Friday, April 25, 2008

The barn swallows chatting about something, probably the the fluffy grey cat sitting below on the patio watching them intently.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

The current rounds of Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen have both been on for a while now, but I've been too busy to comment thus far. A few thoughts:

  • WTF moment #1 - On TC, the guy who works at Le Cirque doesn't know that mayonnaise is oil and egg??? Even I know that and I can barely boil water. Why is he still on the show?

  • WTF moment #2 - On HK, "I don't know percentages, but..." Thank God GR threw him off; the guy's too dangerous to be in a kitchen.

  • And where the hell do they find these people on HK? I realize Fox wants GR to explode as much as possible, but come on.

  • Extremely close tie for most annoying on TC: hat guy and crabby chick with eyebrow piercing.

  • Elizabeth Berkeley must have watched a whole lot of Padma in action before she started on the dancing show.

  • What is it with chefs and faux-hawks?


In other news, I've finally identified the birds nesting on my patio as barn swallows and will post a photo of them soon. I had to go buy a bottle of something called Poop-Off because they're making a huge mess on the concrete. I keep meaning to go get a cheap mat to put under the nest that I can just toss later on, but with everything else going on it hasn't happened yet.

New at Big Lots: Cheese Quesadilla Pringles and many, many Golden Compass toys.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008


I finally got a better look at the birds that have been hanging out on the patio. They are small and fluffy and have patches of blue, gray and black. They are certainly adorable and entertaining for the cats, but they also poop a lot.

This extremely interesting day planner (Japanese, of course) is making the rounds of the planner/notebook-obsessive blogs. Seems like something that might work well as an alternative to an Unschedule. I've been procrastinating about actually implementing the Now Habit ideas (ha!), but given all the stuff on my plate that I really need to tackle, I probably ought to give it a go.

Just got back from Austin last night. Nice city, but they have an annoying lack of street signs. I think we got lost every single time we got in the car to go anywhere.

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