what’s in the kitchen?

Attempted reconstruction of earlier entry, lost to some sort of sunspot activity.

back to writing in notepad, beofre posting… at least on the more unstable systems.

My Sweetie’s doing pretty well, good news on what’s been distressing her lately, and she got my prezzies in the mail. 🙂 (A Newtie-baby form of a Furby, and a copy of Cider House Rules. I hope the subject matter isn’t too rough for her delicate sensitivites, but the writing is quite good.)

Got some tasty food this weekend. (a lot of semi-healthy foodles)

Currently in stock, in my larder, cupboard and fridge – (I’ve got to stop eating out all the time)

croissants (bakery fresh. yum. I’ll miss living as close as I do)
loaf of french bread
1/2 jar of peanut butter
lots of natural orange blossom honey
lots of natural clover honey
a few fresh Bananners
a frozen bag of raspberries (sheesh, can you tell I have a sweet tooth yet?)
a bag of freezerpops
bag of rice, designed to last for eternity (it’s crazy big, but dry rice lasts for ages, right?)
canned sweet peas
canned beans (not as good as dried, and soaked, but I’m a lazy-boy)
fresh broccoli (going to polish those guys off tonight, with dip)
olive oil
garlic tobasco
regular tobasco
hawaiian hot sauce
canned corn
flax (to sprinkle on everything)
veggie dogs
dog buns
mustard
katsup
sweet relish
soy sauce
cinnamin life cereal
cookie crisp ceral
rice dream (better tasting on cereal than milk, really.)
mozzarella cheese
saltines
A nearly demolished gallon of OJ (I drink it like water)
2 gallons of water
Diet Rite orange soda
Cran-apple
4 bottles of hard lemonade
bean & cheese freezer-to-nuke burritos (that have been ther forever… eep)
a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. (that won’t live very long)

welcome to sunny florida (monsoon season!)

Monday: Sunny. High near 86F. Winds E to SE 5 to 10 mph.
Monday evening: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms. Low around 76F. Light E to SE winds. Chance of precipitation 30%.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. High near 86F. Winds E 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50%.
Tuesday evening: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms. Low around 77F. Winds E to NE 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 30%.
Wednesday: Thunderstorm (Hi:87 Lo:77)
Thursday: Thunderstorm (Hi:87 Lo:77)
Friday: Thunderstorm (Hi:89 Lo:77)
Saturday: Thunderstorm (Hi:89 Lo:77)
Sunday: Thunderstorm (Hi:89 Lo:77)

Word of the Day, and Evil News

interlard in-tur-LARD, transitive verb:
To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.

Interlard comes from Middle French entrelarder, from Old
French, from entre, “between” (from Latin inter-) + larder, “to lard,” from larde, “lard,” from Latin lardum. The original sense of the word, now obsolete, was “to place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.”

evil news-

McVeigh Execution Items Too Gruesome For Ebay
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A man hawking copies of Timothy McVeigh’s death certificate and handwritten last statement was booted off an Internet auction site after users thought his sale was too gruesome.

School Trips Banned Amid Child Slave Panic
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Burkina Faso ordered the suspension of school trips to Ivory Coast for fear that its children could be picked up as suspected slaves. Ivory Coast, facing criticism over the use of forced child labor on its cocoa plantations, has been repatriating hundreds of young people from Burkina Faso believed to be victims of a trade in child slaves.

Black Leaders Get Wacky!
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Some black politicians and civil rights activists refuse to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag, calling it a symbol of slavery and racial oppression. “This flag represents the former colonies that enslaved our ancestors,” says Tennessee state Rep. Henri Brooks. “And when this flag was designed, they did not have [black people] in mind.”

Save the Children… So We Can Have Sex With Them.
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Nicholas Morency, 30, of Villas is the first person prosecuted in New Jersey for violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.His 30-month prison sentence, however, also covers an unrelated offense, the possession of thousands of items of child pornography. Under federal sentencing guidelines, the child pornography offense is more serious and had the effect of giving Morency concurrent time for the Internet offense.

Visit Hawaii Before Its Too Late and They Are Too Old
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Support is building at the State Capitol for an effort to override Gov. Ben Cayetano’s veto of a bill to raise the age when minors can legally consent to having sex. Hawaii’s present age of consent is 14, the youngest in the nation, and the bill would have raised the age to 16. In cases where 14- and 15-year-olds have consensual sex with a person who is at least five years older, the bill called for adult offenders to face up to 20 years in prison.

The Best Slaves Are Chinese Slaves
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When a man offered Feng Chenyun temporary work in another city, she jumped at the chance. Barely literate and desperately poor, Ms. Feng had two children, 10 and 16, and it was nearly impossible to scrape together school fees from her small plot of rice and rape seed.

Her husband was working as a migrant laborer 1,000 miles away, in Guangdong Province. At 37, she had never left her county in Sichaun Province and was feeling restless.

“I went with him because he was offering me work,” she said, recounting from her small dark home the start of a tale that still brings tears three years later. “I just wanted to get out and earn a bit of money.”

Instead, Ms. Feng was kidnapped, drugged, placed on a train and sold for about $1,500 as a bride to a brick maker in faraway Xinjiang Province — becoming one of the tens if not hundreds of thousands of poor Chinese women who are sold on a black market each year.