- Thursday, September 24, 2009
After seeing the Refrigerator display (see previous post below), I was back at the GOOD website, looking at comments from people who viewed the photos displayed on the article.
While I was looking, a fat cell in my brain either melted or popped, and I recalled a photo I took [once upon a time], which I posted on my weblog. Instead of a photograph of my refrigerator, I had taken one of my pantry. This happened after a sizable invasion of ants made its way into my house; most likely to get out of the rain, and I had to evacuate the food that had been in the pantry and then spray insecticide in the spaces least likely to come into direct contact with boxes of food.
I was wondering if I had actually posted this photo, or if I had planned on doing so, yet never got around to actually posting the picture. I do know that I had taken some photos of the pantry, but have no memory of which year it was that any of this may have occurred.
While searching for the post that might contain the image, I read some of the old posts from April 2004. Having noticed that what I had to say was (in the very least) more interesting than it has been in the past 2 years (possibly longer), I feel inspired to write... more often or at least, about better things than as of late.
Here are a few more posts that I found amusing:
True Grit -- and a few more in that vicinity -- like
this untitled (and very short) one.
Way back in 2002, I shared a link to Dancing Paul... (a site which is still up and seems to be doing fairly well).
Among other "found things", I came across this one, which contemplates the possibility that I may have a pseudo-psycholgical identity.
Is it wrong that I have read some of these old posts and laughed?
Unfortunately, I have not yet found the post I was looking for.
But, I did find this one, which is at least ABOUT the pantry. If I find the one I was looking for, I'll come back and post it as a "post-posted thought".
I found it... [picture]
pero @ 8:40 AM | œ | 9 comments
You are what you eat...
Tonight, I am a pork tenderloin... or perhaps I am a green leaf lettuce salad with grape tomatoes, or perhaps I am left-over chicken stir-fry with a bit of white rice (which was what I had for lunch). Unless I should backtrack to breakfast, in which case I would be "nothing"... unless you count a 20 oz black coffee "breakfast".Yes, I do realize that I should not "skip" meals. I was simply out of edibles, which led me to venture out and shop for some groceries this afternoon. I picked up (just about) everything on my list... the cost of the items came to just over $205.00. I am now the proud, albeit temporary, owner of food. [At least, that is unless Tim drops by.] Either way, I filled my pantry and refrigerator with nutritional goods.
"You are what you eat" is an idiom that I had heard often enough, but still didn't know where exactly it came from, or how it came to be so widely used, so I looked it up:
What you eat determines how healthy of a person you are. So to be fit you must eat healthy. It was first used in the 1960's (during the hippy era). It originally referred to eating wholefood.
Show Opening: You Are What You Eat This show is set for tomorrow, and I may just drop in on them to see what it's about.
pero @ 8:58 PM | œ | 0 comments
What the... ???? !
ok, so lately, the SHIFT key on the left-hand side of my keyboard has been acting up... [read that as not working half of the time]. This means that much of what i would capitalize using said left-shift-key [that would be the right-hand typed letters] - do not capitalize as i wish.
Today, the left-shift-key popped off my laptop. i tried to re-attach it via directions from a couple of websites [both of which sell parts such as this] -- and i was unsuccessful in my quest, having lost any sense of patience that i once had.
Tim dropped by to do laundry or some other such random favor or perk [such as FREE directTV with all of the channels] that he often takes advantage of having; and i passed the aforementioned powerbook to him and asked if he could possibly have more patience than myself in fixing the key-cap. he was able to get the stupidpieceofshit thing back on, however, it did not stay on - so that is chalked up to [along with my previous attempt] 'failure'.
So, here i am, attempting to type this post - unable to properly capitalize any of the left-hand shift key used letters... which causes the right-hand side letters to be not be capitalized. [Sure, i could go through the trouble of using the right-hand shift key and twist my hands around to capitalize said left-hand letters, but what would be the fun in that]!
So, now, i have ordered a replacement keyboard for around 85 u.s. dollars [plus shipping] and have to deal with this missing left-hand shift key for about five days. [give or take].
pero @ 3:18 PM | œ | 5 comments
I was attempting to place a pizza order and the website was less-than-cooperative...
Usually, online ordering is less of a hassle than talking to some person who seems to feel as if i am bothering them by placing an order. But then, I don't know how they are generally treated by the callers-- people could very well call them and say something along the lines of, "gimme pizza, you (fill in your favorite insult here)."
This is the reason I keep a DiGiorno pizza on hand when it's there. (Sometimes, I have one in the freezer and think about baking it, and when I get to the freezer, I find that it has disappeared or otherwise was stolen and consumed by someone else.)
If you are still looking at the picture and haven't figured out why it was included, here is a hint:
Something is MISSING.
pero @ 8:27 PM | œ | 5 comments
