Dinner last night was the last SR, and half a bag of tortellini with Classico spicy etc. and a splash of Sutter Home merlot to rinse out the jar and a few forkfuls of sliced black olives. Evening guild battle was short-ish, tugged at the WebCPS project a bit and determined I'd need a bit of PHP middleware which I didn't feel like tackling overnight. Finished what was left of the neapolitan ice cream and early to bed.

Woke before the alarm, 1 coffee and vitamins, thought abt a scramble wrap for breakfast but it didn't materialize. Second coffee at my desk, Subway standard for lunch, and an ice cream cone for dessert courtesy of Morgan.

Morgan and I had talked about doing the 9/29 Miami (actually Hollywood) ZERO Prostate Cancer benefit 5K , but I was hesitating because that's also the 4th newcomer class at St.G's - with the run at 8AM, I doubted I'd get back in town in time to wash up and get to service by 10, although I could stand missing service as long as I made the class at 11:45. But then she wasn't sure if she'd be out of town, and now it turns out she WILL be out of town... so I'm not even registering for the 5K. We might do a Color Run another time though. A December or January run would be ideal.

I ended up writing not one, but 3 middleware units before 5PM rolled around. This was a nice and relatively simple refresher on percolating data exchange through jQuery and PHP.

This week's Ambrosia with SlowPokes netted me 1 FP and an Arcane Energy, for 1/8 Arcane Energy and 3/10 Crystallized Arcane toward my Helm of Arcane Energies. At this rate I might finish HoAE sometime early next year. I was very tempted to blow some FP on an Oblivion chest roll or three, because I'd really like to add Hyacinth to my collection of generals and she's a Common, but "commons" include a whole pool of junk items, not just that general, so I restrained myself. This also showed me that 18-19M damage is very do-able on a slow kill and still leaves me plenty of stam to plow into guild conquest monsters.

Dinner: a scramble dog wrap. Including the "drumstick" at 4g/310 kcal, my day's protein/kcal count is at 124g/1740 kcal.

Googling the phrase "the apple theory" returns 2.5 main conceptualizations: First, Newton's observation of gravity; one-and-a-halfth, a snowboarding video game achievement where you have to survive a fall without deploying a wingsuit; and two-and-halfth, a noisome witticism about women being like apples in that the ones at the top of the tree are most desirable, but they think there's something wrong with them because men go for the easily-picked lower and fallen ones. I say "noisome" because women (or men, for that matter) who make themselves unattainable and then wonder why they're lonely are entirely responsible for their own circumstances, and there's a rather foul attitude evident in automatically inflating the value (and desirability) of women who, whether deliberately or unconsciously, play hard-to-get.

But none of those is the definition I was looking for. The formulation that circulated among the circle of friends Frank dubbed "the cherubs" was - "You have two apples, and I have no apples, therefore I have two apples". A euphemism for larceny.