Mon. 6/25
We pull up to the Imperial, and from the outside I can tell it's expanded since I used to go to Lake Shore A.C. next door. I notice that kitty-corner from it on Fullerton is Charlie Trotter's To…
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Jun 26 2012
Jun 25 2012
Knee Blog, part deux: In the hospital
Sat. 6/23
Night melts into day with Bobby at my bedside--he arrived late last. night--and a rather insipid breakfast: since I did okay on ice chips last night, I get two jellos and an apple juice. No sooner do I…
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Jun 22 2012
My Knee Replacement Blog: What's a Joint Like You Doing in a Girl Like This?
Friday, 6/22/12
Today's the day! (Was supposed to have been ten days ago, but my surgeon had to take an urgent trip). NPO since 10 pm last night (when I finished the leftovers of Wed. night's Ruth's Chris steak and…
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Jan 9 2012
Happy New Year--an unusual resolution
Oh, great. Just as I got used to writing "2011" on all my checks, now it's 2012. Good thing I am writing less of them these days (thank you, PayPal and automatic payment plans). So I was thinking--what resolutions am…
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Jul 12 2011
Tax, Lies and Videotape--Political Mythbusters to the Rescue!
Okay, there really isn't "videotape." I mentioned it so the title would scan. But there are plenty of lies being blithely spread these days about taxes, spending, debt and deficits. And the way what passes for political discourse works these…
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Jun 30 2011
Calling all wine geeks: an experiment
Wine Geek glassware experiment
Had some time on my hands, and admitted to myself that I (mea culpa) occasionally drop some coin on extremely discretionary stuff. One of my hobbies is wine, and over the years we've been married (40…
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Apr 26 2011
Life Lessons: Early Morning Musings
Yes, you read correctly: "early morning." I am actually awake early in the morning. Of course, that is because I tried to get to sleep late at night without success. Part of the reason is, of course, that I woke…
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Jan 14 2011
Discourse or Disgust?
I have decided, for my part, to keep my rhetoric civil. "Civility," by the definition of the misinformed extremists who caused the "Civility Project" (GOP-founded, whose "civility promise" was signed by only four brave persons: two Republicans, one Independent, and…
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Jan 12 2011
Halting the Hating--a correction
A correction, indeed.....of my invective in the previous post. Watching the Tucson memorial service tonight, and listening to Pres. Obama's heartrending and inspiring speech, I have indeed been shamed out of exploiting this tragedy as an excuse to play the…
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Jan 12 2011
Halting the Hating to Help the Healing--why the heck not?
Regardless of whether the Tucson shooter was a Giffords-obsessed psychotic loner; regardless of who first started spouting the hate-and-violence-metaphor-laden vitriol; regardless of which side has used more of it; regardless of when it started; regardless of whether and whom this… Read more
Nov 26 2010
In praise of good equipment--kitchen edition
Holiday food season is upon us, and so I sing the praises of GOOD EQUIPMENT. It's said "a poor workman blames his tools," but even an ace can be stymied by cheap implements. Prepping yesterday's Thanksgiving dinnner, for the first…
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Nov 26 2010
Thanksgiving catch-up (no, not the condiment)
Whoa--have I been THAT remiss in updating this blog? Life sure does get in the way these days. First, thanks to all who expressed touching and heartfelt expressions of sympathy over my father-in-law's passing. So many of his friends, neighbors…
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