May 19, 04 04:54 am — POLITICAL WISDOM FROM SOME VERY WISE PEOPLE...
1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain (1868)
2. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into ...
Oct 20, 03 12:10 am — Okay, so it's kind of a strange journal entry, but I need some input from me MV bruddas and sistas.
The owner of the gourmet shop I work at has the opinion that the website for the shop is (I quote) "an afterthought, ju...
Oct 14, 03 02:18 am — A man walked into the produce section of his local
supermarket, and asked to buy half a head of lettuce.
The boy working in that department told him that they
only sold whole heads of lettuce. The man was
insistent that t...
Aug 07, 03 11:56 pm — I finally have a chance to get to the East coast, something I have never done. Some friends of ours rent a house in Cape Cod every year, and have invited us to come along. We pay for the airfare, and get a room for free, all ...
Jul 29, 03 05:16 pm — Philly has the cheesesteak. Chicago has deep-dish pizza. Florida has their Stone Crabs. And of course, Wisconsin has cheese. I have heard a few here in MV wax poetic about Cincinnati Chili (which is – for those of you u...
Jul 08, 03 02:33 pm — Now that we are tucking into the summer months, there is more great fresh produce available at your local farmer's markets. In order to achieve my self-appointed duties here in Madville, I am posting some good, but easy recip...
May 30, 03 03:05 am — Instead of just letting my Journals pass by without being utilized, I thought I might post some recipes fer y'all so you can take advantage of the great spring produce available at your local Farmers Market.
Almost all cit...
May 20, 03 02:32 am — Did the 'special occasion' Berfday dinner thang tonight, and as always, I wanted to try a new restaurant, one that neither the wife or I have been to. I opted to go to a place called Q's at the Hotel Boulderado. What a great ...
May 09, 03 02:10 am — Food has always held a keen interest with me. I owe it to my Mother, who, as many others who came from the farmlands, was a fantastic cook. An instinctive cook who was never content with written recipes, and had to put her ow...
May 07, 03 04:16 pm — Finally, after a long time (more than I can remember, at least), I am feeling good. Too much on my mind, and all those little quirks that trouble us all in our daily lives. Maybe because the advent of Spring has been creeping...
Apr 30, 03 11:55 pm — Well, I took the job.
Even though I told myself it wasn't what I wanted to do, and that after I had left the corporate world I would never go back.....I caved.
I made a "career decision" to go another direction a few ye...
Apr 29, 03 12:01 am — As promised, here are better pics of our newest, Tamari, as well as our Shiba/Chow mix, Sakura.
There, I'm done rambling about my pooches.
For now....
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Apr 28, 03 03:50 am — We now have a new member of the family. Her name is Tamari, and we adopted her from a local Rescue:
http://http://www.hobocare.com
We had been visiting a lot of the local shelters, seeing many, many great dogs, but our ...