Happy Birthday Jesus. Still going strong after two thousand and nine years. Here’s to another couple millennia at least. I hope the Social Security cost of living increases, or lack thereof, don’t hurt you too badly in the coming year. It seems the cost of everything is still high from the past few years except the cost of living. One of those paradoxes of government I suppose. But you’ve had some experience in that area, so I’m preaching to the preacher.
Happy Birthday Jesus – It’s been a while
12/25/2009This is interesting VIII – WordPress Plugins – Shaun Of The Dead – Zombieland
12/22/2009Despite the effects of two small ( I stress the word small) glasses of wine, I managed to install my first WordPress plug-in tonight. To digress, two small glasses of wine never used to have this effect. As a note of caution to the reader, as you age and mature (well more like age, because most of us sure don’t mature), what used to be a pleasurable creative experience becomes a cloud of huhs? and missed keystrokes. At any rate, I’ll use the excuse that my attention has been divided between installing the plug-in and writing about it; with an unbiased viewing of Shaun of the Dead (Comedy Channel – with references to come when I sober up) compared to Zombieland (more references later). As you can tell, the plug-in lost.
The results follow:
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
Both worth a watch, but Zombieland rocks. Double tap.
Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 2 – Cutting Board
12/17/2009Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that a real cook needs. This is the second. See other posts for items 1 (knife) and 3 (knife sharpener).
French Onion Soup – Like it used to be – Famous-Barr
12/07/2009It used to be that people would go to standalone department stores to shop. Call them the old downtown department stores, if you will. Some of these most likely still exist in some of the larger cities. After hours of walking around in these cavernous multi-floor stores, people naturally became hungry. It was the custom that most stores had some sort of cafeteria available where people could stop their empty stomach from talking back, rest their weary feet and most likely, to the store owner’s delight, keep them in the store. In each cafeteria, no matter how average all the other food was, there was usually one specialty that became a must for every shopping trip. This recipe is one of the musts served at the old mid-west Famous-Barr department stores.
Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 1 – Chef’s Knife
12/05/2009Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that a real cook needs. This is the first. See other posts for items 2 (cutting board) and 3 (knife sharpener).
Basic Italian tomato sauce – marinara
11/29/2009Basic tomato sauce marinara
Simple, fast, inexpensive and tastes better than just about anything that can be purchased. A thick rich flavorful tomato sauce that forms the basis of other things Italian. Once you’ve made the sauce here’s a great use for it, lasagna. Although the sauce itself is so good by itself, you’ll need to stop yourself from eating it straight out of the pot.
Shampoo – Not the movie
02/16/2009Spent the weekend shampooing about 1000 sq. ft. of old carpeting. At the end concluded that it didn’t need shampoo. It needed new flooring.
I will say that the Rug Doctor kicked butt. Buy some extra shampoo however, because it’s primary job seems to be to put out and suck back gallons of soapy water on the carpet. About 4 gallons in 10 minutes. But it’s one kickin’ shampooer. Rented from Loew’s.
This is interesting VI (WordPress settings general)
02/14/2009I lied when I said I needed a nap. Setting time, etc., was too simple so I had to write it here. Settings/General on the left hand frame at the bottom. Change away. I also changed the blog name. And yes, it was set to GMT or UTC. Your hard part will be figuring out your offset in hours from GMT. Good luck.
This is interesting V (WordPress date/time)
02/14/2009Last entry for today. I need a nap. My next goal is to figure out why GMT seems to be set as my time?
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This Is Interesting VII (WordPress Comments)
11/29/2009 by steveoWell it’s been about 9 months since I last touched this blog. I would’ve come back sooner if I had known people (the term is used loosely here) had actually left comments. Well it turns out I never knew I was receiving about 2 dozen comments a month. Was I surprised and slightly happy!
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