Flowers and Computers and Breading

It’s sunflower season in my yard! I planted a bunch in one corner of the garden, and the squirrels appear to have planted a few by one of the raised veggie beds. Thanks, squirrels! Now shoo.
Things aren’t looking VERY hopeful on the MacBook front. The guy at the store wasn’t ready to say that the data is unrecoverable, but it wasn’t as simple as just hooking it up via firewire and moving stuff over, which is what I had my fingers crossed for. Bah. I do all my work-related reading (and all my internet surfing, usually) on the MacBook, but I don’t keep much saved on there, so it’s not the world’s hugest disaster. Losing the data would mean the loss of upwards of a thousand photos (which I usually save on my desktop, but for some reason I had half a dozen folders on the laptop) and several first-halves of novels (I only ever write the first half before I get bored with it). ‘Twould be a shame.
I made more breaded eggplant for dinner tonight. I realize that the eggplant is only a very tiny fraction of the reason I like it so much — it’s really all about the breading. I’m trying to think of what else I can bread. Zucchini will be the next thing, I think. Maybe green tomatoes. I’m also going to try making spicy breaded eggplant. And breaded tofu. All I need are some skewers, and I’ll be set for the State Fair (minus the deep frying, of course).