What made you smile today?

Hi - always great to see you!

Plans tonight to go to a Latin Jazz performance at a nearby Ethiopian restaurant with a group of friends I got to know through classes at dance studios around town. I'm smiling thinking about it all - music, friends, injera, beer, chocolate, spiced Ethi-tea. And of course the pile of snow about to be dumped on us

Does Canada account for the largest per capita consumption of Hot Chocolate of any nation in the Galaxy?

Not that I know of. It's not that commonly available.

We do consume more KD than any other group of humans.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/kraft-dinner-officially-adopts-its-made-in-canada-nickname-1.2495727

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/02/21/why-do-canadians-eat-so-much-kraft-mac-n-cheese/

you've reminded me of a story

1976

I was working as a hostess for the on-site posh restaurant for the Sailing Olympics (met the Queen and all that jazz) in my hometown

anyway

after the Swedish team <swoooooon Swedish men in Speedos> won gold in an event, they came into the restaurant. they wanted hot chocolate. blank stares all around. I went to talk to the chef then left in a cab to buy the ingredients. The chef prepared the hot chocolate while the bartender figured out what he could serve it in. I practiced walking backwards in heels with a tray of empty mugs and then delivered two trays of hot chocolate to the team. It was pretty wonderful being a starstruck teen being praised by a dozen beautiful men.

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other smile-making memory from that event - meeting the mayor of Tallinn, Estonia and receiving a personal invitation to the Sailing Olympics which would be held there in 1980. I couldn't go because of my mother's iffy relationship with East Germany and Russia. I still have the folder with the invitation.

Ah, a long time pal left Tallinn as a child with her family, fleeing first to Sweden and then to the US. No chance they will get their big family home back; she tried to claim it for her children years later. What makes me smile about it? our friendship.

Its the fat and salt content of K mac n cheese.
(We make it that way so as not to offend the Merkin Republicans who are,as a species, rather insecure in their own sexuality and , are required by membership in their party to eschew cheeses of any kind except for Mac, n... and velveeta cheese food in a cheeseburger. ( all GOP approved foods containing "cheeses" must be made with artificial "CHEESELON" ( we true cheese eaters call it that)

mac n cheese is American

KD is Canajun

I bet there are quite a few Canadians who wouldn't know what you were talking about if you asked them about mac n cheese, even if they were inhaling their 4th or 5th serving of KD that week at the time.

My new eyeballs. OK, just the lenses.
It is so weird being able to see w/o glasses

same stuff different box?

My wife makes a family recipe mac and cheese with tomatoes in there. Other than that, I dont much care for it.

How are you doing getting them in and out?

you oughta have em do something about your ears Dobby,

spent the morning herding the chicken. Saw the hawks and dont wann lose any more so I put em in thir coop. I have two chickens that follow me around all over so when Im outside they are right by my side like puppy dogs. Well, today they jumped up on the tractor bucket and as I was driving down the road, these two chickens are sitting on the raised bucket like tourists in a jitney. I had no idea where they got it from. I didnt teach em and its the first time they were near the tractor.

same stuff, same box, different name

we don't eat mac and cheese, we eat KD (even if made from scratch - we call it homemade KD)

Cataracts? Lasik?

Cataracts, so had lens replacement. I was starting to think the world was painted by Monet.
My eye Dr. recommended against Lasik even without cataracts.
Seeing the results now, I think he made the right call.

Was going to but GF said she liked 'em that way.

after snapping off the left nose piece on my glasses yet again, i got a free replacement at an eye glass shop downtown -- free of charge...

Got the apple iMac 27 back from the service peeps.

New screen, and new HDD, and all the files and software still intact.