Sort of half-here today. Not feeling well. Brewing up jars of
the lavender/basil tea to have on hand so that I don't need to
already feel well enough to make it when I need it. Feeling more
than a little spacey. Will try to nap before rehearsal. Waiting
to hear back from my ISP on a billling matter. (If you don't see
a QotD tomorrow, that means things went badly.)
Was thinking a little earlier, "This recipe should be really
easy to convert to metric because it's all simple ratios so I can
ignore the units themselves: 8 oz of this, 24 oz of ... Oh bother.
Some of those ounces are volume and some are weight. They're not
the same units at all. *grrr*" Wouldn't it just be easier for
everyone to use the metric system?
Though it does occur to me that most (English system) bathroom
scales will be accurate on the Moon, but my (metric system) kitchen
scale will not. Because my kitchen scale measures weight but is
labelled in units of mass.
[And yes, I'm aware that using "kilogram" to refer to
9.8 Newtons is nearly as common as using "pound" to refer to
1/32 of a slug[1], but it bugs me and I'd rather not participate in
such wanton disregard for perfectly proper pedantry. I can
deal with "fl oz" and "oz wt" (with some grumbling), but I'd
prefer to have my grams remain grams and my Newtons remain
Newtons, thankyewveramuch. Pbbbbt!]
[1] Okay, 'fess up: how many of you knew the unit
of mass in the foot-pound-second system before reading
this entry?