Mmmm, a few fun articles on chocolate in Chicago (Chicago Tribune reg req'd), including how to taste test your chocolate and when's the best time to smell the chocolate factory near the Loop.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2005 2:11:40 pm PDT #7937 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
ChiKat - Jul 07, 2005 2:28:05 pm PDT #7938 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
a few fun articles on chocolate in Chicago (Chicago Tribune reg req'd), including how to taste test your chocolate and when's the best time to smell the chocolate factory near the Loop.
Oohhh... I haven't read the article yet, but winter mornings are the best time for smelling the factory based on my experience. Makes me crave hot chocolate when I get to work.
brenda m - Jul 07, 2005 2:41:52 pm PDT #7939 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wow. That dog is some Jesus ugly.
Kat - Jul 07, 2005 2:42:37 pm PDT #7940 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
mmm... chocolate.
So, I finished teaching for the week. Now, I'm at home, waiting for temps to cool before I go for a walk. I just realized I'm going to be in Palm Desert tomorrow. It's way to hot to go further into the hot and the AC on my car is sketchy. I don't have time to get it fixed before I leave. Meep.
lori - Jul 07, 2005 3:52:34 pm PDT #7941 of 10001
You can take my car, although that's not nearly as much fun.
tommyrot, thanks for the link to the old-school electronic games - I'd totally forgotten that I had a Blip game! Also had Merlin, Mattel Football I, Football II, the Auto Racing one, the spaceship shoot'em up which was exactly the Auto Racing run in reverse. And my neighbor friends had Mattel Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, and Hockey. And someone we knew had one of the Coleco Head-to-Head jobbies.
I still have my Football II.
DXMachina - Jul 07, 2005 3:55:45 pm PDT #7942 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I still have a Mattel Hockey around somewhere.
lori - Jul 07, 2005 3:56:13 pm PDT #7943 of 10001
Fire bad, tree pretty. Tree on Fire, sad-making.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2005 3:58:32 pm PDT #7944 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You're welcome.
My brother and I had Fooball (I or II) - we both got to the point where we could take up an entire half with one posesion, scoring a touchdown when the clock had ran out (thus preventing the other player from getting more than one posession the entire game). This was, in fact, the best way to win....
Jesse - Jul 07, 2005 4:16:43 pm PDT #7945 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That dog was effed up looking.
sara, I'm sorry for your coworker, but stunned that you've each been in the same job for eight years! That blows my mind.
thegrommit - Jul 07, 2005 4:58:48 pm PDT #7946 of 10001
Um.
Those into old school video games may want to check out a bar in Brooklyn called Barcade. Lots of American micro-brews and a few dozen classics like Centipede, Ms Pacman, Out-Run, etc.