They've stopped giving out samples on sporks at Fudge Kitchen (Butter Market, Cathedral City*, UK) because somebody managed to stab themselves in the throat with one. Not inside the throat (why would you stick the fudge there?) but the outside of the throat (i.e. the neck). wtf? How the hell do you do that ( Read more... )

Hi! I have probably spoken more German today than I have in the last five years plus. I suspect that the German tourist might have been a teacher as she grilled me about how long I studied German usw. Then another (English) visitor told me how impressed he was with my German skills and how amazed he was at how much German I remembered. I left ( Read more... )

Took the brane to see the benefit doctor, waited patiently and got a nice retired doctor type who thankfully knows about headaches and their evil ways. Quoth he "you really are extremely depressed" (well, yes, that's why I gave up forward planning as nothing positive ever seems to happen) and "2010, this is the year you are going to get better ( Read more... )