I'm uploading my snow photos to flickr, and it's taking forever.

I just had some awesome barbecue, there's a sandwich/catering place that once a month (or in this case once a month and Super Bowl Sunday) has a guy come in and do bbq. So Mom and I went and we got to see an actual grown adult male pout and whine like a 5 year old.

He came in and was meeting a friend, the waitress sat him down and showed him the menu. He looks at it and pouted: "No french fries?" "No corn on the cob"?

The waitress says they have sweet potato fries, potato salad, baked beans, cole slaw, and texas toast.

Finally his friend comes in and the guy whines... "they don't have corn on the cob, or french fries or . " His friend sensibly points out the other options and the guy whines through them. "But I DON'T like potato salad. I don't LIKE baked Beans."

Finally they get up and leave and he even whines to the owner about the choices.

As soon as the door closed everyone started laughing. It was unreal. It was seriously like listening to a 4 or 5 year old whine.

What place, askye?

And we did mini-exploring, in our own neighborhood, with unexpectedly fabulous results. We'd noticed a game store a few blocks away from our house, so we decided to trek over there and OMG is it fabulous! With lots of excellent German board games and card games and all sorts of creative types of activities and such. They have game nights and such, so that'll be good to keep an eye on.

Now I'm home and about to cook a beef tenderloin.

Inventor unveils $7,000 talking sex robot

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It looks like Ann Coulter!

P-C, what was the clog made of? How long have you been in the apt? If short time, I would argue that there wasn't enough time for a gent with short hair and no gf to clog the drain that far down.

I've been here over three years and never had a drainage issue in the tub before.

Aww, Logo is showing School Hard right now.

My snow photos start here: [link]

I'm really enjoying all the snow pictures. Very pretty.

In our exploring, last week a gallery was taking down a show for one artist and mounting one for several, in various media. "We're expecting a lot of Vancouver traffic, and we want to show off our local artists." Early this week, we passed a commercial dairy farm and a church which are going to be Park-n-rides. At both locations, fleets of shuttle buses, hundreds of them, with "vancouver 2010" and the Olympics symbol emblazoned on their sides.

We can see White Rock across the Straight of Georgia from Blaine, where we drive through occasionally. Yesterday we drove into Canada to White Rock to look back at Blaine. White Rock is a gorgeous little resort town full of shops and restaurants and houses carved and terraced onto the hills down to the shore. It reminds me a lot of coastal towns in Italy in the movies, or of Sausalito. There were a couple of guys in white running suits with "Russia" emblazoned across the back, posing for pictures with the locals.

So, we've been 'sploring, and I don't regret it.

But I look at Barb's office pictures and realize how far from finished my office--and my living room--are. But I console myself with the thought that there will be wall-to-wall built-in shelves to counter height across the end wall, and floor-to-ceiling built-ins on either side of the big window. That'll be home to a lot of books, plus photographs and the odd bibelot.

Built-in bookshelves in the bedrooms, too. Plus there are several book-donation places here, in case we decide to do another cull.

I do have pictures I need to put up, of intermediary stages. I should get on that.

Askye, how funny. And a little bit sad that an adult can't comfort himself with what's available.

sj, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I can't think of a thing to do about it, other than braining the woman with an iron skillet next time you meet. Oh no, that's my fantasy encroaching on your reality. I hope things get better.

Uptown Cafe Midtown. The guy doing the bbq is Jimbo so Fred has a stamp and menu's that say Jimbo's BBQ @ Uptown.