Everyone loves a good popsicle, but everyone also hates the sticky goo you get on your hands if it’s not eaten fast enough.
Lifehacker passes along a simple solution for everyone, that may come in super handy with all the church VBSs coming up soon.
Slide the wooden stick of an ice pop through a coffee filter so your hands stay mess-free.
Wa-lah! Save yourself some fuss with a bag full of coffee filters this summer.
A Fat Rant.
A family friend seems to be making it pretty big on YouTube. Joy Nash was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight for her YouTube video, Fat Rant. Over 775,000 views. Not bad.
From my mom:
Have you seen the video on the web called Fat Rant? It has created quite a stir. The creator and star in it happens to be Joy Nash. Do you remember her. Perhaps you were too young when they moved to California. Anyway, her dad was best man in our wedding. We were watching Entertainment Tonight last night, and they showed part of the video and interviewed her. Almost at the end it hit me….Joy Nash…..could it be? I hadn’t seen her in years (she was just a little girl when they moved), but she was the right age for the Joy I knew and looked like pictures I’d seen. Fred called John, her dad, and sure enough, it was her.
Checked out her website, and this is actually how I remember her (I think we might have even had this pic on our fridge at one point):
Jack Kevorkian aka Dr Death, claims that he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides. He’s been in prison for the last eight years and was released today, still believing people have the right to die.
I read elsewhere that he’ll still fight for the right to die, but legally. We’ll wait and see.
So a funny thing happened to me at work yesterday.
I work in a middle office, between the main front office and the shop in the back. There are no windows in my office, other than one between me and the commissioner’s office and the blinds usually remain closed, and the windows in the door leading into the shop.
Since I’ve been here, one of the light fixtures has been out. The bulbs have been no good.
Yesterday morning, the other fixture across the room started flickering. Then around 10 a.m. Blink.
Pitch black. No light other than what was flickering off my computer monitor.
Luckily I was about to head out to map more bridges and culverts in the precinct, but it was a bit of a downer for a few minutes there.
And thank goodness Eddie came to save the day. He brought six new six foot bulbs today and so now my office is as bright as daylight. And now that my office is as bright as the sun, its time to head out again.
So who knew you’re supposed to get extra dressed up for an evening wedding? Yeah. Not me either.
But apparently you do and apparently I don’t have anything that falls into that category.
I do have a black suit jacket, but the back of the pants were ripped at a CWF show a while back. I’ve worn it with another pair of slacks as well, but honestly I don’t know what happened to them.
So tonight Laurie and I are going to a wedding and I think it hit her mid-week that I didn’t have anything to wear to this fancy evening wedding.
We’ve been to one other wedding together and I thought what I wore was nice…
Oops wrong photo.
But the pants I’m wearing in that photo are just a bit too faded now. So the Dockers are out.
Anyways, Laurie went on her own and bought me several new shirts out of the blue on Wednesday as well as some new jeans and slacks. She’s awesome.
But while I can wear 36-34 in jeans, 36-34 in slacks tends to be another story. I can’t even button them.
So last night we went back and returned the slacks and went to Kohls to look for some new ones.
Apparently I know nothing about color coordination because I was ready to just buy a new pair of black slacks to go with the navy blue/baby blue stripped shirt. Apparently that’s a no-no.
You also can’t wear navy blue with brown slacks. To be honest, I’m not sure why stores sell navy blue anything because it doesn’t go with anything. Oh well.
Luckily my life is pretty good at keeping up with What Not to Wear so after a good deal of searching and a couple different attempts, we found the perfect outfit that we both liked.
I told my mom it’s a good thing I’m married, because I probably would have shown up at the wedding in Dockers and a polo shirt if not jeans and a polo shirt.
Granted, I also probably wouldn’t be going to the wedding if I wasn’t married either ;-).
I love you baby. Thanks for being patient with my ignorance.
Oh and for Laurie’s take on the shopping experience, be sure and read her blog.
And we’re going camping after the wedding tonight – so pray for NO rain. Thanks.
As reported yesterday, German beer prices are on the rise as more German farmers are growing biofuel crops rather than barley and hops.
Last night my dad told me that Paul Harvey reported that Mexican farmers are burning their blue agave, which is used for tequila, in order to keep up with US demand for corn/ethanol.
(interesting sidenote on the generation gap – I go to the web and blogs for my news, my dad gets most of his from Paul Harvey)
From Treehugger/Reuters:
The switch to corn will contribute to an expected scarcity of agave in coming years, with officials predicting that farmers will plant between 25 percent and 35 percent less agave this year to turn the land over to corn. “Those growers are going after what pays best now,” said Ismael Vicente Ramirez, head of agriculture at Mexico’s Tequila Regulatory Council….
Many growers have started to abandon the crop in favor of corn, whose price has rocketed in line with massive growth in U.S. demand for ethanol after President Bush outlined targets last year to use the corn-based fuel as a gasoline alternative.
All this talk of ethanol reminds me of a great episode from the West Wing – “King Corn.” Mmm the West Wing. Can television get any better?
With all the rush to make alternative fuels – why don’t we just burn beer and tequila in our cars ;-)?
I had a friend use everclear in his motorcycle once. He was short on gas money. He said it ran amazing for two full days. Even shot fire out the tailpipe when he accelerated fast.
The downside was it ran so clean and hot that it froze his entire engine up by the end of the second day.