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Monday, 27 May 2013

Pineapple flambé

Often you don't know when something happens for the last time. The last time you go into a store or cafe. The last time you see someone. You say see you soon, but then for some reason that just never happens. Often when I see updates from old friends on Facebook, I realise I can't remember the last time we saw each other and if it was a goodbye or a see you soon moment. Obviously, I hope I will be seeing many of them in the future, maybe by mistake or maybe intentionally. But then there are also times when you know you are doing something for the last time. Like the last day at work. You know you are walking over to the cafeteria for the last time, you give your last presentation, you say those awkward goodbyes because you don't quite know what to say. My wonderful colleagues made my last day at work very lovely by joining me for a nice pub lunch, and I was also showered with gifts and flowers. Had I known you get this much presents for leaving, I would have done it sooner! Naah, just kidding.

And then there is the last time you write a blog post in the tiny shoebox of an apartment that in so many ways has been the centre of your life for the last two and a half years. Your safe place. This is the last night I spend in here. All of my stuff is hauled away to the Culinary Consultant's bachelor pad, and I have spent most of the day cleaning the apartment from floor to ceiling. Scrubbing the sinks, cleaning the fridge, wiping every possible surface, vacuuming, trying to get rid of all that nasty limescale in the shower. I'm pretty much done now, it's not only clean, it's Finnish clean (and that is a very different concept to UK clean!). Now I'm just waiting to go to sleep for the last time in my little penthouse. So much has happened here. I have laughed, I have cried. Mostly I have just been slouching on the sofa, watching Big Bang Theory. I wrote my first blog post here. I spent evenings in candlelight with someone I thought liked me (I was wrong about that). I have curled up on the sofa wrapped in blankets and blasted the radiator trying to keep warm in the middle of winter. I have gone to sleep under a wet duvet cover to cool myself down during the hottest nights of summer when the flat has been hotter than the inner circles of hell. I have woken up from dead sleep by the fire alarm and stood on the street watching flames come out of the window of the apartment under mine, hoping my place with all my stuff in it won't burn down. I have crawled home drunk after parties, and I have cried myself to sleep over boys. I cooked the first meal for the Culinary Consultant here. I had friends over for my birthday and served them Pink Unicorn cake and macaroons. I have made cards and I have eaten way too much chocolate. My wonderful man brought me flowers and ice cream when I was sad (or mad). I have been going crazy over my noisy neighbours, and I have been swearing while carrying my bike up  the 52 steps of stairs to my apartment. All of that will be a memory tomorrow.

Today is my birthday. It's kind of weird that my birthday is my last day in this apartment. But at the same time, it's so fitting that I will have this one last night here to just go through all the motions. I am so excited about all the new things that are happening soon, but for this one night, I'm just allowing myself to be sentimental and think of everything that happened here. But yes, I knew the birthday celebrations would have to be postponed this year. I did have a nice little stack of birthday cards waiting for me this morning, along with some lovely gifts. But there was no cake this year. I'm happy to wait though, there will be time for that later. Hopefully lots of cake made in a big new kitchen. I did manage to find time to nip into Cambs and get me some birthday fudge, so today wasn't totally free of celebration. And I have had some scrummy almost-birthday meals. On Saturday we made BBQ burgers with Stilton, caramelised onions and a fruity mayo salsa (go check out the pic on my Facebook). That was a bit like a celebration, I love love love homemade burgers. And then yesterday evening we made pineapple flambé. I didn't quite know how to do it, so I googled a few recipes and then just made it up as I went along. If lighting things on fire isn't celebratory, I don't know what is!
Pineapple flambé (serves 2-3):
1/2 pineapple
25 g butter
1/4 cup light muscovado sugar
1/4 cup rum or other alcoholic beverage of choice
To serve: whipped cream, ice cream or custard

The howto:
Peel the pineapple, and cut half of it into three slices. Take out the hard middle part of each slice, so that you end up with three rings. Melt the butter in a frying pan, and add the sugar. Let melt into the butter, and caramelise for a minute or two, but make sure not to burn the sugar. Add pineapples and let cook for a few minutes on each side. While the pineapple is cooking, heat the alcohol in a saucepan. Take pineapple off the heat (turn off any gas flame). When the alcohols is warm (but before it boils!!) pour it over the pineapple and light on fire. For added dramatic effect, turn off the light. Make sure you are not doing this under an extractor fan, and also remember to have a lid close by just in case the flames get out of control. Better safe than sorry, although at least for me the flames were very moderate with no fear of anything getting out of control. After the dramatic display of flames, cook on medium heat until most of the liquid has evaporated to form a light syrup. Serve with ice cream, whipped cream or custard.
You just have to take my word for it, but these are
some of the flames! In my defence, it's not easy
taking photographs when you are squealing
excitedly and jumping up and down.
The verdict:
So the secret (well not so much of a secret as something you just need to know) is to warm the alcohol before lighting it. Apparently, if the alcohol is room temperature, there just isn't enough alcoholic vapours for it to ignite. Also, the optimal alcohol to use for flambé is something with around 40% alcohol, such as rum or brandy. Although I think my little flambé experiment turned out rather nice, I think next time I would use a bit more sugar as the syrup wasn't quite as sweet as I would have liked. Maybe a mix of caster and muscovado. However, that will completely depend on your sweet tooth. I would also add some vanilla, which I would have done would I have remembered which box my vanilla sugar was in. The scrapings from a vanilla pod would have been even better. However, the dark rum we used gave the syrup a wonderful vanilla-y flavour. I haven't had a very good track record with flambés in the past, but this one lit up beautifully and I was jumping with joy watching the blue flames. So not a traditional birthday celebration, but I don't mind unconventional. Especially if things are lit on fire!
My going away flowers from my lovely colleagues!

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Supply of legal information: scope for competition?

IPKat team member Jeremy attended yesterday's meeting of the SOLO IP group, at which a team from LexisNexis explained what legal and IP-related materials and search services it could provide and a group of sole and small practitioners explained what it was that they actually wanted. The meeting was a stimulating one, at which a variety of views were exchanged and a good deal of hard listening was done.

A sudden thought occurred to the Kats' representative at that meeting. It runs like this:
Many years ago in Magill, the European Court of Justice took the view that the failure of television companies to make their listings of forthcoming programmes available for publication in magazines -- thus forcing viewers to purchase separate magazines in respect of different TV channels which they wanted to watch -- should be viewed a an abuse of the copyright monopoly since it prevented the development of a products in a market that was not the TV companies' market but one that was tangential to it.

For all lawyers, and not just IP professionals, a similar situation exists. Each of LexisNexis and Westlaw owns and provides access to a large portfolio of databases including law reports, official materials and relevant professional and scholarly writing. In order for any practitioner to serve his clientele most effectively, he really needs to be able to have access to both. Would it not be at least arguable that a comparison can be made with the case of TV programme lists?

To resolve the problem, let LexisNexis, Westlaw and any other possessors of equivalent legal databases be encourage to make licences available to their competitors on FRAND ('fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory') terms, so that royalties will be secured in respect of their proprietary materials, leaving LexisNexis, Westlaw and the like to compete with one another in terms of their pricing to users and the quality of the facilities for interrogating the data?
Does anyone have any comments, asks the Kat.
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  1. Well, Milud. This kat wouldn't want to tangle to with topkat Dr P, but I don't think that's the way to go and I think 'Magill' addresssed a situation where the IP owner prevented the creation of a 'downstream' market which doesn't apply here.
    Let's turn this on its head. I think Dr P made the valid point that solo practitioners/sole principals could create a powerful buying consortia. So let's aggregate some buying power. Not only might we get better deals, but we could also create a market for services tailored to our particular needs.
    The (eponymous) Laurence Kaye

  2. Dear IPKat

    I'm not entirely sure that the parallel holds up - as the key point in Magill (as developed by IMS)is that there was a clear need for a new product which didn't exist at the time and which the rights holders were not interested in providing (a combined TV guide covering all channels). Whilst the recent Microsoft decision has opened up the 'new product' requirement somewhat (because Microsoft were arguably already providing versions of the server technology which the complainant Sun wanted to market), compelling a rights holder to allow competition right in its own backyard would still be pretty controversial.

    Myles Jelf

  3. In the US, the broadcast schedule consisting of the titles and times of the television program (or playing schedule of sports events, for instance, is not copyrightable. While the contents of legal databases are copyrighted compilations.

  4. Westlaw and Lexis don't seem to pay anything to all of the copyright owner of the works in their databases in Europe - they may pay the publishers but not the authors. The ALCS collecting society collects and distributes photocopying royalties to authors but not digitial distribution royalties.

    In the US, there is an ongoing class action about this - see I'm sure I got a written notice about it once upon a time. However, the proposed settlement appears to discriminate massively against non-US copyright owners - $1500 per article if you registered it with the US Copyright Office, $5 if you did not (TRIPS?!) - see p4 of Interestingly, that seems to have been the cause of the delay to approval of the proposed settlement.

    Most authors want their materials to appear on the databases for reasons of exposure. However, it seems odd that they don't get any share of the fees made by Westlaw etc when they do get a share of photocopying royalties...

  5. I liked (but doubt the viability of) your suggested Magill approach to legal publishing! Presumably LN and Westlaw would argue that the essential facilities equivalent to the TV listings raw data would be the primary law which is (largely) freely available via BAILLI, HMSO, Curia, OHIM, EPO etc, etc, whereas their subscription-only added value (commentaries, precedents, linking, aggregation) is how they legitimately compete for business. There is nothing (in Magill terms) to prevent competitors building up competing databases. Obviously you could argue that some secondary sources like JIPLP or ETMR headnotes are also essential facilities, but I'm not sure the ECJ would buy that...

  6. Echoing the comment at 10:03, I'd reinforce that the answer may lie more in terms of pushing forward open access, especially in terms of an open acccess law programme in the UK. See Science Commons at SC OAL and obligatory wikipedia reference. SCRIPT had an event at BILETA this year (which I nudged SCRIPT for but did none of the planning -- with huge thanks to Shawn and Wiebke) on OAL and of course there have been huge moves in the open access space throughout the UK (SHERPA and lots and lots of blogs and various projects, including in open data).

    One move that would greatly push forward access would be if authors and journal editors such as yourself would insist on using open content licences or publishing only in open access journals. That way the rights issues would be (at least partially) solved at the source. Rather than some grand litigation at the ECJ, I humbly suggest that the Kat could start with bringing the issue up at JIPLP.

    The more open the sources of information (the data -- journal articles, case law, statutes) then all the more fiercely will LexisNexis, Westlaw, Kluwer and others "compete with one another in terms of their pricing to users and the quality of the facilities for interrogating the data".

  7. My comment is not on fair use but more of a practical suggestion for cost management for the use of Lexis/Nexis: instead of taking out a subscription to these databases, why not instruct a firm of information scientists? The advantages being a) they will already have a licence to use the database, so saving you the cost of subscribing yourself b) they are much more experienced in how to use the databases c) they will be able to advise on what other databases might be more appropriate in the circumstances of any given matter and d) if the results are to be the basis for evidence before the Trade Marks Registry, then a witness statement from an information scientist carries far more weight than a statement from a trade mark attorney.

    If people want to call me for the name of the firm I use I will be happy to give it to them. The last time I filed a witness statement from them based on their research the Principal Hearing Officer at the Registry stated in his decision that the evidence was so thorough and accurate that he would reflect it in giving our side an order for costs on the maximum scale set by the Registry.

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The extension of Marress Road was planned to cross the river far closer to Irvine Royal Academy, and the creation of a new dual carriageway from that junction through existing housing crossing Quarry Road and East Road on its way out of the town. This would have created busy roads through the centre of the town, whether this was in addition to the bypass that was actually built, or instead of, is not clear from the image.

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The high school recognized six students on June 18 for earning the Islip School District Seal of Biliteracy. This was the second year that Islip has bestowed this prestigious honor, offered by the New York State Education Department, which recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in listening, speaking, reading,and writing in one or more languages, in addition to English.

The honored students were Christian Guerrero (project on El Salvador), Nicole Huaylinos (project on Peru), Harold Martinez (project on Argentina), Bianka Morales (project on Guatemala), Isabella Pollina (project on Cuba) and Leonardo Soto (project on Colombia).

The Seal of Biliteracy affirms the value of diversity in a multilingual society, recognizes the value of world and home language instruction in schools, encourages the study of languages, identifies high school graduates with language and biliteracy skills for employers, provides universities with additional information about applicants seeking admission and prepares students with 21st century skills.

“Our district has been recognizing students for their bilingualism, biliteracy and cross-cultural competence with the Seal of Biliteracy since its inception in 2018,” said Priscilla Zarate, the district’s ENL and world language coordinator. “The first year, only one student from the high school received this award. This year, we were excited to recognize six students. Next year, we are expecting 15 students to work on earning the Seal of Biliteracy. My thanks to ELA coordinator Barbara Wagner for supporting the ELA pathway for these students, and to world language teacher Karen Maisano, for guiding the students in their project development to meet the world language criteria.”

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With sun in the sky above and pride in their hearts, the high school’s Class of 2019 walked together into the athletic field on June 26 for a remarkable and exciting commencement marking their last moments together as seniors before the next phase of their life begins.

Senior and All-State vocalist Deja Boucher Weiss not only sang the national anthem but performed a special rendition of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” while the school’s wind ensemble and concert band, directed by Steven Campanella, provided the processional and recessional music.

“Today we collectively share the excitement of our graduating seniors, the tremendous pride of their families and friends, and the deep satisfaction of the entire school district staff,” said Board of Education trustee Paul Austin, whose daughter Taylor was among the graduates.

Austin took the students down memory lane, remembering numerous good times and accomplishments, from field trips to concerts. Said Austin, “I challenge you to take the best of what you have learned from each and every experience with you into the real world and make the most of it.”

“Tonight, the tenor of my words will those of fond memories and gratitude at the honor of being part of your journey,” said Michael Mosca in his final address as outgoing principal. After thanking his colleagues and the community, he turned to the seniors.

“You make my job the greatest job on the planet,” Mosca told them. “Thank you for the lessons that you have taught me. Graduates, when you leave our campus today, set out to do good. Be good to others, and most of all, be good to yourselves, and you will never walk alone.”

Superintendent Ellen Semel told stories demonstrating the power of kindness and forgiveness, and thanked Mosca for his dedication to the students of Islip, before offering words of wisdom.

“Graduates, you have one precious and remarkable life,” Dr. Semel said. “Don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, as they somehow already know what you truly want to become. My fondest wish for all of you is that you each discover some magic in this world, what you are passionate about that makes you want to get up in the morning. I hope you find that and harness it into your career, because then, if you are truly lucky as I am, you will never work a day in your life. Your work will be the best part of your day.”

In a message of optimistic change, salutatorian Matthew Southard noted both the presence of looming global problems as well as the power of community.

“It is time to mobilize our education,” Southard said. “It is time to charge ahead in regard to progress, and it is time to utilize the lessons of our past to empower change in the future. Run for office, start your own company, lobby for a cause. Now is the time for change.”

Valedictorian Victoria Arthus began by recalling Commack Road’s Flag Day ceremony seven years ago, when she first decided that being valedictorian one day was her goal.

“This right here, this was my dream, the first of many,” Arthus said. “All of you sitting in this graduating class have your own dreams. I believe it is the paths you take and the sacrifices you make in pursuit of that moment, that dream, which define and make that goal worthwhile. Yes, people may remember the title you one day earn, but even more so, they will remember how you earned it. Class of 2019, it is time to make our dreams a reality.”

Diplomas were then conferred, tassels turned, and purple and white caps filled the air before the evening came to a celebratory close.

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For the fourth consecutive year, the high school hosted a special reception on June 25 for the valedictorian and salutatorian, providing a chance for both students – Class of 2019 valedictorian Victoria Arthus and salutatorian Matthew Southard – to reconnect with all of their former high school, middle school and elementary school teachers.

“We are here to congratulate these seniors, our valedictorian and salutatorian,” said Superintendent Ellen Semel to the assembled educators. “But so many of you have had a hand in helping shape their lives, and I want to thank you all for this. We so seldom realize the power we have as educators, and this is one of those times you get to see it in living color.”

Turning to the two seniors, Semel told them, “I congratulate you for your leadership, your perseverance, your excellence in academia. You’ve been an inspiration not just to the other students, but to all of us here for what you’ve accomplished. I know that you’re going to be doing wonderful and great things. Please remember where you come from. Please visit and share what you’ve learned with all of us. We do want to follow your careers as you move forward and have the pleasure of knowing that we had a hand in that.”


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This isn’t a case of Hamas fooling the media. The media is using Hamas to fool the public.

There are no new lies. Only old lies that the media hopes that everyone forgot about.

In the spring of ’02, Muslim terrorists had very special plans for Passover. In Israel, a Hamas suicide bomber blew up at a Passover seder in the Park Hotel killing 30 people and wounding 140 others. Many of the dead were in their seventies and eighties. Some were Holocaust survivors. The oldest was a 90-year-old woman. Four days later, another Hamas suicide bomber hit a restaurant killing 15 people and wounding another 40. In both attacks, entire families died together. Two were completely wiped out.

These were two of four terrorist attacks that hit Israeli cafes and restaurants in that month alone.

Israel fought back by launching Operation Defensive Shield. One of its targets was Jenin, an encampment that the terrorists behind some of the deadliest attacks had been using as their base. Israel warned the civilian population to evacuate and then its soldiers began the dangerous business of clearing a territory that had been heavily mined and filled with deadly traps by Islamic terrorists.

The fighting was hard and bloody. Israel lost 23 soldiers and there were 52 dead on the other side. Only 14 of them were civilians. The rest were terrorists. Of course that’s not the story that the media told.

Instead the media claimed that there had been a “massacre”, an “atrocity” and “genocide” in Jenin. It claimed that Israel had killed 500 Palestinians and buried bodies in mass graves with bulldozers. The lie eventually fell apart. By the summer, even the UN had concluded that there was no massacre.

But by then it really didn’t matter.

What most people remembered were the lurid media allegations of Israeli atrocities, not the reports carefully disproving them. The blood libels depicting Israelis as murdering children, the disabled and the elderly did their work. The media moved on, the lies did their damage and the fake news cycle went on.

The “Jenin massacre” consisted of 38 armed men and 14 civilians. The death toll in the latest Hamas violence in Gaza was 60 dead, 50 of them were Hamas members and 3 others were in Islamic Jihad.

The numbers are so similar because the same thing keeps happening again and again.

This March, tens of thousands of Hamas supporters swarmed the Gaza border (sound familiar?). The thugs threw rocks and firebombs while the terrorists using them as cover shot at Israeli forces.

10 out of 15 of the dead were members of terrorist groups.

But that didn’t stop all the usual suspects from condemning Israel and lying about the death toll.

The same thing has been happening for decades. Islamic terrorists attack Israel. Israel fights back. The terrorists and their allies put out a wildly inflated death toll. The media uncritically repeats their propaganda and accuses Israel of a massacre. The claims are bolstered by fake photos and videos.

The lie falls apart in a matter of days. After a few months, even human rights groups admit the truth. The civilians turn out to be terrorists and terrorist groups bury them in showy funerals.

But it doesn’t matter because then the same thing happens all over again. And again.

And if anything the media has gotten much worse. After Jenin, some questioning pieces made it into the media analyzing why the myth of a massacre had been allowed to take hold. Don’t count on a repeat. The media didn’t just lie about a few things. It lied about everything. And it knew that it was lying.

Any correspondent and editor working the regional beat knew that the Gaza attacks had been going on long before the embassy dedication. The decision to associate the embassy opening and the violence was a deliberate narrative based on a lie. The media ran with it because it could damage Trump, Jared and Ivanka. And because it allowed reporters to sell editors on a story about more fighting in Gaza that without the embassy angle would have been much less likely to upstage the media’s Mueller obsession.

Many media accounts avoided mentioning Hamas. Even those that did attempted to depict the protests as independent of the Islamic terrorist group even though it was Hamas that had organized them.

Hamas didn’t fool the media. The Muslim Brotherhood group is capable of being manipulative, but it was also eager to take the credit for the violence. Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar rushed to boast on Al Jazeera that, “This is not peaceful resistance.”

"When we talk about ‘peaceful resistance,’ we are deceiving the public," the terror boss explained.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who had organized the attacks, told Al Jazeera, "When we decided to embark on these marches, we decided to turn that which is most dear to us – the bodies of our women and children – into a dam."

Al-Zahar and Sinwar’s rush to appear on Al Jazeera wasn’t accidental. The terror media network is an arm of Qatar. The Qatari regime is a major sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The two terror kingpins were quick to appear on a propaganda channel owned by their boss to show off and make a case for further financial and political support from Qatar for their terrorist organization.

But while the American media usually allows Al Jazeera to tell it how to cover the Middle East, repeating Qatari propaganda about Iran, Yemen, Israel, Libya and the UAE uncritically, it showed little interest in reporting on the statements by Hamas leaders about their tactics and agenda broadcast on Al Jazeera.

When a Hamas official announced on television that 50 of the 62 were members of his terrorist group, the revelation went largely unreported in the media even as it went viral on social media. Some media operatives tried to spin the unwelcome admission by insisting that it didn’t matter whether they were Hamas if they were unarmed. But if they were unarmed, how did Israel manage to achieve an 85% kill percentage of terror group members among 50,000 rioters? Either 85% of the crowd was made up of terrorists or Israeli forces aimed and shot carefully, with restraint, only at terrorists posing a threat.

"But with the images of rifle-toting Israeli snipers facing off against seemingly unarmed protesters beamed around the world, the remarks by Hamas may do little to convince Israel's detractors," an AP report spun the admission. What the AP was really saying is that the false image created by its own propaganda machine is more compelling than admissions about the violence by Hamas leaders.

This isn’t a case of Hamas fooling the media. The media is using Hamas to fool the public. And when Hamas leaders tell inconvenient truths, the media seeks to protect its narrative from their admissions.

When this latest lie falls apart, the media will move on to the next one. And the one after that.

The one truth among all the lies is that the media will never stop lying about Israel.

Daniel Greenfield

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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) experts have started the process of copying data from a Moscow laboratory which could implicate numerous Russian athletes in past drug cases.

"Work has started with the equipment, setting the equipment up and copying the database," Russia Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said yesterday in televised comments. "Work is proceeding with full coordination because we discussed all the technical and organisational details before then."

In an emailed statement, WADA did not immediately confirm the data transfer had begun but said "the team has gained access to the lab and has not reported any issues so far."

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Little people have big power. Yesterday the CPSC has granted a 1-year stay on the new law while they revise & edit the law.

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Flickr group HERE. Another HERE.

Spring skirts with snow still on the ground...who else does this?

Thursday, January 29, 2009

I've been holding my tongue on this one for well over 2 months now. I hope by now that all of you are aware of the effect a recently amended law will have on handmade goods for children 12 and under.

I was one of those moms who chose wooden and other "all-natural" toys for her toddlers. In fact, I got into sewing & crafting because I was so interested in an alternative to cheap, plastic toys & mass produced clothing & accessories. That was about 15 years ago.

I started crafting wooden toys first, then after I found my love affair with fabric & my sewing machine, I started doing children's clothing.

I was never "big time". I was never highly in demand. But I always sold out.
Even if I couldn't afford handmade items to purchase for my kids (I was a single mother of an infant and toddler by the time I was 27) I could always make the items. And frankly, my crafty imagination has always been one of my better qualities.

People would see the things I made...and want one. Thus started a limited selection of items. I've never made more than 2 of anything.

I started focusing on clothing & accessories after the kids were bigger and no longer interested in wooden toys. My girl was also less interested in handmade clothing (*cries*) yet I still had the urge to create.

That little venture has served me well, when I wanted it to, over the past 5 or 6 years via eBay and more recently Etsy.

I don't do this full time, never have. I was never brave enough to cast all my pebbles in the same basket, to be honest.

But there are plenty of people who DO make beautiful handmade items for children full time. And they are the ones in danger of losing their livelihood on February 10.

The CPSIA's purpose was to protect children from lead and phlalate poisoning, and pushed through Congress in the wake of the many toy recalls in 2007 (nearly all of which were imports from China).

And while I can see & support the good intentions behind this new has far-reaching ramifications that were neither considered nor have they been addressed.

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Oh, Brad....poor, sad, multimillionaire. How we feel for your frustrations with the media and the incessant glimpses into your private life. It's not easy being a movie star, huh?

I could say more, but "Davey" in Brisbane said it better...

"Tell ya what Brad, lets swap. I'll do your next movie, you do my next tour of Afghanistan."

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

wonderland - day 2

Cold but enjoying it...

I'm feeling generous, so I'm sending all of my blogger friends on the East Coast some snow.

You're welcome.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Yup, it came. Still coming. Look how pretty it is:

Pretty much everything looks like a winter wonderland. Super dangerous to walk and/or drive on though! Staying home (& indoors) today!! Here's my little dog's "path" in the backyard. That's not snow...that's sleet buildup.

Missing this morning from my backyard was my little bird friend. He sits outside my kitchen window every morning and we eyeball each other while I make my hot cocoa.

These pics are all from a couple days ago when I couldn't resist any longer. He's so fat and cute!

I think he could hear the shutter & zoom clicking!

I'm not exactly a bird watcher or anything, but I really love birds. Especially when they sit and let me snap about 30 pics of them. I hope the little guy is holed up some place warm this morning!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

ice ice baby

Ice warning for me. Which means ALL my laundry is now done and ALL the dishes are clean. The dishes (nor the laundry) quite knows what to think of me.

StickGirl nudged me to cook up a few dinners that can be eaten in the days to come if (when!) I lose power. StickGirl is so smart.

Sadly, my laptop battery is toast, so...if the power goes so does my connection to the lovely blog world. *cries*

I have been planning activities for the no tv, no internet, kids driving me crazy day or two ahead...

I have this pattern ready to pleat for Lu. It's not often you find a smocking pattern that tweenish girls will wear. She really likes this one though:

And this is darn cute too, especially if I make a little cropped or swing jacket to match:

I've seen this one made up as a top wtih jeans in Sew Beautiful, and it really was sew beautiful (harhar).

The Lexinator needs something smocked I'm thinking. She's such a hellion. Hellions should wear frilly Nelona Swiss batiste with French lace methinks. I've been thinking bishop since she's not immediately available to measure. This is a bishop pattern, for those of you not familar with smocking: (although I've got a whole stash of AS&E magazines with gorgeous bishop patterns that I'll be using for the base):

Ok I gotta scoot, cause the living room floor is currently covered in pink & black giraffe print knit. Yup, the BWOF 2/08 dress is actually in the PROGRESS stage!! It has 4 pieces that have to be cut out in the single layer stage, so I got tired. Well, ok. I got bored. But back to it. Now.

Stay warm!

Saturday, January 24, 2009

You know the problem (that isn't much of a problem) with BWOF? It comes every month, and I totally forget about great issues! There are just so many good ones, and even the not so good ones have at least one amazing thing I want to make.

One of last year's that I really enjoyed but forgot about was the February 08 issue. This is a great dress:

I absolutely forgot about it until Rachel reviewed it last night. Dang, that is one hot dress! (Rachel is new to blogging, but makes really great clothes, so go over and say hi! ) I have been holding onto a giraffe print knit from Gorgeous Fabrics for over a year because I couldn't decide on a suitable project. I think this dress might be it!

While I was flipping through 2/08 I also "remembered" I wanted to make this top:And this spring coat is just fabulous.I wanted to make this little dress for my Lu, I LOVE the big ruffle at the hem. I'm sad the style is too young for me (sniff.)
Luckily BWOF anticipated my sniffles and gave me a grown up spring dress to compensate. Very pretty...although where in the world would I wear it? Although prom is coming up (you know, in 4 months. :D )

What are your favorites from past BWOF's that got away from you?

The very talented and very generous Melissa gave me the Kreativ Blogger award this week! I love blog buttons, and this one is so cute!

Now it's my turn to give it away! The rules are simple, link to the blogger who nominated you, then nominate 7 creative bloggers & let them know they can pick up the cute little button for their site! I read SO many creative blogs out there. But here are 7 of my faves, old & new...

*Shannon of Frogs in a Bucket
*Meg of Boutique Nutmeg
*Laurraine at Patchwork Pottery
*Nettie at A Quilt is Nice
*Heather at Bluhm Studios
*Kristine at Just Keep Sewing
*Lory at the Diary of L (who needs to get her butt back to blogging pronto!!)

I didn't put any effort into seeing if any of these charming, talented bloggers have already been nominated. So if you get it twice, you're just twice as special! And thank you Melissa!

Off to do Saturday things...


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Two MartinisKen asked me over lunch, “Was it really like Mad Men back then?”

Let’s just say I have a little more mileage than he does. He wasn’t born when I went to New York. He was fascinated by my experiences in the era popularized by the TV Series Mad Men.

Yes, I was there. I climbed the stairs from the IRT stop and walked a short distance to the entrance to 420 Lexington and the Offices of J. Walter Thompson when it was the largest advertising agency in the world. I still have the brass medal every employee was awarded on the 100th anniversary of the company.

That job, for a boy reared in southwestern Ohio, was a real eye opener. Everybody smoked. Men. Women. Youngsters like me. I’d worked construction to pay for college and picked up the habit, Phillip Morris Commanders—strong like Camels but longer. The scent of tobacco was everywhere.

Working in the mail room I was too young and too low on the totem pole to participate in the sexual hijinks but then I had a sweetheart back in Ohio.

Naïve? Yes. Stupid? No. I figured if I couldn’t get in on the physical side of things I could learn the lingo so I became the confidante of secretaries and traffic girls. I wound up having those lovely creatures buy me drinks since they made more than me.

I lucked out after a while and wound up becoming a TV paste-up guy who put the storyboards together for presentation and that put me into contact with some heavy hitter art directors.

That lead to my first (and last) two martini lunch. Ted took pity on me and asked me to join him for lunch on him. We went to an Argentine place he frequented. The waiter never asked. A martini for each of us showed up and so I clinked glasses and tried not to react. I thought I was going to be okay and then a refill magically appeared.

Ever see one of those cartoon rabbits that seems to have no bones and slide out of a chair to the floor? That was me. I believe the correct term is Blotto.

Working there was a great way to learn that even though I was getting a degree in Advertising Design the art side of the business was not where the power was. I quickly decided that being an Account Man with heavy knowledge of the art side of the business was what I wanted to do. I was lucky. That was the time when boutiques were giving the old line agencies fits. Powerful creative was being done by the upstarts that are now considered to be icons of the industry. That paid off when I made the switch.

Back then they had open training for all employees over lunch and you could learn about all and any parts of the business. I took advantage of the opportunity and made some friends at the VP level who gave me great advice on how to cross the divide from the creative to the management side of the business.

Ken really stirred up the memories including the summer of New York World’s Fair. The Ford exhibit became a Disney ride. The IBM exhibit synced up a battery of 35mm projectors and a couple of movie projectors. I think that was my first experience with that whole idea of multi-media. Years later I would use the same techniques with original scores for multiple clients.

The mileage check version of how I got here is straightforward:

  • Get job interviews for account work at 42 ad agencies at their expense based on a direct mail letter. Take the position offered by Campbell Mithun Minneapolis.
  • Become the fireman (one of the guys that pulls troubled accounts back into the fold).
  • Work in multiple offices and win your spurs as a new business guy.
  • Decide to leave CM when the agency is purchased by a British Conglomerate.
  • Move to Portland and in time become CEO of the largest B2B agency.
  • Hang out a shingle as a solo when you and your board agree to disagree.

I seldom ever look back even though those were great times. It takes a trigger like hurtling down the mountainside from the Medellin airport in a cab with Don Pepper and learning how often we just barely missed crossing paths. But that’s another story…

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Follow the Dollar

According to The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (via National Philanthropic Trust), 65% of households give to charity. Sixty-five percent sounds good, since, according to IRS data, less than a third (32.64%) of all tax returns filed with them … Continue reading

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Diving into the Associated Scrapbooks

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This month’s JMM Insights comes from our archivist, Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie here.

In the last few months I have begun working on a collection of scrapbooks from The Associated Jewish Charities. The books date back to 1919 and I have been recently investigating the late 1940’s and 1950’s scrapbooks of the publicity and campaign work of the Women’s Division. These books are incredibly interesting, giving a peek into a large, organized group of women working to help not only the Jewish community of Baltimore but people throughout the world. Reading and processing the scrapbooks has been a history lesson of the time period, here and abroad.

Scrapbooks have long been a way to preserve photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, documents, and other assorted items.

The problem with scrapbooks is that they are often put together with materials that are detrimental to long-term preservation. In the past, scrapbook pages where made of poor-quality, highly acidic paper that deteriorates rapidly and discolors. The pages would also become brittle over time and then tear easily and crumble. Often, the binding of the album was not made for the increase in size caused by the materials placed in the scrapbook, causing the spine to break and pages to come out. Papers are attached to the scrapbook with harmful tapes and/or glue. Multi- paged letters or pamphlets may be fastened only by the last sheet, causing rips and tears, or folding and crushing of documents.

For all of these reasons I have been carefully cataloging, photographing and taking apart the scrapbooks. Archivists like me always struggle with the decision whether a scrapbook should stay together or be taken apart. If possible, we try to leave a scrapbook together, since it tells a story not only with the information inside of it but how someone chose to put it together. That is why if I do dismantle a scrapbook, I carefully document its original form for future researchers. To some, these scrapbooks may only seem to contain old bits of paper, but to us they are full of important historical information.

I wanted to share some of what I have found in the scrapbooks. Not only does it give a picture of the time it was made, but some of the pieces could be produced and used today.

The two images above are from the 1949 Women’s Division scrapbook.

We hope you laugh a little at these two postcards that went out to the husbands of the women volunteering! In 1950 over 1200 women participated in the campaign.

This picture is from the 1951 G-day handbook – check out all the do’s and don’t’s they’ve got listed!

Last is my very favorite which I believe could be used today – babies are always a good tug on the heartstrings. These are images from the publicity and booklets for the 1955 Women’s Division campaign.

Making a Scrapbook to Last

Today, making a scrapbook which will stand up to the test of time is easier. Choose a book which is made with acid free paper and pH neutral adhesives for the binding. Use acid free photo corners or other type of binding, make sure all the corners are carefully attached but do not use glue.

In this picture you can see how tape discolors and negatively affects paper.

You want to be able to remove anything placed in a scrapbook, you never know when you might need it again! Scrapbooks are an incredible way to document your family history, a trip, an important event or your organization – they are worth spending a little extra money on good supplies to make sure that future generations can enjoy them.

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Ballad 'The spring returns the pewet screams'

I expect lots of folk know it, but I only discovered this Mary Joyce poem recently - as is often the case with a poet as prolific as Clare.  Must admit that it would have been in our "In the Shadows" Signed/Numbered Handmade Limited Edition book if we had encountered it sooner.  The book tells the story, in Clare's own words, of his largely illusory relationship with Mary.  I still have a few copies of the book should anyone want to acquire one.

The spring returns the pewet screams

Loud welcomes to the dawning

Though harsh & ill as now it seems

Twas music last may morning

The grass so green—the daisy gay

Wakes no joy in my bosom

Although the garland last mayday

Wore not a finer blossom

For by this bridge my Mary sat

& praised the screaming plover

As first to hail the day—when I

Confessed myself her lover

& at that moment stooping down

I pluckt a daisy blossom

Which smilingly she called her own

May garland for her bosom

& in her breast she hid it there

As true loves happy omen

Gold had not claimed a safer care

I thought loves name was woman

I claimed a kiss she laughed away

I sweetly sold the blossom

I thought myself a king that day

My throne was beautys bosom

& little thought an evil hour

Was bringing clouds around me

& least of all that little flower

Would turn a thorn to wound me—

She showed me after many days

Though withered—how she prized it

& then she leaned to wealthy praise

& my poor love despised it

Aloud the whirring pewet screams

The daisy blooms as gaily

But where is Mary—absence seems

To ask that question daily

No where on earth where joy can be

To glad me with her pleasure

Another name she owns—to me

She is as stolen treasure

When lovers part—the longest mile

Leaves hope of some returning

Though mines close bye—no hope the while

Within my heart is burning

One hour would bring me to her door

Yet sad & lonely hearted

If seas between us both should roar

We were not further parted

Though I could reach her with my hand

Ere suns the earth goes under

Her heart from mine—the sea & land

Are not more far asunder

The wind & clouds now here now there

Hold not such strange dominion

As womans cold perverted will

& soon estranged opinion

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text: Last night Patti, Hannah and I got to go see Gretchen Wilson. It was an awesome show. It ran a little late but it was still fun. Made for a long day. About noon i got word about a new club that needed to get setup for a broadcast that evening. (and they are just telling me about this the afternoon the day of) so i run out there and the club still has construction going on. Litterly the booth isnt’ even setup. so we find the isdn, do a test call but they don’t have a working wireless internet. So had no way to setup the station with the clubs info, so i leave the guys there waiting and i run around town looking for an open wap somewhere. I end up at burger king, bought a frozen coke and sat down and set them up. then i rushed over to the dodge arena and got that setup for the broadcast. We were on tmobile but the connection in there was really bad. hard doing wireless in a tin can. so i ran to my car to get a cable to wire up to a phone line. as i’m walking past the ticket booth i see a GFI outlet cover with the label ISDN on it. “Can i really do an ISDN shot from here? what would be awesome!” and i just happen to have a zepher in my car from the setup at the club earlier today. so i got the cable which just happen to be long enough to reach from the booth to where we were setup. got it all gaffed down and plugged it in (i also asked the tech at the arena if the line was up. he said yea. i asked what the spids where, he looked like deer at a new gate) ok.. never mind then. so i plugged it in “Inactive” my display said…. darn.. oh well. it was fun while it lasted. They said they would have an isdn for us next time. They’ve been saying that since oh.. i dunno.. ALAN JACKSON.


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Monday, February 25, 2013

Spice of Life

My favorite area health food store is Dean's Natural Foods in Westgate Plaza. Yes, Honest Weight has pretty much all of the same stuff and I've never really done a price comparison between the two stores. And I like Honest Weight too. I just don't see Honest Weight as a health food store. I still go to Honest Weight every so often but I just like Dean's.

Everyone there is very friendly. There is one woman that works there, I should find out her name, that greets you with a warm hello. When you say, "Hi, how are you?" back to her, the response is, "Reasonable." Wouldn't it be nice if we were all reasonable?

Dean's is where I get most of my spices. They might have a little less space dedicated to seasonings than Honest Weight, but I like the set up at Dean's better. It's more relaxed,  they have little bags with stickers already on them to label the spices, and I think the spice prices are quite fair. Need a tablespoon of allspice, buy just a tablespoon of allspice. It will be cheaper and better than anything you buy in a supermarket. Plus you won't have a spice you use once and throw the rest away in 6 or 7 years. I stopped in earlier today to pick up some spices.

I picked up some oregano and granulated garlic just to have more of both in the house. The granulated garlic is great. I also picked up some bay leaves, yellow mustard seeds, allspice, and coriander (I already put the granualted garlic in a jar - it is potent stuff). Quick spice buying tip - put the date on the label so you know how old the spices are.

I mixed up some salt, cure#1, and brown sugar in the bowl on the left. Most of the spices I bought today are in the bowl on the right. I rubbed one of the last roasts I have in the freezer with the spices. Not exactly the traditional corned beef, but I think it will work.

It will get tucked away in the fridge for at least a week before it gets cooked. This is the first time I dry rubbed a corned beef. The few other times I've used a brine.

I loosely followed the Serious Eats recipe. Here's the Serious Eats write-up and recipe. We'll see how it goes. At the very least, I hope it comes out reasonable.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

First Pizzas

I recently joined the forum. The depth of information available there is astounding. I took some of the flour out of my 50 pound bag (a slight exaggeration - I broken the 50 pound bag down into lots of 4 to 5 pound vacuum sealed bags and one big jar) and made some dough on Monday night and put it in the fridge. The recipe was developed by a guy whose screen name is Glutenboy. How bad could the dough be? Tonight I put the homemade pizza steel in the oven and fired it up.

I don't know if it is the mixing technique (all the yeast and water and half the flour get mixed first) or the high protein flour or some combination of both, but this is the first time I felt like I was able to work with the dough and shape a pizza. I can't tell you how many video's I've watched only to tear the dough. No problems tonight. I even tried to flip the dough between my hands and kind of got the hang of that. I wouldn't have ever tried to do that before because the result would have been more like a donut once my hand went straight through. I used Scalifini crushed tomatoes for the sauce and Trader Joe's mozzarella for the cheese. Once again, the olive pizza is for the kids. I'll eat it, but doubt I would ever pick just a black olive pizza.

I've still got to work on how I use the oven. For the most part, these were baked for 3 minutes at 550 and then broiled for 1 minute. I'm probably more excited than I should be. Hopefully hanging around that website continues to assist in making improved pizza. Progress...

Monday, February 18, 2013

Summer in February

Winters can seem to drag on and seem endless. To get through it, we have an annual Summer in February picnic. It's a summer family barbecue in the middle of winter. Groundhog's Day has nothing on this. You ever have a Thanksgiving style food induced coma on Groundhog's Day? Didn't think so.

The tradition started a few years ago when we gathered at a camp on the Sacandaga for a pot-luck picnic and a bunch of outdoor winter fun. The food kept getting better and the event quickly picked up an alias, Pierogie and Rib Day.

Other than a little of the coordination, my contributions to the meal are the ribs and sausage. I've got a burn barrel for making charcoal. At some point in this barrels history, it was a 55 gallon drum of tomato paste. With a few modifications, this thing has been generating charcoal for barbecue for over 10 years. You cut a small door towards the bottom. This is where you shovel out the coals and control how much air the fire gets. You drill holes so you can make a grate of rebar above the door. My grate is by the lower barrel rib. The grate supports the burning logs and allows coal sized pieces to fall to the bottom. Once you're done cutting and drilling, you basically have a giant charcoal chimney.

Start a fire an you are off to the races. With the door at the bottom open, you can turn this into a jet engine. With is closed, you have a more controlled, slow burn. Although this year, I got smart and used a bunch of coals from the wood stove to heat the pit. Usually, I have to make two fires.

The pit is just a stack of old concrete blocks. In the summer, I just put the colas on the ground. You can't do that in the winter. The coals thaw the frozen ground then water comes out of the once frozen ground and puts out your fire. Ask me how I know. The work around is some bricks and an old cast iron grate just above the ground.

 I cooked two rack of ribs and a few pounds of sausage in there. Instead of the usual rub, I went with one recommended by Mr. Dave. Here's a link to the recipe. As to be expected from a Mr. Dave recommendation, the rub is great. My wife's uncle took the extra rub I had home with him.

Off to one side of the pit was a slope my father-in-law set up for the kids. They had fun with it. Here's my nephew on a sledding run.

Once the food started, it never seemed to stop. There was a big taco dip with chips. On paper, I shouldn't like taco dip, but I love it.

I threw together a Buffalo cheese dip. Not bad. It's one of those things that isn't fantastic but for some reason you can't stop eating it.

 Aunt Carol fried up a ton of pierogi. There are only 9 in the pan...she fried up a lot more than 9.

My mother-in-law makes some seriously good deviled eggs. Her potato salad is great too.

Now that's a lot of pierogi. The ribs came out tender and the combination of smoke with the rub wa delicious.

Here's Round 1 for me.

Hope you left room for dessert. In addition to ice cream, there were lots of cookies - some gluten free thin mints that really tasted a lot like the real thing, chocolate cherry cookies and kissing hands. Plus an apple square and a chocolate rum cake.

After the kids went to bed, there was a loud, highly contested six-handed pinochle game that went until 1 AM. Just like in the summer.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Roaming The Restaurant Depot

I got a chance to wander around the new Restaurant Depot that recently opened on Warehouse Row in Colonie. Before you head over, you should know that the Restaurant Depot is not open to the public. You need a Tax ID number or the proper paperwork from a non-profit to get a free membership. Luckily, I know a few people that have already become members and was able to tag along.

From the outside, the place looks like any other really big wholesale store but there is a very nice covered area so rain and snow won’t get on your purchases while you load up. Since it is a store for restaurants, everything is bulk. Not just bulk, BULK. The refrigerated section is huge and filled with meats, cheeses and produce. Some meats were marked for sale by the piece (whole briskets, packs of pork butt, whole sirloins – like in BJs) but they were also sold by the case which makes sense if you are preparing several hundred portions of short ribs. Most of the cheeses looked to start in the 5 pound range. And it looks like a fresh seafood section is coming. Right now most of the seafood was frozen, but the empty holding tanks looked like they were almost ready to go.

When I was done in the cooler I wondered around the rest of the store. They had some nice looking kitchen equipment – stock pots, slicers, grinder, coffee equipment. Smaller stuff too – spatulas, whisks, peelers, knives. And plates, glassware, aprons, to-go containers, paper/plastic stuff, pizza boxes, the list is very long. Then you get into the dry goods. It is kind of like a supermarket except “gallon” is the smallest size. If they have what you want and you want a lot of it, the prices are good too. For example, the price of De Cecco spaghetti is $1.24 a pound. The catch is you need to buy twenty, 1-pound boxes.

Restaurant Depot is a lot of fun for a food nut to walk around. I went in hoping to find one, specific ingredient and I did. But it only came in 100 or 50 pounds bags.

Guess who has 50 pound sack of high protein pizza flour.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Pizza on the Brain

Just joined another pizza forum. This one is at The amount of fantastic information on that site is overwhelming. I made another folder in the bookmarks pull down menu to hold the new links and threads I want to revisit. And the pictures...I have been staring at amazing pizzas for almost a week now.

I'm hoping to get out to buy some high protein flour tomorrow so I can make a dough I read about this weekend. The recipe calls for a minimum 3 day cold ferment and the dough apparently gets better with age. Challenge accepted.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Happy Birthday To Us

Once a year, my side of the family gets together to celebrate our collective birthdays in one shot and that's what we did over the weekend. This year, everyone met up at our house and it was the first time I was under the gun to pick the celebratory restaurant.

The event kicked off Saturday morning with the baking of the Grandma Cake. The recipe has been handed down from my Grandma Lilly (also of Grandma Cookie fame - what can I say, we didn't come up with very clever names). It is a tricky recipe and that is mostly because you have to cook by feel. and that is never good in baking. For example, the only measured amount in the frosting recipe is for the butter. Everything else is to taste plus you have to eyeball it to make sure you have enough to frost the whole cake. My oldest brother was in charge of baking the cake this year and I was his assistant along with 3 kids. I took a few photos along the way. Here's the batter during several milk additions to get the proper "ribbon" flowing off the spoon.

Two cake pans filled with batter ready to get baked.

The frosting gets mixed up while the cake bakes. You need to frost the cake while it is still warm. The frosting came out great. The leftover was mixed into some milk for some afternoon hot chocolate.

My brother's first time using an offset spatula to frost. A butter knife is the usual frosting tool.

We piled into two vehicles and headed off to Garden Bistro 24. I figured it was a casual enough restaurant to have a few kids with coloring books and the food was good enough to make the adults happy too. For the most part, I'd say it was a great restaurant pick. Three hiccups stood out to me, and I'll detail them, but above everything else I must say I really enjoy their mussel dishes, the steak that came to the table was delicious, the kids liked the chicken fingers (house made) and burger, I thought the Merabec Salad was fantastic, frites are awesome, the staff is very friendly and my mother was happy with the vegan meal they prepared for her. So even with the hiccups, we enjoyed the restaurant.

So the hiccups...I had called almost two weeks in advance to make the reservation and make special accommodations for my mother who basically eats a vegan diet with minimal fat. I was assured it wasn't a problem and to remind the server. We did and there were a few awkward moments there where it seemed like there was going to be a scramble to get her a dinner because there is nothing on their menu other than salad for her to eat. It was awkward enough for my wife to ask me if I had called in advance to set it up. In the end it worked out nicely and she got some very fresh, lightly sauteed vegetable over a bed quinoa. Lovely. Nothing major, just a minor bump.

Hiccup number 2: We ordered a bottle of wine with five glasses. The glasses were delivered to the table and a few moments later the bottle of wine was place on the table in front of me with a - and this is a quote - "Here you go." The bottle had a twist top which had been loosened and I poured wine for everyone. I understand there wasn't a cork to present, but something slightly more formal would have been nice. Instead, it was me saying, "Hey, pass me your glass."

The final hiccup: the appetizers were weak. They aren't bad, but they aren't good either. Certainly not in comparison to everything else. Maybe it was an off night, I don't know. I've never had any appetizers there before. My wife and I split a salad, then we each get a dinner, then maybe we'll split a dessert. We ordered the Crispy Calamari and Jumbo Lump Crab Cake. If a place can put that much attention to detail into their salads - seriously the Merabec salad with a maple/mustard vinaigrette was really delicious - they can make much better crab cakes and fried calamari. The skill in the kitchen is clearly there. There just needs to be some of that skill focused at the appetizers.

Hiccups and all, we enjoyed ourselves and the night. We skipped dessert at the restaurant and headed back to the house for Grandma Cake. After singing Happy Birthday to Us, we tore into the cake. It was a good time.

Friday, February 1, 2013

New Make Cough Syrup

I said earlier how much I enjoyed watching the Moonshiners show on Discovery. I shouldn't. And yet I love the damn show. The first season was a little bit better than the second but I still enjoyed it and if there is a third season, I'll be setting the DVR up to watch it.

Ever since having the flu just before Christmas, I have a cough I just can't shake. Last night after a brief coughing fit I reached for the bottle of cough syrup I had been nursing all week. It was gone.

What would Tickle do? I'll tell you what Tickle would do.

Tickle would never have bought the CVS knockoff of Robitussin. He would have had himself a few belts of shine (probably a mason's jar worth) and gone to sleep it off. So, I reached for my bottle of Albany Distiller's New Make Whiskey. Technically speaking, alcohol from a corn mash that was aged in a barrel for as long as it took to fill the barrel and then empty it sounds pretty similar to the shine I've been watching these guys make for the past few weeks. I did about half a shot. Watched a rerun of 30 Rock. Did another shot and went to bed.

This morning I woke up well rested and felt the best I have since early December. Not all better, but on the mend. Definitely having another shot (or two or three) tonight. Strictly for medicinal purposes, of course.