add lead to the handle & you’re superman…
Or as I like to call it – – Back Up the Truck Day…costs much more for companies to ship back most products (especially fresh items) than to just hand them out as they near close. Just have to stay one step ahead of those pesky food bank interlopers. Don’t worry, I’m bringing my shillelagh…
they’re still talking about the 15 cases of trojan lube i scored at a trade show…or was that nervous laughter…
First of all, let it be known that McCormick Place is run by complete and total morons. Probably gonna run for office in the near future. Not only were parking lots A, B & C filled, we had to park in the Soldier Field garage…and as we walked out we saw they’d closed that lot, too! Here’s a shot of the empty lot we had to walk across to get to McCormick Place – – you know, an empty lot that maybe should have been filled with cars!?
Urban Cultivator has a whole line of both commercial and home use appliances to grow your own herms and greens year-round! Cool idea and I wish they would run a contest (don’t think they’ll follow my suggestion…)
You would not believe how much organic and heirloom vegetables they had on display and for snacking – – let’s just say they were either very interested in giving away clamshells – – or just wanted me to leave. either way…
This is my favorite sorbetto brand in the world! The one with ghost peppers rocks – – this was one of the main reasons I came back this year (I cleaned out mango when Walgreens actually carried something other than DeLish or Nice or Frozen Crap). I was trading insults with a gentleman near the truck when I suddenly noticed the name on his badge … Palazzolo. too late, already got my sorbetto, sucker!
I’ve bought this ginger ale at Whole Foods! It’s wonderful. They’re brand-new in this area and the ginger is unfiltered, which means you actually see the stuff you’re drinking. Tried a few of their products, but didn’t want bathroom breaks to cut into the dining experience, ya know?
Looking for gluten-free products? Tons of distributors were showing and feeding.
I’m probably going to Hell already, but tomorrow I am definitely taking video of this demonstrator – something that makes you lose weight by shaking. Someone showed me a video of a very fat woman (although this guy jiggled plenty) bending over – – looked like human jello. I needed eye drops afterward…
And with all the seafood and prime rib booths offering large helpings, what stands do you think had lines practically out the door – same as every year? The hot dog ones! And please explain to me why a convention that features all varieties of food and beverages (ALL) would have so many people chowing down at the McDonalds right inside the door…
Okay, this was on the road back through downtown Chicago, by the lake – – sign says rebuilding Chicago. What, one leg at a time? Just what is up with this entire field of torso bottoms? and not even anatomically correct…
Other items of note: There was one old guy in a scooter that wasn’t working right – apparently the outlets near his display were dead so his scooter didn’t have the power to make it all the way back to parking lot Soldier Field (aka South John Hancock!). He didn’t even have enough power to run up the ramp to exit the damned building! FirstBorn pushed the thing all the way back to his car…which wouldn’t have been so horrible, but for the fact that the brakes kept coming on and locking! At one point, FirstBorn was pushing mightily along when the brakes suddenly unfroze and the scooter shot forward like a projectile – funniest damned thing ever (the guy was fine). Tried to pay us off…but he didn’t have his car title with him. No seriously, we said no, he wanted to shake FirstBorn’s hand, but I made sure he didn’t have any cash to palm off. Wiped out my son, though; said he was taking a nap when we got home!
I will be at the National Restaurant Show today and tomorrow. Today is a full day with lots of food and samples – tomorrow ends at 3…I call it the give away all the large amounts of food since it costs more to ship day. Of course, I have to stay one step of those annoying Food Bank people…
I’ll be posting pictures throughout the day, so take a look at the Flickr feed.
First we had the orientation for the new Seed Bank program at the library (cool, huh? a seed bank to foster the heirlooms – you even check out the seeds at circulation!), then a RUSH over to the high school where they were just calling the names of the members of the Scholastic Bowl as we walked in. PITA dumped her coat and got in line and received not only the certificate, but a congratulatory letter personally addressed and signed by Sandra Pihos. Forgive the picture, but it was with my phone and I was in the very back. PITA is the skinny rat in the white patent leather Doc Martens…always a fashion maven is PITA!
gotta call over there tomorrow…seems the check must have fallen out of the envelope…
I periodically get emails from dogs who enjoy the site (wait, does Google Analytics even have a canine category? ).
Here’s the latest email – I’ve taken out the names ’cause he’s shy…why does a dog who licks his butt (I presume) in public even care?
Let’s see, what’s new around here? I continue to beat the alpha bitch to the back of the yard when we’re let out and that pisses her off, so it’s fun to do. Oh, and get this, Owner had the gall to leave me outside for ten minutes to see if maybe I’d play or as she put it “be a real dog” and get my dose of vitamin D. I stood outside the door, scratched up the paint and bitched at her. I mean, really? Who the hell does she think she is? Hasn’t she heard of skin cancer? I needed to be inside to monitor her floor scrubbing skills.
Owner has been “working” 90-110 hours a week. I take my job as muse/supervisor seriously and sit between her calves while she’s on the computer. Every once in awhile I roll my eyes at her to remind her that she really needs to get a handle on her time management skills.
I’ve been forced to eat grain free dog food and for one week my eye goop cleared up. Owner started to get excited, so I made sure to get the eye goop back. I can’t let her feel victorious and get too big for her britches. She’s fat enough; go up another size and our chairs might break.
I have to say the other dogs here are pretty stupid. I’ve always known I was superior to them on so many levels, but we were taking turns chasing each other and I jumped into a hole that “panicky colitis boy” dug and the other dogs ran right over me. They couldn’t find me! I stuck my head up and showed Owner my tooth so she knew where I was and that I was okay and then I hunkered back down in my hiding spot. Those idiots sniffed all around the yard and came up empty.
The Nana woman who sends me pieces of plastic in the mail is coming for a visit. While I’ve been promised many more treats if I’m good, I’ve also been warned that I can’t run around her feet in a circle or throw myself down in front of her and beg for a belly rub or possibly trip her. I’ve already let it be known that since she’s not my blood relative, I don’t have to participate, other than spilled food cleanup duty (if it’s something good).
Oh, and Happy Mother’s Day!
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Basically, if you sell on Amazon to folks in Florida…you’re screwed. Click here to read the entire article – — interesting and short. Midwest isn’t too horrible but I’m gonna be spending a whole lot more time indoors!
(CNN) — A number of themes emerge from the regional reports included in the National Climate Assessment — things like risks to infrastructure due to rising oceans both benefits and harm to agricultural production because of changing temperature, and new realities for cooling and heating costs.
Find your geographic region below and see how these issues specifically affect where you live, according to the report.
NORTHWEST
If you live in the Northwest, you can appreciate how vital the snow accumulation in the mountains is. It melts in spring to provide water for hydropower plants and irrigation for crops. But as seasonal water patterns change, caused in part by changes in snowmelt, the region’s diverse ecology and geography can face challenges.
HOT DAMN!!!! – My new baby is arriving early …
(Reuters) – Apple Inc will unveil the next incarnation of its popular iPhone series in August, one month earlier than industry watchers were generally expecting, Taiwanese media reported on Friday citing unidentified supply-chain sources.
A 4.7-inch screen version of the iPhone 6 will reach stores in August, the Economic Daily News reported without specifying which markets would receive the phone first.
A 5.5-inch or 5.6-inch model will be released in September, the newspaper said, as the iPhone 5 series was previously. Check here for the entire article.
Since I told PITA she could have my i5 when I get a 6 she’s gonna be up my butt big time now. gonna be hard to tell the difference, though, with her behavior lately…
PITA in silk prom dress – veddy Downton Abbey
This has been the week from Hell:
In addition to the usual insanity, PITA is graduating. I know she looks like she’s twelve and has the usual teenager disposition of a two year old on a sugar high, but this meant shopping for a prom dress and senior banquet dress and shoes. So Wednesday night was Senior Banquet and we took her and picked her up (stopping in between for some KFC!!). Saturday was Prom, which entailed hysteria over nail polish (how do you get turquoise nail polish on bath towels…and how do you remove it?), make-up, hair in a bun (you have short hair…if you want a bun STOP CUTTING IT!), no wallet (well…I kinda lost it a couple of days ago and I’ve been looking all over [I found it later on the dining room table under a sheet of paper – no joke] and whole lot of other nonsense that deeply cut into my pedicure time – why yes, I am up for Bad Mother of Year, so please vote for me.
She was supposed to return to the high school at 3 AM!(!), so I deputized FirstBorn to pick her up. Well, he claims ordered him with no choice, but it’s tomatoes, tomahtoes as far as I can see and he tends to get anxious when he’s been too long away from Minecraft. ’cause there ain’t no way I’m either going to be awake at 3 am or waking up to drive and pick her up – – do what the rest of us did when we tried to get home in the middle of the night…hitch!
Buses didn’t return until 4 am, which means he sat in a parking lot for an hour. which is undoubtedly my fault as well.
Today I was up early to sell at a flea market…which totally sucked because there were approximately 184,788 people there…all just looking. Only thing they all seemed to be buying was massive quantities of junk food. Only thing I got was a weirdly-shaped sunburn…which PITA keeps poking.
Then I bought three full flats of flowers and three pots of geraniums and some fruit, which pretty much wiped out the day’s receipts, and headed over to my house to pick up FirstBorn and PITA for a trip to Mamaland, where I planted said flowers and got wet.
So now I’m going up to bed and starting over tomorrow morning. Gawd, I sure hope your weekend was an improvement over mine! And keep commenting – – I need the laughs.
From USA Today. To read the entire article, click here. Apparently this concept started in Hong Kong about ten years ago.
On Thursday, the same day McDonald’s announced that domestic sales were flat in April, the company confirmed to USA TODAY that it will begin testing seasoned fries — dubbed Shakin’ Flavor Fries — on Friday in the Northern California and St. Louis markets.
The seasonings: Garlic Parmesan, Zesty Ranch and Spicy Buffalo. But here’s the rub: You don’t buy the fries pre-seasoned. Instead, they come with special packets of seasoning that consumers are advised to open, pour and shake into a specially made mixing bag. Imprinted on the bags: “Seasoned fries. Shake your taste buds.”
