lyzadanger posted a photo:
Om nom nom nom
This is why I was quiet all weekend. Baked like a fiend because I was the host of Aileen’s baby shower. Brett, Wes, Chris Higgins and Mr. Pencil also strongly involved. Go see the photo at Flickr to see what some of the treats were.
I’m still heartily distracted by the fun lumps in my ‘ppendix (CT scan tomorrow, surgery…soonish?), but here are some other things to keep you distracted:
Hello Lyza,
I was a big fan of yours at Intel and I am glad to see you thriving at Cloud. I’m sorry to haer about your health condition, but it reads like you are dealing with it. I’m up in Portland often and think one of these days I will trip into you at Starbucks near the HF campus. It could happen right 
Best wishes, Alan
The CT contrast in your fridge almost certainly is not radioactive.
It’s probably barium sulfate, which is given to help contrast abdominal and pelvic organs during the scan. They’ll also probably inject you with an iodine contrast when you get your scan, and that also isn’t radioactive.
The only part of the CT scan that is radioactive is the radiation from the scanner itself. If memory serves, an abdomen CT scan has the same radiation as 500 chest x-rays, or about the same radiation you would get from 3.3 years in the sun 
Preston–Thanks for setting me straight. I hate to further bad information into the Internets. I was basing it on something vague Mr. Pencil said :).
Hello Lyza, Uwajimaya or New Seasons should be able to satisfy all your duck fat needs.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hell, you did the entire thing. All I did was bake some scones and drink a bottle of bubbly.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:08 am
Wow… that’s mighty impressive. Last time I tried to bake, people were lucky to get out of there alive.