Janie Pate helps rescue a stray dog in Mobile, AL.
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How many of you have found yourself reading the newspaper (people still do this?) or your news website of choice and run across an article that just doesn’t surprise you one bit, no matter how atrocious it may be? Now, I’ll admit, there are news stories worse than the one I am about to mention, but this one just got to me. Let me give you a snippet from the article: 75% Of Latest Bank Of America Bailout Used To Pay Merrill Lynch Bonuses Yes, well, you probably thought that that cash would be used to bolster the bank’s capital or something. (We know you weren’t dumb enough to think it might have been used to make loans). This aggravates me to no end, as it embodies the fleecing of America to the utmost. I have no solutions… just venting… Happy New Year everyone! I say that with as much optimism as I can muster. The holidays as relaxing as they were hectic. We got to visit with our families, celebrate with friends, and spend some quality time with our daughter. As we closed out 2008, we realized that we ended it on a good note. Entering 2009 has been a mixed bag. I, for one, am thankful to have a wonderful little girl who is, apparently, enamored with me. Thankful to have a loving wife and family. And, thanks to this morning, thankful to be working. I am saddened that some of my friends have gotten laid-off. The poor economic times had not yet knocked on my door. Now, I am aware of the trying times. I don’t know what changes this will lead to, but I am sure that we will be hunkering down a bit. No more diamond-studded swimming pools for us. No more opulent dinners in Tahiti over the weekends. Anyway, to our friends, good luck. To our families, we love you. To our pets, stop peeing on the carpet! More photographic evidence of the Birthday Bonanza!
Brandy and I invited several folks over to the house this weekend to celebrate our birthdays. It was a lot of fun and a big thanks to everyone who came out for the shenanigans. We fired up the grill and pulled out the drinks for all of our guests. However, I completely underestimated the amount of food I had planned to cook. We planned for 2 hamburgers a person as well as corn on the cob and roasted potatoes. MLONF brought along additional hamburgers as well as chicken. Now, I do not have a small grill, but let’s say it took me 45 minutes to an hour to cook all the food on the grill. We had three varieties of hamburgers:
For our 17 guests, we ended up with 35+ hamburgers, 12 chicken legs, 16 ears of corn, and 4 small pans of potatoes. This does not include the pasta salads, barbecue weenies, fruit salads, and desserts. Needless to say, we ate well. Speaking of cake, Christian baked us a special Birthmeh Cake.
Whitehowler took pictures over yesterdays geocache adventure. Take a look: Today, I decided to go on an adventure during lunch. I, along with 2 fellow co-workers, decided to find a geocache that was hidden along the Cahaba River behind our office building. For those of you unfamiliar with geocaching, it is very much like a treasure hunt, only instead of treasure, you are looking for a cache of trinkets or a log book. To find these caches, you use GPS coordinates to make your way to the general location and then scavenge to find the cache. Continue reading Geocaching – The Beginning This one slipped past my radar. The new seven wonders of the world, as voted upon by the technologically-enhanced members of the world, are:
Hit up the following link for more details: New 7 wonders of the world named Over at MSN.com, there is an article details 10 secrets of the grocery industry that they’d rather you not think about. Most of it is common sense, but it’s interesting to have it spelled out for you. 10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know – MSN Health & Fitness 9. The salad bar can make you sick. Raw produce at the salad bar, pre-made salads at the deli counter and other pre-cooked prepared foods all have the potential for harboring harmful bacteria (like E. coli, salmonella and Norovirus). “The biggest contributors to unsafe food are foods that are held at unsafe temperatures, handling of food by individuals with poor hygiene, and refilling partially used containers of perishable food with fresh food,†says Michael Doyle, Ph.D., director of the Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement at University of Georgia. This is something that I have just failed to think about when I walk through the deli section. Ugh… Anyway, give this article a read and just keep some of these things in mind. As more is revealed about this situation, the more concerned I am. There’s not much I can do about it, but concerned I remain. CNN is the latest news outlet reporting on the missing bees. An alarming statistic — 25% of the US bee population has vanished. That’s a lot of bees… and considering they pollinate a grand majority of US crops, this is huge. Continue reading Lack of Bees is “Biggest General Threat” to US Food Supply |
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