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Two North Carolinians poke fun at South Carolina.

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(Via my niece on Facebook.)

Back from my nieces wedding in California... Pics and narrative soonish, have to get the house ready for a visit from the parental units.

Interesting quote seen on a game related forum:

"Did you ever realize that Frankenstein and My Fair Lady are the same story? One ends happily and the other doesn't."

OK, the rest of you can laugh too... :)


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As $DIETY is my witness, I'll never again by choice live in a house with white or cream colored carpet, or any related color known to man.

Warning: this link NSFW!

Aliens, Old People & One Hot Model

A fascinating intersection of media, well worth taking a look.

Source: NOTCOT.ORG A blog of sorts about media and design.

My pictures from this years June Faire, mostly culinary guild activities but with two from the woodworking demo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31736686@N00/sets/72157619411822883/detail/

It's so much more efficient to post a link to the Flickr set than to mess with posting them here, so please visit and comment here or there.

A quote sited elsewhere and almost snarkworthy and decidedly appropriate after a discussion on bunnyfur and chainmail bikini's I overheard at the Faire this weekend..

I love your outfit, does it come in your size?

Nineteen years ago today...

Well, not quite the right lyrics but everything else is oh so right... Nineteen years ago today, in what must have been a fit of insanity on her part, Brenda showed up and we had a bit of wedding.

Thank you my love for being in my life!

Mmmmm.... A warm sunny day, my finger is now in a regular bandage so I can use my hands almost without restriction, an afternoon in my shop working with Matt on his projects....

And I just finished a handful of the chocolate chip cookies Brenda is making for a potluck tomorrow with a tall cold glass of milk.

Life is good.

I haven't posted a Musical Monday in a while, but this one I couldn't resist. For some reason, Roger Whittaker was on my mind this weekend so I headed to You Tube to search him out, and found this gem.

Roger Whittaker sings "The Last Farewell" with Chet Atkins backing him up on guitar!



They just don't make 'em like they used to.

Yeah, I know, I have bizarre and varied musical tastes.

Two blondes are walking down the street. One notices a compact on the sidewalk and leans down to pick it up. She opens it, looks in the mirror, and says, "Hmm, this person looks familiar.... " She hands it to the second blonde. The second blonde looks in the mirror and says, "You dummy! It's me!"

I bet Ralph and Ellen, and probably others of my friends, are really familiar with this one:


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Mmmm... Love the approach of spring! Among other things, that means BBQ! I've been especially anticipating this one as we bought a smoker over the winter.

Yesterday, pulled it out and smoked some country ribs: Here they are ready to come out of the smoker, be wrapped in foil, and finished in the oven:



After an hour in the oven and an hour resting:



I almost couldn't cut them - they just wanted to pull apart.

I rough chopped 'em, tossed 'em with some Lexington Style dip* and served 'em forth with corn on the cob, grits, a green salad, and sweet tea. Except for the corn, country culinary heaven! (We bought frozen corn, bad, bad idea. We'll do without if fresh isn't available next time.

*That's North Carolina for 'sauce', kinda. Lexington style sauce is thin and vinegar/ketchup based, not the thicker and/or sweeter stuff found elsewhere.

hrollaug offered to teach a 'Intro to Turning' class, and being interested in turning I signed up... I spent Sunday afternoon in his shop under his (very!) patient tutelage, and without any bloodshed and a minimum of cursing made a simple mallet:



Thanks Ralph!

You Are Baseball Games

You like old fashioned things. You're one of those people who values tradition. You enjoy a slow pace of life. You believe that life is all about enjoying every moment. You love the changing of the seasons, and you look forward to what each season brings. You are smart and a bit obsessive. You become very immersed in your interests.

A white St Patrick's Day?

Seriously, this has to be the weirdest winter in the twenty plus years I've lived here.

(This is Ralph's cue to search the web and prove me wrong...)

This LOLCat showed up in my feed today and seems appropriate...


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<rant>

What's the point of having nine different brands of ice cream when they only provide a selection of the same five or six flavors?

</rant>

Yesterday on the way home from Lowes, the van started slipping in and out of gear, so I crawled it over to the dealer today... Just got off the phone with him, and the tranny is in seriously bad shape and will cost about $3K to repair.

At least it waited and did this on 13th on Sun rather than on I5 on Saturday!