Place a block of refrigerated cream cheese in foil wrapper and a stick of refrigerated butter in waxed paper on the back patio at 5:30 PM.  Wait 25 minutes.

The good: Block of cream cheese is nicely softened and ready to use as a spread.

The bad: Stick of butter is half liquid and half all but, good only for dipping.

I've posted it before, too, but it was *checks* FOUR years ago. So enjoy anyway!

This is an excerpt from a spy story by Alistair MacLean (When Eight Bells Toll). It's the middle of the night, and the protagonist is on a short grass landing strip, near the enemy base (a private castle on a Scottish island).

The strip was smooth and flat and I made ( Read more... )

...when you start to type "Costumer Support" instead of "Customer Support" in a business email.

*g*

In a lighter vein than yesterday, I figured I'd pass along something that showed up in my email yesterday.

All of these are names of cities or towns in Texas. Enjoy! :)

Just Texas
Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Rainbow, Texas 76077
Sweet Home, Texas 77987
Comfort, Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530

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I'm sitting back and enjoying the current war controversy opinionated discussion over at little_details .  The original poster's question is, basically, If a guy back on a hypothethical earth roughly equivalent to 10,000 B.C. gets his legs mauled by a Big Nasty Animal, will his wounds get infected, and how likely/survivable is amptuation?

Until comment #10, the ( Read more... )