It's a little baffling how fast this summer has been going. Between our vacation and plonq being gone every few weeks, it doesn't feel like we've had very much summer to enjoy ( Read more... )

Another decade has come and gone, and this one has been particularly eventful. Like, a lot eventful.

Some highlights:

Dec 31, 1999: I traveled to Chicago for a kick-ass Y2K party. I roomed with plonq.

February 2000: I got engaged.

Summer 2000: I applied for a Canadian visa and planned a wedding. Very stressful.

March 25, 2001: I quit my bus ( Read more... )

I recently finished two books that I want to tell you about ( Read more... )

Anyway, sorry about the rant. Food safety and food security issues are a hot-button topic with me ( Read more... )

So, yes, we went to see Rush last night.

Awesome, awesome concert. We had pretty good seats, and we were kept entertained during any lulls by Drunk Guy a few rows below us. The Free Press gave the concert a pretty good review too; I was amused that they mentioned the chicken rotisseries behind Geddy Lee on stage. (Browsing the band's website, ( Read more... )

Well, we went to see Ratatouille today, and I loved it. The story was a bit predictable in a lot of ways, but I was especially pleased with the parts that were not predictable.

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Since Christmas, I've been reading. I got out of the reading habit somehow, even during my lunch breaks. It was replaced for a while with knitting at work (until the constant questions of "What are you making?" finally drove me insane), and then... well, I just didn't have any books that sounded interesting ( Read more... )

So, we went to see Grindhouse tonight.

One of my favorite things to do with friends is watch seriously bad movies. I happen to have two DVD collections of terrible movies: 50 Scifi Classics and 50 Horror Classics. They are full of great movies like The Beast of Yucca Flats, Hercules vs the Moon Men and Swamp Women. All are terrible, and all are ( Read more... )

As referenced in my previous an entry: a product reviewPlonq and I went to the Home & Garden show last weekend. We've made some good purchases there in previous years: our best one ever was our wok. (We love our wok.) This year, in addition to scamming a bunch of free cat food from two different vendors, we stopped by a booth that had boxes of ( Read more... )

So, the Brannigans up our way disappeared.

We're not sure when it went away, but it was in the last couple of weeks. One time we drive by, it's a Brannigans. The next time we drive by, it's a Longhorn Texas Steakhouse. plonq, fetlock and I decided to pop by there tonight for dinner. I've been to the Longhorn Steakhouses in the States, and it was a pretty ( Read more... )