Dinner time witterings

[venta]

Two good things this morning:

Mmm. Vanilla Coke.

Quick detour to Sainsbury's this morning, after discovering this stuff exists. It doesn't taste quite like I'd expected - I'd been envisaging the sort of thing you'd get if you dropped a vanilla pod in coke. However, it tastes like a cross between coke and ice-cream soda, and is very definitely A Good Thing.

I remembered that driving is fun. Which is easy to forget, sometimes.

This morning the combination of encroaching summer, and me setting off slightly later than usual, meant that the sun was high enough in the sky to be nice-and-sunny rather than aaaargh-argh-get-the-bright-burny-thing-out-of-my-eyes. And it's still early enough in the year to be a sensible temperature. So I turned Mao Tse Tung Said up nice and loud, and drove along happily. If I had a soft-top, I'd have put it down and laughed at the world.

For a change, I drove in to work through Wargrave and Henley. Which was all fun until I remembered that the Wargrave road is broken as all hell. I rarely agree with Jeremy Clarkson, but as he said in an article a year or so back "Will somebody do something about the roads in Oxfordshire. Please." - preferably soon.

Just to make today slightly awkward, I'm working mostly at someone else's desk. Which is deeply annoying, as there are a 1001 things which I don't like about her Windows setup, but feel it'd be rude to change. I'm surprised how annoying I'm finding these things - the task bar is on auto-hide, and it's a scrolling desktop, and the mouse buttons are the "wrong" way round. These are changeable, but I'm worried I'd forget to put them back. Then there's the mouse - I'm used to a trackball - and the annoying hardware 'beep', and the absence of a text editor... Grumble. Thus any emails sent to me this afternoon will go (even more) unanswered (than usual).

Oh, and a random question about belts.

I usually put my belt on so that the buckle is on the right-hand end. This is, in general terms, the wrong way round. Ordinarily it doesn't matter, but today I have a belt-buckle with a picture on, so I've put it on with the buckle on the left-hand end.

Now. I'd have thought that, throughout history, belts have been more of a blokes thing. Therefore they should do up "boys way round". When I put, for example, a dressing-gown on, I wrap it round me left over right - i.e boys way round. This is the same way round I would put a belt on.

Why is everyone else inconsistent?

Comments

[uitlander]

So you've transformed yourself into Jen... this is going to get confusing.

on belts

[uitlander]

Well, I wear mine with the buckle on the left handed end.
Don't know if this is gender specific or not tho' never really thought about it. Having said that, I'm right handed, but always wear a watch on my right wrist because the left wrist just 'feels wrong'.

Ooooh! I love vanilla coke!

[condign.livejournal.com]

I used to make it myself, and I've not had it in a while. Is it only at Sainsbury's? If so, what vile evil keeps it from my favourite Tesco shelfs???

Oh wait--a quick look on Tesco Online says they have it. Good thing I was making an order tonight!

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

You know, not once in my life have I considered which way round my belt should go, and now you're telling me it's on backwards!

(Buckle on the right-hand side. It's just easier to do up that way...)

ISTR that the reason why girls' buttons and belts and things go the other way is because they're meant to have a lady-in-waiting dress them, whereas boys have to do it themselves... (Although I prefer my entirely logical explanation that it makes it easier for members of the opposite sex to remove each other's clothes. But maybe that's just a sympton of the heterosexual power conspiracy or something...)