Merry Xmas!

Merry Xmas everyone!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...!! :D

It's beginning to look a lot like Xmas because...:

- The Xmas tree is up,
- all the Xmas shopping is done,
- still some wrapping to do, though.
- I'm picking up my parents on Saturday to spend the festive season with me,
- my brother is arriving in a week,
- it has already snowed and
- the heating is on.
- Sweet recipes of eggnog and puffy pastry are out of the closet and...

- I feel all fuzzy inside...!!! :D

"It's beginning to look
A lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
Take a look in the five
And ten glistening
Once again
With candy canes
And silver lanes aglow

It's beginning to look
A lot like Christmas
Toys in ev'ry store
But the prettiest sight
To seeIs the holly that will be
On your own front door

A pair
Of hopalong boots
And a pistol
That shoots
Is the wish
Of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk
And will go for a walkIs the hope
Of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad
Can hardly
Wait for school
To start again

It's beginning to look
A lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
There's a treeIn the Grand Hotel
One in the park as well
The sturdy kind
That doesn't mind the snow

It's beginning to look
A lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing
That will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart"

Cyanide - did you know?

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a colorless gas with a faint bitter almond-like odor.

Most people can smell hydrogen cyanide; however, due to an apparent genetic trait, some individuals cannot!!!! (I didn't know that one! Live and learn! Hope nobody is trying to kill me and all my genes are working properly!)

[3] Sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide are both white powders with a bitter almond-like odor in damp air, due to the presence of hydrogen cyanide formed by hydrolysis:

NaCN + H2O → HCN + NaOH
KCN + H2O → HCN + KOH

in Wikipedia

No, I'm not having any suicidal traits... Just one of those things you learn while you're passing out in front of the TV... Cyanide smells like almonds!!! Amazing!!! Beware...... HaHaHaHaHa (just kidding!!!)

Do you smell something?

Now tell me, did you learn anything new today? Then pass it on!

Pedido oficial de desculpas ao Dr. Esticopernil!

Ora bem,
uma pequena (grande) rectificacao a fazer relativamente a um dos posts...
Fiz uma mudanca de sexo ao Dr Esticopernil e ele nao ficou satisfeito com o resultado portanto tive de reverter tudo ao seu devido lugar e colocar uma compressa de Betadine no seu orgulho... Mil perdoes!!! No post "Pois... e assim... O Doutor ja vem!" escrevi que foi umA colega, A DrA Esticopernil e ups, enganei-me...! Errare humanum est! Afinal e UM Dr!!! Sim, sexo MASCULINO!!!
Nao percebo como me enganei... E o cansaco, esta visto...! Ou entao o facto de achar que tal nivel de inteligencia coordenado com um sardonico (mas nao raivoso) sentido de humor so podia estar acoplado a uma brilhante mente feminina!
Enfim, fica entrega a encomenda... E as desculpas!

Alive, but not so much kicking... and Xmas!

Halli hallo hello to everyone who usually comes to pick on this blog!
Yes, I'm still alive (barely) therefore not so much kicking...
The workload has increased dramatically since the last post and that reflects in a direct correlation with the entries in this little diary...!
Yes, we're talking weekend work and 60h weeks!!! And then people ask me why I'm not happy it's Xmas??? To start with, it happens every year... Just to remind me it's time to start rearranging my mind that each time I write the date I'll probably get it wrong for the first two months... It's time to smile (until the 19 muscles we use for smiling ache!) and sing Xmas carols (with a rubbish voice provided by the pleasant cold that has been my companion for the past 2 weeks). It's time to spend some money in absolutely futile presents (hurray, never mind the economic recession, the world crisis, the millions of people starving and the mortgage to pay!) and hit the supermarket to spoil the diet... It's time to spend endless hours in front of the oven, getting even more tired just thinking of it and time to scrape ice of my windscreen every morning... Yeah, I'm soooooo happy!
Well, OK, maybe I'm acting a bit like Scrooge but wouldn't you if the runway to Xmas was your busiest time of the year? I mean, seriously, working weekends? I must be out of my mind!
Anyhow, I'm actually quite happy... No, I mean it! Can you please stop laughing?? NOW!!??
My family is coming for Xmas and it'll definitely be a joyful time of the year. It'll be the first time this year the 4 of us are reunited under one roof, so that'll make it cosy! And by the way this is going, we might even have a white Xmas! I mean, don't get me wrong, I'll hate my electricity bill, but hey, such is life!
And yes, I've put my tree up!
And some decorations!
And the Holy family!
And I'm looking forward to putting 2 kg around my waist!
So...
All in all, I just got one thing to say...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!