Posts Tagged: Food and Drink
Seeds
Posted by on Sunday, April 1, 2007 in - 3 comments
I set about picking the seeds for the garden this morning. Seeds and even fruiting bushes and trees are the perfect e-commerce product. Neat, compact and modest in price. One of the nice things about some sites is the ability to spend about 50% more - three bucks instead of two - and get the small …
Friday Not Going Postal Chatfest
Posted by on Friday, March 30, 2007 in - 12 comments
An interesting week for we and Canada Post. One day a package that hardly registered for weight within province was taken for posting and the clerk said "eight bucks." "Eight bucks! Forget it. Give it to her next time we visit." On another day, two packages with identical size and identical …
A Trip To The Snowy South
Posted by on Sunday, March 18, 2007 in - 6 comments
A few months to go yet. • A nice bomb down to the great state of Ithaca where we had diner at Moosewood with Gary and Maude as the greatest Charlie Brown snow in history fell outside. I wanted to sing "Hark the Herald" to loo-lo-loo-lo-looooo as roundheaded cartoon kids skated. We split a jug of …
Coffee Handbags
Posted by on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 in - 2 comments
Science has cut to the heart of a matter very dear to my heart...but even dearer to my brain: • “University of Bristol researchers say the caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms which build up overnight, but does not make people more alert than normal. The work, presented to the British Nutrition …
Friday Bullet Points In Absentia
Posted by on Thursday, February 22, 2007 in - 7 comments
I write this Thursday with no idea when I will be able to click the toggle from hide to unhide. One of my favorite things about my personal blog interface is the use of physical toggles and the other sorts of knobs and buttons one might see on a ship's console in a rerun of the 1970s episodes of …
Tom Whitehead Plays Chicky's!
Posted by on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 in - 3 comments
Tom gave me one of my favorite moments in 2006: I walk into a bar/restaurant in another country and as I do the guy playing piano turns around and shouts "Hey! It's Al!". Tome sent out an email to let me know that he's on the 88's tomorrow night. Go wouldja: • “Hey! Those of you who didn't go …
Haiku For February
Posted by on Monday, February 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
“Hot black elixer. • Canadian Tire machine. • Monday morning dawns.”
Early-Mid-February-Friday-Chat-a-Rama
Posted by on Friday, February 9, 2007 in - 14 comments
What can I say? It is mid-February which ought to be named something else. Like bleaksville or un-summer. Nearby Oswego - where we go - is getting hammered with snow this week (over 80 inches so far this week) and we sit north of them hoping the snow band doesn't flick north again. • I have …
Saturday In The States
Posted by on Saturday, February 3, 2007 in - leave a comment
It's Brewfest Day - CNY brewfest that is. Brewfestia. I trust you got all the Brewfestia presents you wanted and that you'll be singing all your favorite Brewfestia carols. Back for Superbowl Sunday. • Update: The results are in.
The Final Bullet Point Chat For 2006
Posted by on Friday, December 29, 2006 in - 80 comments
It's here. The last Friday of 2006. Like most, I hate New Year's Eve due to one or two nights of the bad party. Now I plan nothing and always get my way. Once many years ago - for reasons I can't get into and I can't really recall - I ate about five servings of fried clams and shot plastic dart …
