Monthly Archives: July 2003

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Groceries!

Restocked Freezer!

Grocery fun facts –

  • Publix’s Top Selling Snack – Pringles Original, 7oz.
  • On average, there are eight peas in a pod.
  • Olive oil is made only from green olives.
  • The cashew is part of a fruit called a “cashew apple” that grows in tropical regions. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
  • On the average, each American consumes 117 pounds of potatoes, 116 pounds of beef, 100 pounds of fresh vegetable, 80 pounds of fresh fruit, and 286 eggs per year.
  • On the Italian Riviera in Viareggio, there is a culinary tradition that a good soup must always contain one stone from the sea. This stems from the days when an Italian fisherman’s catch was scooped up in nets; fish and stones frequently ended up together in the same cooking pot.

Hmm.. The bakery didn’t finish the key lime pie for delivery. Ah well… such is life. I’ll get some next time.

Hotty-hot day today, clear skies. I hope that’ll make fireworks that much nicer for the throngs of beachgoers tomorrow… though if recent history is any indicator, it’ll rain.

Bloggers Gain Libel Protection

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Ok, we’re making progress. I’ve got a prescription for a foot brace to build up some strength there, and a MRI.

Let’s hope Workman’s Comp stays Johnny on the spot. I’d like that to be scheduled swiftly. I’ll start pestering them on Monday.

I’ve picked up my new cheapskate phone, and it seems to do the job well enough. it’ll make for a good spare when the new one arrives.

Had a nice day today, though there’s a tiny headache seed in my noggin… hopefully it’ll pass before taking bloom.

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Hm… Net meeting was supposed to start at 10am… but nobody seems to be around. I waited until 11, and then sent out an email to the bosses asking if there is a time that we can reschedule for. I have to be at physical therapy by 1:30. (Which I’d forgotten about until my pop-up reminder this morning.) I hope that they missed the meeting due to some groundbreaking discovery that’ll make us all a gazillion dollars.

Golden grahams with marshmallow fudge are not the best breakfast, and it was so rich I could only eat about a 1/2 ounce of it with my cereal. Smores-y good. . I think that riblets will be supper tonight… a little high in sodium, but delicious and otherwise very healthy. Lunch, I don’t know…maybe some green beans and enchiladas. Those things are yummo!

Users on the cartman cluster will be unable to update their journals as we work to repair it. You can find the cluster you are on here. Hm.. It think that’s the first time in local memory that it wasn’t the chef cluster (my cluster)

Talking to Ray, I hear that Austin is supposed to be some sort of Mecca of sanity in the Madness that is Texas. (A large University Town?) Maybe I can get Juliabee to elaborate.

My creepy neighbor commented on stuff that I throw in the dumpster. It’s really none of his business that I like to eat much the same thing every week. Pretty weird that he noticed cans of peas and green beans.

a year ago – wonderful dreams, learning the neighborhood, notes never followed up on.

two years ago – saw Ornj off on her trip, bro’s got a win 95 box, monkey fishing a fib, due amici sub, leaves of grass, database link access to web, Kneel before zod!

three years ago -nuthin’.