Born 12/28/06 7.21pm 9lb 5oz 21" long (head was 15" around). He's darn cute.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Happy Timm
Granite took control over all the xmas toys. After a day of her desctuction Timm finally got to enjoy one squeaky toy for a few minutes.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
For the record - I STILL BELIEVE!
This is a true story copied from the blog of my friend Chicken & Waffles (click on the link for the full story)
I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12 years old. It seems incredible now, but yes, I admit it. My parents were so accomplished in perpetuating a myth in such elaborate fashion that my brother and I were outright believers, even when we were on the threshold of adolescence."
Friday, December 15, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
IN-N-OUT Burger
In addition to the
Not So Secret Menu Items for IN-N-OUT Burger if you ask the counter employee for a map you'll get a wallet sized fol-up of all the In-N-Outs so you'll never be lost again!
Next time you're at In-N-Out (i.e. tomorrow . . . or maybe tonight), order a bag of these off-the-menu specials - they will appear on the receipt by name too!:
"3-by-3" = three meat patties and three slices of cheese.
"4-by-4" = four meat patties and four slices of cheese.
"2-by-4" = two meat patties and four slices of cheese.
*Note: You can get a burger with as many meat patties or cheese slices as you want. Just tell the In-N-Out Burger cashier how many meat patties and how much cheese you want and that is what you'll get! For instance, if you want 6 pieces of meat and 10 pieces of cheese tell them you want a "6-by-10."
"Double Meat" = like a Double Double without cheese.
"3 by Meat" = three meat patties and no cheese.
"Animal Style" = the meat is cooked and fried with mustard and then pickles are added, extra spread and grilled onions are added.
"Animal Style Fries" = fries with cheese, spread, grilled onions and pickles (if you ask for them).
"Protein Style" = for all you low-carbohydrate dieters, this is a burger with no bun (wrapped in lettuce).
"Flying Dutchman" = two meat patties, two slices of melted cheese and nothing else - not even a bun!
Fries "Well-Done" = extra crispy fries . . . even better than the regular!
Fries "Light" = opposite of fries well-done, more raw than most people like 'em
"Grilled Cheese" = no meat, just melted cheese, tomato, lettuce and spread on a bun.
"Veggie Burger" = burger without the patty or cheese. Sometimes we call this the "Wish Burger."
"Neapolitan" Shake = strawberry, vanilla and chocolate blended together.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Christmas Ideas
Welcome to the Oakland Zoo
What a great idea for giving the gift to that someone who has everything - support your local zoo!
Give the gift for ANIMAL ENRICHMENT
WHAT IS ENRICHMENT?
Enrichment is a term that describes a vast array of activities provided for captive wildlife. These activities can stimulate natural behaviors, such as scent marking, aggressive posturing, vocalizations or play behavior. Enrichment activities increase natural behavior and improve quality of life.
Enrichment activities can be a number of things. From spraying perfume on logs to get lions to scratch, rub or scent mark, to highly complex, computer run, random, mechanical food dispensers that simulate hunting. Some animals are offered live fish to catch in pools, others receive “puzzle feeders” to lengthen the time they spend feeding. Many activities are put on a schedule, and rotated to retain their novelty. This keeps the game fun. Other activities just need to be time consuming, and give the animal work or purpose.
Variety is the key to providing satisfying activities. Introducing new scents, objects, sounds and tastes keep the animals stimulated, and interested in their environment. This not only creates a healthier animal, but provides our zoo guests with a more educational experience. Enrichment can provide the opportunity to watch giraffe use it’s 18-inch, prehensile( grabbing) tongue to obtain food from a puzzle feeder, and you will have observed how a giraffe browses in Africa!
How do we come up with activity ideas? This is where knowing the animals is important. The keepers are often the ones to create new plans, based on both the natural history of the species, and
knowing the individual animals themselves. You would not want to offer branches on ropes if an antelope will eat the rope- this could make them sick. Or, chimpanzees may like popsicles made with fruit and juice, but for a lion, you better make a BLOOD-sicle! Creativity and animal experience are a necessary combination for generating new enrichment activities.
ENRICHMENT WISH LIST
Things you may already have around the house:
Perfumes
Spices
Towels
Tennis balls
Raffia
Cornstalks
Large nuts in the shell
Cardboard baby books
Plastic garden toys (flamingoes)
Telephone books
Blankets
Things that can be purchased at most pet stores:
Kongs
Manufactured parrot toys
Jolly balls
Large catnip cat toys
Any horse toy
For more information contact Margaret Rousser at Margaret@oaklandzoo.org
What a great idea for giving the gift to that someone who has everything - support your local zoo!
Give the gift for ANIMAL ENRICHMENT
WHAT IS ENRICHMENT?
Enrichment is a term that describes a vast array of activities provided for captive wildlife. These activities can stimulate natural behaviors, such as scent marking, aggressive posturing, vocalizations or play behavior. Enrichment activities increase natural behavior and improve quality of life.
Enrichment activities can be a number of things. From spraying perfume on logs to get lions to scratch, rub or scent mark, to highly complex, computer run, random, mechanical food dispensers that simulate hunting. Some animals are offered live fish to catch in pools, others receive “puzzle feeders” to lengthen the time they spend feeding. Many activities are put on a schedule, and rotated to retain their novelty. This keeps the game fun. Other activities just need to be time consuming, and give the animal work or purpose.
Variety is the key to providing satisfying activities. Introducing new scents, objects, sounds and tastes keep the animals stimulated, and interested in their environment. This not only creates a healthier animal, but provides our zoo guests with a more educational experience. Enrichment can provide the opportunity to watch giraffe use it’s 18-inch, prehensile( grabbing) tongue to obtain food from a puzzle feeder, and you will have observed how a giraffe browses in Africa!
How do we come up with activity ideas? This is where knowing the animals is important. The keepers are often the ones to create new plans, based on both the natural history of the species, and
knowing the individual animals themselves. You would not want to offer branches on ropes if an antelope will eat the rope- this could make them sick. Or, chimpanzees may like popsicles made with fruit and juice, but for a lion, you better make a BLOOD-sicle! Creativity and animal experience are a necessary combination for generating new enrichment activities.
ENRICHMENT WISH LIST
Things you may already have around the house:
Perfumes
Spices
Towels
Tennis balls
Raffia
Cornstalks
Large nuts in the shell
Cardboard baby books
Plastic garden toys (flamingoes)
Telephone books
Blankets
Things that can be purchased at most pet stores:
Kongs
Manufactured parrot toys
Jolly balls
Large catnip cat toys
Any horse toy
For more information contact Margaret Rousser at Margaret@oaklandzoo.org
Monday, December 04, 2006
Roman Catholic Priest Calendar 2007
Click here to order your Calendario Romano 2007 - Roman Priest Calendar 2007
Talk about a nice icon! Is this the Catholic church's new evangelism tool?
Here's a sample:
Talk about a nice icon! Is this the Catholic church's new evangelism tool?
Here's a sample:
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Diversion Magazine - For Physicians at Leisure
Since JL works in magazine publishing I know there is something for everyone. So why was I "shocked" to find thisDiversion Magazine - For Physicians at Leisure while waiting for my doctor yesterday? Wow!
An entire subscription magazine that "features information on travel and other lifestyle subjects, medical meetings, and physician volunteer opportunities. For additional stories on these topics as well as on food, cars, sports, the arts and more, see Diversion magazine, the number one guide to the good life for physicians."
Can't they just read Travel or Sunset or watch Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. Do they really need their own magazine?
An entire subscription magazine that "features information on travel and other lifestyle subjects, medical meetings, and physician volunteer opportunities. For additional stories on these topics as well as on food, cars, sports, the arts and more, see Diversion magazine, the number one guide to the good life for physicians."
Can't they just read Travel or Sunset or watch Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. Do they really need their own magazine?
Anchor Steam - Anchor Christmas Ale
Anchor Steam - Anchor Christmas Ale
Run, don't walk, to your local beer seller and buy a few. This is the best recipe they've crafted in years.
I think I need to organize my annual pilgrimage to the brewery.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Holiday Fruit Cake Recipe
Drunk Fruit Cake Recipe
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour, sifted
1/2 t. salt
1 cup bourbon
1 pound pecans, chopped
3 cups white raisins (or use candied fruit)
1 t. nutmeg
1 large bottle of bourbon whiskey ~
First, sample the whiskey to check for quality.
Assemble all of the ingredients. Check the whiskey again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat this step.
Turn on the electric mixer and beat one cup of butter in a large
fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and cream until beat.
Make sure the whiskey is still okay... try another cup.
Turn off the mixer. Beat six leggs and add to the bowl,
then chunk in the cup of dried flut. Mix on the tuner.
Throw in two quarts of flour. Gradually pour in the cow.
Add 2 dried anything.
If the fried druit gets struck in the beaters, pry it loose with
a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey and check it again for tonsistency.
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares???
Check the whiskey again.
Now sift the nutmeg and strain your nuts. Add one table.
And the spoon. Of whiskee. Or something. Whatever you find left.
Grease the oven.
Turn the crake pan to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Pour the oven into the batter. Throw the bowl out the window.
Lick the batter off the floor.
Bake 300 minutes at 50 degrees.
Finish the blobble of whishy and flow to bed.
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour, sifted
1/2 t. salt
1 cup bourbon
1 pound pecans, chopped
3 cups white raisins (or use candied fruit)
1 t. nutmeg
1 large bottle of bourbon whiskey ~
First, sample the whiskey to check for quality.
Assemble all of the ingredients. Check the whiskey again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat this step.
Turn on the electric mixer and beat one cup of butter in a large
fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and cream until beat.
Make sure the whiskey is still okay... try another cup.
Turn off the mixer. Beat six leggs and add to the bowl,
then chunk in the cup of dried flut. Mix on the tuner.
Throw in two quarts of flour. Gradually pour in the cow.
Add 2 dried anything.
If the fried druit gets struck in the beaters, pry it loose with
a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey and check it again for tonsistency.
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares???
Check the whiskey again.
Now sift the nutmeg and strain your nuts. Add one table.
And the spoon. Of whiskee. Or something. Whatever you find left.
Grease the oven.
Turn the crake pan to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Pour the oven into the batter. Throw the bowl out the window.
Lick the batter off the floor.
Bake 300 minutes at 50 degrees.
Finish the blobble of whishy and flow to bed.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Getting In The Mood
Aside from the usual CBS showing of the claymation christmas classics the following movies must be viewed to get myself into the spirit of the season.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Elf
Love Actually
Home For The Holidays
A Christmas Story
Little Woman (1994)
I hate to say it but the Jimmy Stewart classic: It's A Wonderful Life doesn't do a damn thing for me. I finally saw the show from start to finish within the last 7 years and fell asleep. The only redeeming aspect of the movie was the SNL skit about "lost footage" of the real ending where the towns folk stormed in and killed Mr. Potter.
What movie(s) set your holiday mood?
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Elf
Love Actually
Home For The Holidays
A Christmas Story
Little Woman (1994)
I hate to say it but the Jimmy Stewart classic: It's A Wonderful Life doesn't do a damn thing for me. I finally saw the show from start to finish within the last 7 years and fell asleep. The only redeeming aspect of the movie was the SNL skit about "lost footage" of the real ending where the towns folk stormed in and killed Mr. Potter.
What movie(s) set your holiday mood?
Internet Legend Flashback
Amazon.com: Profile For Henry Raddick: Reviews
I first learned of Henry Raddick a few years ago. Is he real or an urban legend? Will we ever know the truth? Anywhoo - it's a few hours of entertainment. He writes wonderful reviews on Amazon.com products such as:
George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney
You Can Teach Your Dog to Eliminate on Command by M. L. Smith
The art of sexual lovemaking, a guide to a happier sex-love life for married couples by Frank Samuel Caprio
Understanding Today's Youth Culture: Discussion Guide by Walt Mueller
Astrological Counselling: A Basic Guide to Astrological Themes in Person to Person Understanding by Christina Rose
I first learned of Henry Raddick a few years ago. Is he real or an urban legend? Will we ever know the truth? Anywhoo - it's a few hours of entertainment. He writes wonderful reviews on Amazon.com products such as:
George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney
You Can Teach Your Dog to Eliminate on Command by M. L. Smith
The art of sexual lovemaking, a guide to a happier sex-love life for married couples by Frank Samuel Caprio
Understanding Today's Youth Culture: Discussion Guide by Walt Mueller
Astrological Counselling: A Basic Guide to Astrological Themes in Person to Person Understanding by Christina Rose
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Ladybugs
Our neighbors have a small infestation of ladybugs in their yard. On a one-on-one basis they are a cute little insect. In the thousands they are kind of creepy!
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