Monthly Archives: June 2009

Irony

The Dinosaur BBQ is look­ing to open a restau­rant in Troy. Yay, I say!
My cel­e­bra­tion politely ignores the fact that in decades of liv­ing in, then peri­od­i­cally vis­it­ing Syra­cuse, I have never vis­ited the orig­i­nal Dinosaur. Details, details. I do have a lot of great t-shirts from there, though.

Animal announcement

Lola the ham­ster is actu­ally a boy. I don’t blame his pre­vi­ous human or even the pet store or dis­trib­u­tor he came from. Ham­sters are tiny, and robos are feisty. Ham­ster hind parts are about this big: .
You’re told a pet’s sex, assume it’s cor­rect, and then don’t think about it since it’s gen­er­ally not impor­tant.
So

Meet Lola

Meet Lola. I may rename her, but for now she’s Lola. She’s about a year old. She comes from a very nice home that just had too many ani­mals in it. I saw her on Craigslist and decided that she needed to move to my bed­room.
I’ve really, really wanted a Roborovski dwarf ham­ster (robo, for

My frozen dairy beverage summons all the young men to the yard

AJ sent me this. It makes me smile.

8 bits of AWESOME

Know what this is, kids? That’s right. It’s Super Mario Bros. 3 on my huge TV. Huge, at least, com­pared to the 12″ screen I grew up play­ing Nin­tendo on.
The NES I received for Christ­mas 1990 is still run­ning beautifully.

Strawberry harvest

Today’s side yard straw­berry har­vest. They are deli­cious.
For once, I got there before the squir­rels did. If I knew I’d be here next sum­mer, I would put more plants in, but I’m not sure. I love my lit­tle straw­berry patch and how it’s grown since I moved in.

Adopt a ham

Dream­si­cle says: “Don’t you need a fuzzy friend?”
There are a lot of ham­sters for adop­tion on Craigslist this week for what­ever rea­son. Some are free; some have an adop­tion fee, some come with a cage.
Free Syr­ian ham­ster — needs love and tam­ing.
Baby Syr­ian ham­sters — not born yet, but sure to be utterly adorable.
Syr­ian ham­ster and

Appetizers, Potter’s Tavern, Raymertown, NY

Sweet potato fries and stuffed baked pota­toes. Both were won­der­ful. You know you’re using some fan­tas­tic bacon when I can’t get enough of it–I usu­ally pick bacon out of things or avoid it entirely. This, I might even eat a piece of on its own, and I haven’t eaten bacon by itself in about twenty

English major that I am

Happy Blooms­day, Internet!

First Baptist Church sign, At the Warehouse, Albany

I like At the Ware­house, but none of the old things lying around ever strike my fancy.