky, or does he conclude getting 2 out of 3 desserts is a pretty good deal?

In any case, now I want to make chocolate mousse.

Sweet Thursday

Free cookies (because they were supposedly overdone) at the sandwich shop.
Counter help who are extra-kind to moms with kids.
Eating dinner in the sunshine.