Free Rice: Play and Feed Hungry People

Check out Free Rice [http://www.freerice.com]. It's a vocabulary game where, for every word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to United Nations World Food Program.

The first time I played, I got up to level 45 with 600-something grains. The second time around, I could barely get up to level 41 after 2000 grains. It gets harder the longer you play.

I wonder if they actually COUNT each grain? There's no mention of it anywhere in the site. Considering their total donated grains for 11 November 2007 of 136,236,930 grains of rice, they must need a lot of manpower. Or they're excellent guesstimators. Heh.

Work Gloves: My New Addiction

[nakalimutan ko may draft pala ako nito]

Some women buy shoes compulsively. I buy work gloves on a whim, and it's a recent realization.

I went back to Ace Hardware to get a 2 inch duplex strainer replacement for the kitchen sink, after having been there just the day before for a 4 1/2 inch sink basket that didn't quite fit - okay, there was a gross miscalculation on somebody's part.

After tucking the boxed basket under an arm, I realized I just didn't want to touch with my BARE hands the icky-sticky-gross old drain that I would need to replace. It had brown guck smeared all over the tail pipe, not to mention the little creepy crawlies that are probably hiding in between the folds of the plastic/water tape that Mom used to patch up the pipe. It's another entire ecosystem within the house, different from the fridge ecosystem and the one in the bathroom. Sorry, Mum.

So I went to the gloves section to get a rubber one.

Now I have:
	in plain nice lime green
	two of these plain heavy cottons, now more grey than white
	and my very first one with one fingertip nibbled off by resident rodents

I want to ride this bicycle!

I want to ride this bike! A Giant City Storm bicycle, as seen from Treehugger. (Isn't it geeeoorgous?)

Wishing for Wordpress

I wish for Multiply to hook up with Wordpress the way it does with Blogger and Typepad et. al. My Wordpress blogs are much more updated than Blogger. Well, relatively anyway, considering that I am a word-miser.

Despite that fact that I would sooner sell off my books than write down whatever comes to mind, I still managed to force myself to get a new blog on Wordpress to track my black to green thumb progress. (No, it does not involve dyes.) Now if only someone would lend me a camera, so I can document my ungrown tomato plants.