From Jezzikuh Graves on Facebook as posted by Sarah.

When poured onto cereal, milk is: A.) a beverage B.) a broth C.) a sauce Present your best argument.

Maybe a chef would have the official answer from the official books of cookery. Myself, I guess it would be a broth. A sauce would need to be thickened, which milk isn't unless you add cornstarch or flour to your milk. Although cereal likely has cornstarch and flour in it, the milk doesn't really become thickened like a sauce. A beverage is served in a glass to be consumed on it's own.

As read in an old Reader's Digest while waiting somewhere:

My husband was a university student, and money was tight for our family of seven. We were attending a friend's wedding and our four-year-old daughter, Christy, was sitting next to me.

When the minister asked, "Do you take this man for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health?" our daughter turned to me and said in a loud whisper, "You picked 'poorer', didn't you, Mom?"

Communication is so easily misunderstood. Sometimes it is something to laugh at, but not always. A small change in punctuation in the written word can mean a lot. In spoken language we have more to rely on with body language and tone and yet it is easier to mis-hear the words or give them our own interpretation with "select hearing" and other human failings.

Peter Grant has a page of Great Science Fiction Quotes in his blog. I can't pick just one as a favourite. Here are some:

“There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality… It’s a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can’t think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.” – Arthur C Clarke

“Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?”

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.” – Isaac Asimov

“Experience comes from doing, not from being told. Experiment and discover. Seek and find. It is not machinations of others that compel us to do so; it is our need to know. It is, in the end, the way we learn.” – Terry Brooks, The Talismans of Shannara

“A neat and orderly living space is the sign of a dangerously sick mind.” – Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon

“Reality is the part that refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” – Phillip K. Dick

I found a few others in my own searching:

"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects". - Gene Roddenberry

"Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible." - Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone

"The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself." - "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)

From the 3rd Annual Flash Fiction Challenge 2010:

In each challenge, writers have 2 days to complete a 1,000 word story based on an assigned genre, location, and object.

There are three rounds to compete in, narrowing down the writers, until the fourth round when there are just 25 left in the competition. The official early entry deadline is July 8th, 2010. There are prizes for winners but, there is an entry fee to start. So, why not take the challenge unofficially?

Every 2 days pick a writing genre (western, fantasy, etc.) then a location and an object (how about your living room and an empty can of diet Coke), for instance). See if you can keep to the schedule and come up with a 1,000 word short story.

I like to look at interesting jobs in the arts/ crafts area. So many unique and interesting jobs we just never hear about or never stop to think that someone actually does that and gets paid for it!

Have you thought about being the person who creates window displays before? I have. Even back in high school I considered it as a career option. Too bad I didn't do more about it then. But, you can't be the person you are now in your past life. I'm still hoping for time machines so I could at least whisper in my ear a few times. Until then... I can research and live vicariously.