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Monthly Archives: June 2014

Time Bubbles

I have discovered something. Patient waiting rooms are built in a time bubble. I base this on observational findings.

Have you ever noticed that daytime talk shows are always playing in a patient waiting room?  Always.  Regardless of the time of day.  The clocks and watches all reflect the perceived time according to the rest of the general area, but they are not accurate, because daytime talk shows are the only thing that play on the TVs in the waiting room.  It does not matter what time of day it is for the rest of the region surrounding the waiting room, inside the waiting room it is always morning.  Probably mid-morning since that’s when there’s a plethora of daytime talk shows.

Also, the prime of daytime talk shows was probably in the 90s.  This brings an added element to this whole situation.  What if the time bubble isn’t just so a waiting room is always stuck in the morning hours but also makes you go back in time to the 90s?  I do often seen older magazines in waiting rooms.  But then again, I see current ones too.  Maybe they purposely place those in there so that you don’t notice that you’re always stuck in the morning.

And what is the point of having this time bubble exist in the waiting rooms?  I’m sure it has to have something to do with how long doctors will keep you waiting, seemingly without reason.  Obviously, this needs more study.

Since the effect seems only affect the patient waiting rooms, I’m going to assume that there is a small time warp generator probably built into the walls, or at least places nearby. I think I’ll spend time looking for it since it’s a hobby of mine to hang around patient waiting rooms. I should have plenty of time to look. Just need to make sure that I don’t look too suspicious so that they kick me out or tell me to stop…

I make! Buttermilk berry muffin edition

I have had a huge craving for muffins recently.  I don’t really know why.  In particular, I wanted raspberry muffins, which is weird because I’ve never had raspberry muffins before.  I had a friend in Canada who would often get a raspberry muffin during his coffee break and would tell me about it.  But that’s about the only exposure I’ve had with raspberry muffins.  It did make me really jealous though.  The muffins he got sounded so delicious.  And there are no raspberry muffins to be found in CA for some reason.

Anyway, I’ve had some time off recently and I had been filling my time with YouTube videos on cooking because I wasn’t really in a position to do anything else that was productive.  During my marathoning of various YouTube videos, I found the Joy of Baking channel and on it, there is a recipe and demonstration for buttermilk berry muffins.  PERFECT.

I made these one Friday with the girls and instead of using mixed berries, I used up the raspberries I had in the freezer.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have any buttermilk on hand that day, so I used milk and lemon juice as a substitute.  They turned out pretty good, but missing the fragrance and flavor you get with buttermilk.  I had also cut down on the sugar the first time to about 120g.  I’ve decided it’s not necessary.  Her recipe isn’t sickly sweet to begin with and using the full amount of sugar she calls for is perfectly fine.

So I tried the recipe again, this time with buttermilk.  Actually, I ended up just getting a canister of powdered buttermilk because I’m tired of always going on last minute hunts for buttermilk when I need to use it in a recipe.  Now I have lots of buttermilk!  And it’s easy to use in baked goods!

Anyway, the second time I tried it, I used up the blueberries in the freezer.  They baked up really nicely and they look so nice coming out of the oven and they smell so good (they taste good too, in case you’re wondering).  So good, that even sharks want muffins.

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I have the best oven mitts, guys.