Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Yes, I've been lax on posting, but we've taken a short vacation with Carol's family, and I'm reading PDFs of the finished pages in my book, for reasons that I don't need to go into here. I have lots to post about, but little time or energy to do it. Bear with me.
• Our new puppy now weighs five pounds and is going on eleven weeks old. He still hasn't

Comments

[quettandil]

I should have figured that if there were anyone else in the world who knew a Blitzhacker when he saw one, it would be your good self!

[jeff_duntemann]

The 1977-ish Blitzhacker that we had was extremely useful for chopping things like onions, but it was cheaply made and broke after about five years of very intermittent use. The Slap Chop looks like it may be better made, but I'll be damned if I'll order something hawked by a carnival barker. I'm sure that similar things can be had at kitchen gadget stores like our very wonderful Sparrow Hawk in Colorado Springs, but in the thick of an overstuffed life I keep forgetting to go look for one.

[quettandil]

Ours goes back farther -- mid to late '60s, I do believe -- and still works.