Leaving tonight for a couple of days. It’s my annual duty appearance at my brother’s house. He always hosts the family’s Thanksgiving dinner. He is the only one in the family with a nice house big enough to accommodate everyone, and his wife is a decent cook. She tries to do all the traditional foods, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. and won’t let anyone help her in the kitchen. So, all I have to do is drive 8 hours and sit around drinking white wine with the family the entire day at my brother’s house. If it wasn’t for the white wine I wouldn’t be able to tolerate that much time with those freaks. But, you knew that.
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On the Road for a Free Dinner
November 24, 2011 // Posted in Eats and Drinks, Life, Thoughts (Tags: anyone, kitchen, wine) | Comments Off
Signature Dish
November 16, 2011 // Posted in Eats and Drinks, Friends, Thoughts (Tags: asked, cook, loves, things) | Comments Off
This girl was visiting and hanging out and talking about various things and I started getting really annoyed with her. She was trying so hard to impress everyone, bragging about all these things she can do. She likes crafts, she goes waterskiing and snow skiing, she has a fancy car – although I personally cannot stand Monte Carlos – and she likes to cook.
So, I asked her about cooking, just to make conversation. She says that she’s been cooking since she was 10 years old and loves being in the kitchen. So, I asked her is he “signature dish”? In my book, everyone who really loves to cook has one or two things that are their “old faithful.” They know how to cook it without reading a recipe and its tried and true. I believe the chef’s professional term for it is “signature dish.” She looked at, puzzled. I explained what the term meant and asked her what is hers? She shrugged and said that she doesn’t really have one – she just loves trying new recipes and everything always seems to turn out good.
Liar.
Handicapped Parking
October 14, 2011 // Posted in Life, Thoughts (Tags: challenged, disorders, etc, getting, handicapped) | Comments Off
Do they call it handicapped parking spots anymore? The whole politically correct way of talking about people with disabilities, disorders, handicapped, challenged, etc. is getting too hard to keep up with.
Getting Real Tired of the Shit
September 13, 2011 // Posted in Life, Politics, Thoughts (Tags: collector, job, nothing, shit) | Comments Off
When did my job turn into this? I’m nothing but a shit collector around here. Enough!
Hate the New WordPress Dashboard
August 8, 2011 // Posted in Blogs, Thoughts (Tags: dashboard, editor, log, post, text) | Comments Off
Although WordPress is free and has a lot of great features, I totally HATE the new dashboard. It used to be fast and easy to log in as an administrator and write a new post. Now it take three times longer to get through the log in process and access the text editor to write a new post. How stupid! Who on earth thought that removing the “new post” button from the dashboard was a good idea?
