Got married, fixing to move north. Winter's coming. Starting to have ski dreams.

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Dear Distant Cousins in the Southern Hemisphere:
Please stop using *my last name*@gmail.com as your fauxmail account.
Thanks.
Love,
Rawdogue

Not exactly sure where B got the recipe but they are very good! More of an appetizer than a meal, but still very tasty ( Read more... )

Things I'm grateful for this week:

The Annoying Set Piece That Must be Replaced(TM) broke before opening night.
Ants hate Bon Ami.
My car was on the outside when the garage door broke. (Also, that those huge springs aren't as expensive as they look.)
Friend S wasn't up for a bike ride at 5:30 either.

We brewed for the first time in probably seven months. Here's hoping. I bought the hops in Portland last month, so I know they'll add awesomeness, at least ( Read more... )

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

At first it was a minor annoyance but now it's bordering on an insane outburst. Why are semi-educated people so adverse to using the word "me"!? People around here, trying to sound intelligent but still very unclear on the concept of the personal pronoun, have taken to using "myself" in its place. It was bad enough, and I'd cringe, at the ( Read more... )

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Local NPR announcer accidently(?) said, "John Asscrap"... and quickly corrected himself.