Last night’s fish stick meal was a spectacular failure. Undeterred, we make another attempt at the same menu—with similar results. In other words, the beets in the salad are slightly smoked.

Most of us went to watch The Incredibles this afternoon. Our son and Chris saw it last weekend, but our daughter was sick. This time around Grammy accompanied us as well. We all thoroughly enjoyed the show.

Since we filled up on junk at the movie, a small meal was a good idea. The planned meal was not exactly a seven course meal, so it seemed perfect. Besides, we had one less beet than we had originally planned. Even so, we still had too much food—mostly on account of making the entire box of fish sticks.

We did try to microwave another beet tonight. Yet again our scientific natures cause us to live life on the edge. Since we had another fire with tonight’s attempt, we may be done microwaving beets for a while.

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