OUCH! And here we were, wishing Charm City Cakes was closer to us so we could have them make our wedding cake. Just wondering what he’d charge to drive one out here like he did with the Hogwart’s cake a few months ago. But he’d have to deliver it wearing nothing more than a jockstrap. Well, he can wear clothes while driving.
What? We’re getting married, not cast into a monastery. 
Yes, it’s much nicer in England, according to her. I haven’t re-read The Bl;ue Sword in a couple of years. I should haul it out.
I hope you feel better very soon, Pie.
He’s a very interesting character. Extremely strong-willed and loud, really big guy, social worker (mostly works with street kids), former street kid, who’s always borderline trying to argue us back from being Catholic. I don’t mind long-winded theological debate, although I don’t think it generally gets anywhere. And it’s good that I don’t mind, because, oh, 95% of the time, that’s what he wants to talk about.
He gets on a lot of nerves. Fortunately I have nerves of steel. Sometimes.
Quandary- baby needs to sleep every hour and a half, and also go to bed around 7. Baby woke up from last nap at 3:40. Difficult decision- keep raving tired kid up two and a half hours? Or bedtime at 7:30-8?
Hm.
I’ve never watched Nigella on tv, but I really like her cookbooks. The very first thing I bought when I started working at a bookstiore was How To Eat, which is worth it just for her steamed chocolate pudding that you cook in the microwave and takes ten minutes. And contains chocolate, eggs, heavy cream, butter,and a little bit of flour.
And a lot of good this has done me so far… 
When are you planning to visit Tel-Aviv, again? 
Heathen! Unbeliever!! You shall be punished for this blaphemy!!!
… but since you were being nice to me, I’ll agree to let you choose the punishment, and to administer it myself 
Oh, and about your meeting – I think I was in that meeting too. Or one very much like it. About once a week for the last ten years :rolleyes:
I hate flowcharts, though – even xkcd not withstanding. you can keep those!
Ivory – I don’t cook much, but I’m pretty geeky
Woo hoo, home from work, and today is my Firday!
I forgetted to congratulate Gotti, so belated congrats to the happy couple.
Tomorrow I’ll be out and about to Whole Foods, looking for the Norweigan goat cheese called gjetost (pronounced “get toast”), then off to Trader Joe’s, which I haven’t visited in a while, to get coffee beans and some other goodies like that Tandoori Naan. And of course there will be some chocolate along the way.
Hullo. I’m here. I came home and assisted the demolition in progress - I should go take some pics. Then my daughter and I made a dump run to get rid of the demolished sheet rock and some scrap wood and some other stuff. Then we got home and I sent her to fetch pizza, which we are devouring right now.
This weekend will be spent finishing demolition and starting the framing process. I’ll try to remember to take pics of the progress.
Welcome, Zed! Everyone else, step away from the chocolate!!!
C’mon Firday!
You could learn…
Taxi I love the yarn in the second picture. What is it?
Almost quit o’clock… yay!
zooms back out
The Guy came over for a few hours. I am absolutely exhausted.
I love Nigella, but she does overdo the erotic aspect of food just a wee bit.
I think my first ever post on the Dope was about how I’d shag a herd of diseased yaks for white chocolate. I really can’t remember the context though.
Sigh, you and me both… you and me both. 
::Sneaks in to steal chocolate. Heads out to garden::
[QUOTE=swampbear]
Alton Brown is the only nerd type I would lick from head to toe. It’s one of my secret shames. /QUOTE]
gotti, I’ve got 20 bucks to pitch in if you can get him to modify his route to include Arkansas! 
I like chocolate, but don’t eat it all that often. I have a huge, unopened bag of Hershey’s Kisses if anyone likes those. I’ll leave them and take a couple of nibbles of the dark chocolate.
Just got off work, and have to get to bed at a decent hour tonight, because I have a doctor’s appointment at 9AM tomorrow. Stupid prostate still isn’t better. (swampy has not followed through on his promise to check it out for me…) My appointment is with a different doctor from the same practice that I normally see, so we’ll see how my visit goes. I hate having new doctors.
See, there should be no shame in wanting to lick Alton Brown from top to bottom. Thoroughly. In fact, probably twice just to make sure no spots were missed the first time.
Then again, I grew up Catholic. I used up my shame quota by age 10, so these days I’m pretty much shame-less. snerk
Lunch, I can take any kind of punishment you can dish out. Everyone knows you white chocolate junkies are total wimps, after all.
Ice cream will be here soon…
Just to gross y’all out - dinner tonight is chicken livers, with cheesy noodles and spinach.
I just saw that Harvey Korman died.
Well, now you’ve gone and got you resident MMP digger working.
Food preferences that people think make them superior
Herd of wah?! :eek:
Next time I see tdn I will have to ask him about this particular choice of words.
And you didn’t make your next collection of posts until April of 2005. Once you post you cannot hide.
What the heck is a bishounen? 
A pretty young boy in Japanese anime.
Yeah, I was shy about posting until I started posting in the MMP.
This makes me sad. I loved him in the Carol Burnett Show. All those times he just barely contained his laughter when Tim Conway ad-libbed…
Hey - check it out - I made the poster! Too bad I’m not doing the show this year.
Evenin’ everyone. I just skimmed because we’re getting ready to go work out at the Y again.
Y’all can have the milk and white chocolate. Hand over the dark chocolate please.
Not too much going on here in ol’ Taterville. Just the usual…work and homelife.
Oooh! Better dash, our friend is due to arrive any moment now.