All the Summer Stuff: The Day of Canada

 On Canada Day, Tony makes a smoked-all-night brisket. Because he wants to, not because Collette badgers him into it. I think.

Mark looks like he's checking out my husband's butt, but he's not. I think.

There were the usual wide-ranging topics of discussion. Did you know that the kilogram is now defined in terms of Planck's Constant, instead of in terms of some cylinder thing in France? The cylinder thing is called The International Prototype of the Kilogram (band name!) and is platinum-iridium. I am sure some of you DID know this, but I did not, and it took me a minute to understand the concept. As a way of not forgetting it, the way I often forget other interesting facts, I have taken to saying "Did you know that the kilogram is now defined in terms of Planck's Constant?" almost everywhere I go, which makes me a super-fun guest/hang out partner. 

Also under discussion was the question of how many people's blood would be required to generate enough iron to make a sword. This was a segue from talking about Tony's swords, as we do fairly regularly - he bought them in Spain and then went through multiple channels trying to get them shipped back to Canada, all of which proved fruitless, so in Spain they reside to this day. 

Anyway. As soon as I typed "how many people's blood" into Google, it autofilled with "to make a sword", which should not have surprised me but did, a bit. The answer was fewer people than any of us thought - 300-400, while most of the guesses had numbered in the thousands. Google went on to hastily assure us that there are easier ways of obtaining iron (so much for net neutrality, hmph).

This is Collette showing why she was confused about a time zone, because she thought the country (Peru, I think) was in a different place than it was, and Matt adjusting her fingers to the correct place.

It looks like he's mocking her to the group, but he's not. I think.