Here is an idea...........

everyone should take a picture of these items in their homes.....and send them to me via email..then I will post them anonymously with control number I.D.'s and everyone will have to guess who is who. now to make it manageable and easy for me...we just do one selection a week...and I pick week one to be the computer wiring under/behind or along side your desk or work area at home.

Valuable Information learnt

If you are too tired or lazy to make real sausage and gravy.....you need to hop your ass down to the grocery store and buy Campbell's Country Style Sausage Gravy. This stuff has real sausage and decent gravy. You can throw it on biscuits or grits and it is very good.

But don't look for this stuff in the soup section at the store. Where do you think they hide it? Well, slide on down the aisle to the sauce section. The shelf where they have all those different dry mixes in packages...like hollandaise , chili, brown gravy, or Bearnaise.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

I learnt that you can get the complete series of DVD's from the library... for lots of HBO tv shows........and watch the first 5 shows of the 4th season and laugh out loud.

Oh Happy Days!............Maybe

There is a bill in the Colorado legislature now that will allow

Sunday liquor retail sales. It received initial approval from the Senate without debate Friday. (SB82, by Sen. Jen Veign D-Denver) The bill would eliminate a 40 year-old prohibition against Sunday sales of full strength beer and liquor as of Nov. 1.

If it receives final approval Monday, it will move onto the House.

Colorado grocery and convenience stores are against it because they still can't sell full strength beer and wine.

I have my fingers crossed.

Stuff I wish I'd learnt 5 years ago.....

Austin Half Marathon

Found this link online. A full run through of the course. The camera doesn't quiet do the hills justice but nonetheless if you're interested to see how far I ran without stopping... take a gander at this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blj8ar2rvhM

I learnt I can spend all day in the kitchen in Colorado

Hey it tastes better than it looks. Brunswick stew cooked 12 hours.

Pork Loin with potatoes, carrots, onions and celery

Learnt this weekend.

learnt two things this weekend:

1. even if you don't make much money, you still have to pay uncle sam income taxes.

2. if you buy a whole bunch of chicken wings on sale at target on saturday and are at home watching the daytona 500 on TV and start eating chicken wings at the very beginning of the race, around 12:30 PM, and eat till it is over, around 5 hours later, you are going to be really really stuffed.

Rob has these animation talents....

Saturday Songs

W.W.J.D.

It's Friday ....

I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too, Thursday i don't care about you - It's friday i'm in love. Monday you can fall apart, Tuesday Wednesday break my heart, Thursday doesn't even start It's friday i'm in love.

Gulfport....

"Come for the lifestyle; stay for a lifetime."
This morning I learnt that this was the slogan for Westminster Shores as I listened to their message while on hold waiting to wish Jill a happy FORTIETH birthday! We agreed that it was a nicer slant than the roach motel variety of "residents check in but they don't check out." Anyway, I thought it would be a nice slogan for Gulfport - or at least the village.

Amaretto

I learnt that Ameretto is 28% alcohol by volume................

Gulfport

Is Gulfport Hip and Happening or what?

T-Minus 7 days 14 hours... 9 minutes...

First Course....

2nd Course....

Dessert....

I learnt a new line...

This morning, while listening to NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me" game show, one of the celebrities delivered a great line. He said:
"I can't believe it's the year of the rat; I'm still writing 'monkey' on my checks."
You know I'm going to be looking for an opportunity to work that line into a conversation - perhaps just in one of those "time flies" or "where does the time go?" kind of conversations as I do NOT write checks.

New Knowledge learnt on Saturday morning

I was reading the paper this morning and came across a new word for me: pogies. Apparently, some of these crazy coloradians feel the need to fit their bike handlebars with insulated wind-proof fabric hoods called pogies or moose mitts. This lets the rider wear thin gloves to grip the handlebars. And a few paragraphs down, I learnt that these same people often buy studded snow tires for their bikes.

I would like to see another venn diagrahm on the universe of people who: 1. own pogies 2. have studded winter bike tires 3. have ran out of bike accessories to spend money

One of my 15 minutes..........

Have you had any near brushes with fame

in your journey down life's highways?

I offer one of my many : the time I was on the cover of AARP magazine.

A Different Drummer

Last night, Vic and I went to see Sandra Bernhardt speak - and sing! - at CC with our friend HoBag. I learned from Sandra that "you can find inspiration anywhere." I also learned that I wish I'd continued playing the drums. If I had, I might have become really good, and I too could be on stage.

Polvo's Law of Blah Blah Blah

Last night I learnt that when your wife tells you to go pick up a prescription from Walgreens, “the Walgreens next to blah blah blah” – that you should actually listen to the “blah blah blah” part so you don’t end up going to the wrong Walgreens and picking the slowest of the two drive through lanes, spend 40 minutes in the slowest LINE ON EARTH only to find out that you went to the wrong Walgreens and that it will take them another 30-40 minutes to transfer the prescription to this Walgreens “if you’d like to wait sir?” um. no thanks – but you decide instead to drive to the other (Correct) Walgreens and pick the lane that “appears” to be moving quicker – but happens to be the 2nd (farthest) lane from the pickup window and the lady doesn’t want to send the prescription (Tamiflu) through the tube-through-the-ceiling-delivery-system because the bottles are glass and could brake. So then you realize you should have worn shoes and some decent attire (even though that’s why you went to the drive through in the first place!) because she’s going to suggest that you get out of your car and walk up to the first drive through window and stand there in your socks while the car in “that lane” kinda wonders why your standing there squeezed between their car and the pick up window, with your butt in their window in socks, shorts, and a hooded Bronco sweatshirt - (see also: Unibomber). And you’re so mad after spending nearly 1.5 hours to pick up a prescription that you want to give someone a piece of your mind but you certainly can’t express frustration to your wife because, and rightfully so, she told your where to go in the first place - and then when she points this out you'll likely say "Blah blah blah".

Groundhog / Gumbo Day

Yesterday, Victor went out to eat gumbo at the Mumbo Gumbo Festival in Manitou. He did not see his shadow, but I think we're still going to have at least 6 more weeks of this cold weather. So I think we're going to learn that you can't believe vermin.