It's been a pretty long time since I wrote anything that wasn't a meme. I've been on and off sick, extremely busy with a second micro-job and holiday stuff, worrying about the global economy and our family economy, and playing too much Power Grid on BSW.

illyaa's phone finally gave up the ghost about a week ago. So we suddenly had to move on the front ( Read more... )

IMO, a version of this with a grey area for the extra $ in a pie the same size of the bailout pie would have been more visually effective ( Read more... )

I'm not that large. Really. Okay, I could stand to loose 10-15 pounds, so could many people. But what has that got to do with glove sizes ( Read more... )

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I guess no new crock pot for me. ;^D

Replacement pot lid handle knob and screw: $2.25 plus tax at Ace Barnes Hardware

Employee who sawed the previous screw to get it off the lid after it stripped: PRICELESS

Saturday's adventure had an added twist: the black plastic handle of my crock pot lid came completely off when I went to pack the cooker for transport. Well, the screw and nut are still there, but everything else came off. It's been getting looser and looser for a couple of months. It was rather annoying trying to serve the Moroccan Chicken with ( Read more... )

Interesting article about the emerging so-called Homo Obeseus. It puts forward the idea that the typical western diet is screwing us over by sending signals to our DNA to turn us into a "species" unable to cope with inflammation or balance our own metabolisms ( Read more... )

A while back, someone posted a review of Maggie's Pure Land Soap Nuts in green_daily. These are not actually nuts, but the dried berries of the Chinese Soapberry tree, which have a naturally-occurring surfactant in them, saporin. I am not sure what inspired me to actually try them, but I did.
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