I suppose it can happen to anyone who moves to another country. Or to people like me, who don't pay enough attention. In my own defense, I'll say that what is good, food-wise, varies an awful lot from country to country. In some places, you beat the eggs halfway to death before you are allowed to make an omelet, while in other places you barely mix ( Read more... )

Strolling thru the supermarket aisles can be fun if you're in the right mindset and have plenty of time to read the labels, particularly for food ( Read more... )

A post by melted_snowball mentions that cooking in America is not doing so well and points to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html for more info. [To be fair, his post is about a movie review and a famous cook, but it does mention how Americans eat ( Read more... )

While I was reading someone's post about an insight they had and their associated personal breakthrough, I got to think about fairness and justice, particularly as practiced in the Americas ( Read more... )

So, there's this website I visit a lot. And this ad keeps popping up... this guy, supposedly a famous Financial Planner, talking about how people worry how much disk space an iPod has, but that it takes US$30,000 to fill it with music. And how he tells his clients how much more sensible it is to pay about 15 bucks per month and have all the music ( Read more... )

I'm reminded again that not everyone is aware of things that get reported sporadically over the web/internet and TV. At the risk of making people even more likely to say that I'm overly worried about safety, I give you this: miss_chance reports (with a picture) a pyrex pan breaking in the oven (see http ( Read more... )

I posted this to another website I visit often ( Read more... )

I have not posted in about 31 weeks by now. Or read LJ much either -- lately, unless someone tells me so-and-so posted something I should see, I have not been reading LJ. I will start someday, and I look forward to it. (Just FYI, I read Facebook even less often than I read LJ, so don't hold your breath about that one either ( Read more... )

Lots of walking today, yay ( Read more... )

In the morning we went to the clinic for the Occupational Therapy Evaluation and it was interesting to see, at least to me -- the therapist was telling us what she was observing, instead of just giving us the final results (for example, "we expect you to move in this particular way but you are doing this other thing instead" or "the strength in ( Read more... )