So, after work last Wednesday night, I went to the local Wegman's (a
huge supermarket) and I bought the fixings to make homemade pasta salad
for a party I attended yesterday.

I bought one green bell pepper, a medium onion, and two packs of those
grape tomatoes (because they were on sale). I picked up a jar of light
mayo and some white vinegar.

I got home and I put my groceries on the kitchen counter in the plastic
bags in which they were packed. I did not buy anything that needed
refrigeration so I just left the stuff on the counter for later use.

My plan was to make the pasta salad on Friday night after work to serve
at the pot luck party I attended yesterday afternoon. As it happened, I
didn't get home from work until pretty late on Friday because I went out
to dinner with a friend after work.

By the time I got home, I was tired and I wanted to fiddle around with
Windows Vista, which I installed on my MacBook Pro that afternoon, so I
went to bed and started to try out the new OS on my laptop. Before I
knew it, it was midnight and I was way too tired to start any cooking,
so I never made the pasta salad.

I ended up running to the store on Saturday morning prior to the party
and I purchased a couple of containers of pre-made pasta salad. So, that
left me with an onion and a green pepper sitting on my counter. I didn't
cook anything for dinner last night, nor did I even enter my kitchen at
all yesterday.

So, after I spent today studying for the final exam for a graduate
course I am taking, I decided I would use that onion and green pepper to
make up a batch of my world famous tuna salad to eat for dinner tonight
and tomorrow night.

I got out that green pepper and much to my surprise, it had mostly
turned orange. Why would it do that? Anyway, the pepper looked fine,
otherwise, so I diced it up, and the onion, and I dumped the vegetables
into a big bowl, added three big tablespoons worth of the low fat mayo,
a splash of vinegar, some Penzey's dried parsley, Penzey's onion powder,
and Penzey's celery seed, plush a bit of ground pepper. Then I mixed the
tuna up thoroughly and let it sit while some rye bread reached a toasty
state. The result was quite good, but I didn't know what leaving a green
pepper in a dark room in a plastic bag (which was opened) would cause it
to change color! I guess that's where those different colored bell
peppers come from. So what would cause a bell pepper to turn red or
yellow?

Anyway, I guess I should sign off for the night and get back to my
studying. Sigh!