Greased Melon

cool temperatures. it hit 38 here last night. quite nice, really.
homemade apple sauce, the last of the family “products” i had yet to learn (last year was chili and peanut brittle). ended up being one of those “mom throws flour all over her face before leaving the kitchen with…rice krispie treats” moments. […]

I found two neat things about fat this week. The first was that Six out of 10 Britons would rather die than exercise. This is hilariously troubling. I’m guessing that here in the US, 67% of people are either overweight or obese, we’d find the same thing.
Then today I found this one: […]

Bless the stick figures, so that we may be safe.

good weekend.

rode my bike
finished one of my favorite books
got my record player fixed
drank some good beer
got some new good beer
hung out with friends
ate some cookies and ice cream

Bits and Pieces:
Mark Funkhouser and Alvin Brooks made it to the Kansas City Mayoral runoff election at the end of the month. Brooks represents the same old “we’re a great town because we suck” mentality that’s bothered me since I’ve lived here.
The weather is starting to “get there.” Rode yesterday and will piddle […]

And this was just in my tiny little world. To recap:

Massive fire in the East Bottoms sends large (hazardous?) chemical cloud over downtown Kansas City. Awesome live coverage by that forum…local news, outside the cool helicoptors, was completly worthless.
Steve Jobs says “You’re mean!” to the record companies (this is a blog post about […]

That’s a line from Dan Conner on Roseanne.
KC ended up with 3 or so inches of ice, sleet, and non-categorizable frozen precipitation starting early Friday. And then today the bottom dropped out on the thermometer–it’s currently 12 degrees at lunch time and we hit our high earlier this morning. After not touching my […]