Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

firebird n. U.S. Dial. any of several small birds having bright red or orange plumage, esp. the Baltimore oriole.

• Today's temperature range: 2 to -6 F. ::shivery shudder::
• The cabbie looked at Carl and shook his head. "Two constables came and dragged him away. I thought the mannikin seemed sad afterward." #nwm
• "Mayhap she just mirrored what the audience wanted, though, like she was ordered. I don't know more." Maybe, but Carl knew who would. #nwm
• -- After an hour wrangling stupid mortgage people to get insurance check cashed,
• -- Came home to find Fu Manchu had left wreckage of broken glass and scattered origami flowers in my study.
• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! (heartwarming) ping.fm/Kuuwr
• Best ad email subject line today: "You Are Feeling Generous with the Meow Mix, yes...."

• There's soldiering through, and soldering through, and I think I'd prefer the latter.
• Highly entertaining recipe for bizarrely awesome Chilli-Dog Casserole: ping.fm/uuAQG
• Still a favorite: "Her thoughts ran in circles like a cockroach with one of its antennae cut off."
• I've cut 40,000 words and I'm still at 165,000 in Vicesteed. Tra-la-la! Need to get to 110,000.
• Oh, yeah. I stopped revising here 'cause I was fretting about that extensive rewrite. Now I remember.

• What are gamuts doing when they're not being covered?
• My refrigerator is overflowing with leftovers. Anybody want to come over for dinner redux?

• 12:17 Getting "Egyptian Walking Onions" from the CSA today. They may come with an ancient curse, but they're tasty!
• 18:50 Staring at the Wiscon schedule in panic, trying to figure out what I need to pack.

• 13:28 Things seemingly lacking a standardized spelling: maskmaker/mask-maker/mask maker. Grr.
• 14:13 From the WTF Files...Do they call him Horsley the political candidate? No. ping.fm/8TGsu
• 23:05 For when you've got time to waste--definitive internet phenoms: http://www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com//

• 15:28 Fellow coffee-shopper talking about seismic or volcanic events, cuneiform, and cracking some code.
• 15:31 Other coffee-shopper, to girl he seems to be on coffee date with: "I don't swim. I'm sure if I fell out of a boat, I'd learn."
• 15:40 Girl on date just said she feels like she has "so much to live for." Back away slowly.
• 15:51 Guy on date just raised his arms in the air as if to say, "Goal!" I think this means he thinks he's scoring.
• 15:53 He said he wanted to see her sarcasm. She says, "I generally don't release it the first time I meet someone."
• 15:59 Dear dude on date: "I don't think I'll get married until I'm 35," is the *wrong* answer.
• 16:00 She talked him into admitting that 30 was "a good age" to get married. This is hilarious.
• 16:06 Guy to date: "I'm usually the one who has random animal facts."
• 19:02 Typo of the day: "coffee ship."

• 13:43 Joined Online Writing Workshop. Any other writingy folk members? ping.fm/rTW3o
• 16:58 So, if you decimate a myriad of foes, you'll have 9,000 left. Not very good, really. ping.fm/oDmrd
• 17:39 - It *would* start raining again right before I have to go catch bus to martial arts class. Ah, well. Still not melty.

• 09:06 Other bus rider has put black tape over the "Vegan" logo on his bag. Wonder if he's gone back to dairy?
• 14:48 Found Nuclear War under my coffee table. Wonder where it came from? (Yes, it's a card.)
• 15:50 Know what the *only* definition for "tea-leaf" in Webster's Unabridged is? "Brit. slang: a thief."
• 16:45 Bellydancing, burlesque, & magic? Kinda want to see this show: ping.fm/0E8Ho
• 17:40 Right now my Sunday schedule is church, then tea party, then burlesque show. ::is amused::
• 19:24 Being stalked by spam again. 'Reynold' has sent me an email saying, "You are like the sunshine so warm." #spam

Mono, originally uploaded by aswiebe.

I do not think this was as good a name for a business as they thought it was. Taken in Uptown.