The Man Can
February 13th, 2007
I’ve shown this site to many people. Most of the men love it but the women are not overly impressed.
Roto-Rooter has designed the “Pimped Out John” It boasts a Kohler Cimarron toilet that is supposedly eco-friendly, power and built for comfort complete with seat warmer. A kegarator, a 4.3 cu. foot refrigerator with beer tap included by Avanti. A USB powered cup cooler/warmer. A Baseline resistive pedal exerciser so you can exercise on the throne. An Apple IPod, a Gateway eMachine notebook, a 20′ Phillips LCD monitor, a TiVo digital recorder, a Phillips Progressive Scan DVD recorder and an XBox 360 system. Also included is a personal cooling fan and a magnifying mirror.
Apparently, the average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom. That’s 1 year, 4 months and 5 days. So Roto-Rooter decided to make the experience a little more exciting. They are offering up this Man Can in a contest that ends April 2, 2007.
You can enter the contest providing you are 18, not a Roto-Rooter employee and are a legal resident of the 50 states. If you win, they will even come and install it for you.
The winner is to be announced on International Plumber’s Day, April 25, 2007.
Take Care!
It’s Almost Valentine’s Day
February 12th, 2007
There seems to be 3 camps when it comes to V-Day.
1. “OH MY GOD, I HAVE to get something over the top romantic from my significant other or that means s/he doesn’t love me.”
2. “Whatever! It’s just a day, here’s your card, chocolate and candy. I love you!”
3. “Greeting card propaganda. I hate it, I refuse to participate and I’m thinking of going postal on Cupid!”
There seems to be a growing trend of people going over to the “Postal on Cupid” side and websites have sprung up denouncing V-Day as being just short of evil.
There’s the AntiVDay forum with a membership of just over 2100 people. American Greetings has added Anti-Vvalentine’s Day cards to its line and Cafepress offers a line of Anti-Valentine’s Day T-shirts and gifts. There’s a blog with a list of Anti-Loves Songs, a blog with a How-to-AntiValentine video plus a whole host of other Anti sites.
Put “anti valentines” into Google and you get “Results 1 - 10 of about 1,660,000 for anti valentines”
Wile I’m not one of those over the top romantics, I do think that having 1 day to celebrate love is nice. The rest of the year we are inundated with war, crime, hate and general overall ickiness. One day to celebrate that people can come together, rejoice in their appreciation of each other and demonstrate it in sentimental way can’t be all bad.
Unless you’re single or your significant other is a card carrying member of the Death to Cupid club.
Take care
Mom’s Fudge
February 9th, 2007
3 cups Brown Sugar
1/2 lb butter (not margarine)
6 oz. Carnation Milk (not 2%)
4 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix together brown sugar, butter and carnation milk
Bring to a rolling boil over medium heat for 5 minutes after bubbles form
Remove from heat
Add in 4 1/2 cups of icing sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Mix using electric mixer on “stir” until all mixed and no lumps. Approx 5 minutes.
Pour into greased square pan 9?x9?x1-1/2? deep.
Source: Mom
Technology Marches on…
February 8th, 2007
…Right past me.
Last night I dropped my cell phone. I was thrilled that it didn’t split into a million little pieces and let out a huge sigh of relief. Then I flipped it open. Sigh. My LCD screen was cracked and while the crack resulted in a beautiful psychedelic screen display, it rendered the phone basically useless. I couldn’t see anything on the lovely screen.
So this morning, off I went to my local cell store. I politely asked the VERY young man if I could get the same phone. Silly me. He rolled his eyes and informed me that my phone was over 3 FULL years old (he made it sound like 3 decades) and that it was obsolete. Then I asked if I could get something that would allow me to use all the paraphernalia that I had previously purchased. More eye rolling and another resounding “No!”
We moved on.
I asked for something with a flip as I hate making pocket calls (those accidental calls you make to people where they hear everything you’re saying and doing because you’ve bumped the call button while the phone was in your pocket). He brought me “THE newest, most “in” phone that EVERYone is using now”. Hmmm. It weighed less than a marshmallow, didn’t flip but it did slide, you’d have to have Barbie sized fingers to use the keypad and looked like it could endure about 10 slides before self-destructing. I asked to see something a little less cool and way more solid. At this point I wanted to pull out the time honoured classic mother line, “If you keep doing that your eyes are going to stay that way”. He then pulled out a nice little phone with enough heft to it that I could use it as a self-defense weapon and said “I’ve sold some of these to old people”. I gave him my best Vulcan eyebrow mother intimidation glare and checked out the phone. It was nice and it was free if I renewed my cell plan. I decided it was the one and the salesman looked like he was going to try, one more time, to move my social acceptance status up a notch but this time the glare worked and he said nothing.
I took my new toy home and played for over an hour to get it set up the way I wanted it. Of course, I can’t set it up like I use to have it; I guess my old settings are obsolete also. I then proceeded to my cell phone burial spot, a box on the top shelf of the hall cupboard. I took down the box and solemnly reminisced over its contents. My old DynaTAC Motorola, my first “sleek” phone, a Nokia with all it’s extra batteries and various chargers, my first flip, a Motorola TeleTAC and a host of others all with accessories and cases. All useless after a very brief time. I gently placed my newest old piece of technology, with its 110V charger, its car charger, its headset and its case into the box and took a moment to reflect on my loss.
Wait a second, this might not be so bad, this new phone has a built in camera. What seemed like a burdensome change can now be used as a weapon of annoyance. Alright!
Take care!
Cottage Cheese Pancakes
February 7th, 2007
1 egg
1/4 cup cottage cheese
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon oil
Pinch salt
Oil
Separate egg into 2 small bowls. Beat egg white until it forms soft peaks. Set aside. Add remaining ingredients to egg yolks. Beat with electric mixer until smooth. Stir about 1/5 of beaten egg white into yolk mixture to soften batter. Fold in remaining egg white until blended.
Heat a large oiled skillet over medium heat, about 375F (190C). Drop batter by spoonfuls onto hot skillet and spread with back of spoon to form 3-inch circles. When underside is golden brown and edges begin to dry, turn and brown other side.
Servings: 4 - 5
This recipe comes from a wonderful book called: Cookery for 1 or 2 - Barbara Swain.
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