Vacation -Days Three and Four

It rained/is raining. The garden slugs are ruining my tomatoes. I think I'm coming down with a cold or something.....

Wednesday's breakfast was eaten at the M---- Family Restaurant(I'd had supper there once years back and was unimpressed by their 'home-style' spaghetti dinner). I was intrigued yesterday morning by the Corned Beef Omelet...which was all right, but could have been improved by the addition of an extra ingredient or two such as onion, sauerkraut, or maybe a sweet & spicy mustard sauce. To be fair, the waitress *did* offer hot sauce, and there *was* ketchup on the table.... I have to give the experience a 3 out of 5....

---*Hot sauce* at BREAKFAST????? shudders --

This morning I visited "Doggie Styles", a small roadside eatery which specializes in carry-out fare such as it's signature HOT DOGS, Gyro sandwiches, burgers, fries, onion rings, etc., but there is also a tiny inside sit-down dining area, and they do serve breakfast.... I ordered the Biscuits and Gravy. It was good, and filling.... but I'd overestimated my appetite and as mentioned above, I think I'm coming down with something, and started feeling queasy. I left half my breakfast on the table, along with a nice tip; mentioned to the waiter that it was tasty, but more filling than I'd anticipated, came home and made myself a cup of tea. Rating: a provisional 3.5 out of 5 (half a point for having real ceramic coffee cups, but only powdered non-dairy creamer).

Tomorrow, provided I'm feeling better, I'll either go to the Scamper-In (another roadside eatery) or the new Welcome-in (which has been 'opening soon' for the past two weeks).... Or I might just break my self-imposed rule of IN TOWN, NON-FAST FOOD and hit either McD's or HarD's or go across the river to Village Inn or Denny's....

Currently trying to psyche myself up to make the zucchini bread -- I have to shred the zucchini, you see. This has been "Weiss Kreuz:Knight Hunters" week; Husband called it 'an Assassination Soap Opera' last night after the whole 'Omi-Ouka-Rejii-Shuichi-Takatori' connection was revealed.

TAKATORI!!!!!! MIND_CRUSH!!!!!!! (oops, wrong anime... wrong VA, too; 'Gluehn' is next week. Maybe....)

Maybe this afternoon I'll take a bunch of books to the Paperback Exchange -- I've decided that really the only Charlaine Harris books I want to keep are the 'Harper Connollys' and there are a few other odd ones that I picked up earlier in the year, finally read and was less than enchanted.

A friend of ours burned a bootleg copy of TW:CoE and gave it to us last week.... didn't have the heart to tell him we'd probably never watch it.....

Vacation -Days Three and Four

It rained/is raining. The garden slugs are ruining my tomatoes. I think I'm coming down with a cold or something.....

Wednesday's breakfast was eaten at the M---- Family Restaurant(I'd had supper there once years back and was unimpressed by their 'home-style' spaghetti dinner). I was intrigued yesterday morning by the Corned Beef Omelet...which was all right, but could have been improved by the addition of an extra ingredient or two such as onion, sauerkraut, or maybe a sweet & spicy mustard sauce. To be fair, the waitress *did* offer hot sauce, and there *was* ketchup on the table.... I have to give the experience a 3 out of 5....

---*Hot sauce* at BREAKFAST????? shudders --

This morning I visited "Doggie Styles", a small roadside eatery which specializes in carry-out fare such as it's signature HOT DOGS, Gyro sandwiches, burgers, fries, onion rings, etc., but there is also a tiny inside sit-down dining area, and they do serve breakfast.... I ordered the Biscuits and Gravy. It was good, and filling.... but I'd overestimated my appetite and as mentioned above, I think I'm coming down with something, and started feeling queasy. I left half my breakfast on the table, along with a nice tip; mentioned to the waiter that it was tasty, but more filling than I'd anticipated, came home and made myself a cup of tea. Rating: a provisional 3.5 out of 5 (half a point for having real ceramic coffee cups, but only powdered non-dairy creamer).

Tomorrow, provided I'm feeling better, I'll either go to the Scamper-In (another roadside eatery) or the new Welcome-in (which has been 'opening soon' for the past two weeks).... Or I might just break my self-imposed rule of IN TOWN, NON-FAST FOOD and hit either McD's or HarD's or go across the river to Village Inn or Denny's....

Currently trying to psyche myself up to make the zucchini bread -- I have to shred the zucchini, you see. This has been "Weiss Kreuz:Knight Hunters" week; Husband called it 'an Assassination Soap Opera' last night after the whole 'Omi-Ouka-Rejii-Shuichi-Takatori' connection was revealed.

TAKATORI!!!!!! MIND_CRUSH!!!!!!! (oops, wrong anime... wrong VA, too; 'Gluehn' is next week. Maybe....)

Maybe this afternoon I'll take a bunch of books to the Paperback Exchange -- I've decided that really the only Charlaine Harris books I want to keep are the 'Harper Connollys' and there are a few other odd ones that I picked up earlier in the year, finally read and was less than enchanted.

A friend of ours burned a bootleg copy of TW:CoE and gave it to us last week.... didn't have the heart to tell him we'd probably never watch it.....

Translation Party meme,

Ganked from Daegaer:


Take the first lines of your last ten stories and run each of them through Translation Party http://translationparty.com/ until they reach equilibrium, or until the program gives up on you. Post the results.


1. If you are a bad time to balance the special physical factors, this problem is a result of bits and knives. Yeah, those 'bits and knives' are nothing but trouble!!!

2. This was more important than that! Dr. Seuss?

3. Follow a disciplined body and mind. My motivation is my uncle, 'In Britain, the following: whether the training of corporal punishment as a matter of what the next treatment is used. Is this another take on 'Hamlet'? -- oh Puh-leeze!!!!

4. "I was a Christian, and Bakula did not know." Argh! the Vampire trope -- it Burns!!!!

5. The pain was gone; not just the sharp splintery stabbing knives of shattered bone and the clawing tearing ripping of -- no, don't remember that, oh God, not now, not this! -- or even the mule-kick blow to the head more anticipated than actually felt it happened that sudden but no less hurtful or deadly for all that.... all of it was gone, even the bone-deep aches from old bruises, the grind and click of worn joints that bothered him more and more often of late, especially in the rare rainy spell at home or the almost as rare winter trips to Wyoming and his own personal paradise and purgatory rolled into one. (No equilibrium - I think it's tiny brain go X-splody)

6. It is not mine. No kidding!

7.The spring of last year's hottest bands, the final set, after the explosion, the band's last world tour, bright, earrings, the last chord of the song. earrings and C-4 -- not a good combination

7. Today is not a good day. no Change)

8. The sun lay well past noontide of the short autumn day when Connor MacLeod struck one final blow with his hammer and plunged the dull red iron bar into the water barrel standing beside his anvil. no change

9. "Rats!" no change

Translation Party meme,

Ganked from Daegaer:


Take the first lines of your last ten stories and run each of them through Translation Party http://translationparty.com/ until they reach equilibrium, or until the program gives up on you. Post the results.


1. If you are a bad time to balance the special physical factors, this problem is a result of bits and knives. Yeah, those 'bits and knives' are nothing but trouble!!!

2. This was more important than that! Dr. Seuss?

3. Follow a disciplined body and mind. My motivation is my uncle, 'In Britain, the following: whether the training of corporal punishment as a matter of what the next treatment is used. Is this another take on 'Hamlet'? -- oh Puh-leeze!!!!

4. "I was a Christian, and Bakula did not know." Argh! the Vampire trope -- it Burns!!!!

5. The pain was gone; not just the sharp splintery stabbing knives of shattered bone and the clawing tearing ripping of -- no, don't remember that, oh God, not now, not this! -- or even the mule-kick blow to the head more anticipated than actually felt it happened that sudden but no less hurtful or deadly for all that.... all of it was gone, even the bone-deep aches from old bruises, the grind and click of worn joints that bothered him more and more often of late, especially in the rare rainy spell at home or the almost as rare winter trips to Wyoming and his own personal paradise and purgatory rolled into one. (No equilibrium - I think it's tiny brain go X-splody)

6. It is not mine. No kidding!

7.The spring of last year's hottest bands, the final set, after the explosion, the band's last world tour, bright, earrings, the last chord of the song. earrings and C-4 -- not a good combination

7. Today is not a good day. no Change)

8. The sun lay well past noontide of the short autumn day when Connor MacLeod struck one final blow with his hammer and plunged the dull red iron bar into the water barrel standing beside his anvil. no change

9. "Rats!" no change