my local to work bakery has discontinued my favorite dessert. I told them I was lodging a complaint and they did not seem to care. This from a often 2-3 visits/week customer (ok, so they have manyhundred visitors/day). hates them.

so now I am coughy and congested and have NO DESSERT! clearly I should be given the rest of the day off.

So I called my 81-year-old mom last night and she wasn't home. She finally called me around midnight her time and I asked as a joke, "Where were you--out clubbing?" "I WAS!" she told me. And she was! An old friend of hers is a cabaret singer ( [link] ) and she was performing at a jazz club in downtown DC. My mom, Aunt and Uncle and a some other friends of hers-- a group of people in their 80s--went into town to see her and they all apparently had a wonderful time.

I think we all should plan on clubbing in our 80s, Buffistas!

I did almost all my clubbing in the 80s.

I went clubbing once with my boss.

I went to a bar with a nun.

I went to a bar with a nun.

What happened to the Rabbi and the duck?

Lunch update: I'm having "Traditional Lentil soup" by Healthy Choice. It's... not very good.

I think we all should plan on clubbing in our 80s, Buffistas!

Absolutely! One night this summer, I was hanging out with a friend and her 70-ish dad -- we went to a concert, but he totally thought we were lame not wanting to hit the clubs after!

Sadly, I have not found any of the Healthy Choice soups very good.

Lunch update: I'm having "Traditional Lentil soup" by Healthy Choice. It's... not very good.

I made hot and sour soup for JZ last night. My big epiphany about hot and sour soup is you just need to add fresh lemon juice and some hot sauce to make it hot and sour. I was emulating her favorite Vietnamese soup so it had: tofu, onions, tomatoes, pineapple, garlic, red bell pepper and noodles. Vegetarian stock, natch. You wouldn't think the pineapple would work, but it does.