going nowhere?

[darkoshi]

A mandolin cutter put some gouges into my thumb yesterday. That's what I get for ignoring the warning to always use the food-gripper thingy with it. It was bound to happen eventually. Maybe I won't ignore the warning anymore.

With the waterproof bandages they have nowadays, the gouges hardly bother me. It would be nice if they made smaller mini-sized ones so that I wouldn't have to cut them in half for cuts on my fingers. The cut side makes it easier for water to eventually leak in, when washing hands or taking showers.

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One reason I like the sounds of katydids and cicadas and such is that they speak of another world right in the midst of this one. The human world could disappear and they'd still be there, singing those same songs.

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I discovered that one of Notepad++'s dialog boxes has a button labelled "I'm going nowhere". At first I was perplexed, then amused.

Comments

[frith]

Ouch, the horror! I'm always amazed that I have yet to cut myself with a potato peeler.

Neonicotinoid insecticides have not been kind to insect populations. While I don't miss the mosquitoes and other blood sucking flies, I hope that insects bounce back next decade.

[darkoshi]

I also have a vegetable parer with a sharp serrated edge. It peels things much easier than any flat-edged one I've ever used, but has cut me a few times too. Yet the flat-edged ones don't seem any safer because it takes more force to make cuts with them, so when you slip... I'd considered getting some cut-resistant gloves to use in the kitchen, but am not sure how well that would work. Might end up with cut up pieces of glove in the food.

I haven't noticed any reduction in mosquitoes around here; that's one insect I wouldn't mind to be rid of.