What a lovely, happy dog!

I thought it was common courtesy to eat opposite slices- which always work out to be equal, right?

I don't really have this problem as my eggs usually sit in my fridge for a few weeks. However this is the third mention of it lately (my roommate first, then another blog, now here) so I'd like to suggest something that I've heard:

Pierce your eggs before boiling. A pushpin is good for this. Poke it in the wide end. This lets air in, which makes the cooked egg easier to peel.

I used to work for a catering company and there is a vault in the woman's bathroom at the Turner Hill Mansion in Ipswich MA. Turner Hill is a classic American "ridiculous turn of the century mansion" complete with ghosts (Mr and Mrs Rice, the original owners, both died in the house) and a bowling alley in the basement. The modern bathrooms and commercial kitchens are built into the old servants quarters, and the vault was located between the breakfast room and the butler's room.

There is also some kind of crazy old vault at Maudsley Park in Newburyport MA. It's built into a hill. The house is no longer there, the owners (more rich crazy turn of the century people) donated the land to be used as a park and the house was razed, but the stables and the vault remain.

Cute!

& Skipweasel, I find my kitchen table to be the ideal sewing machine work station, as my very long fancy table in my studio has ofically been taken over by computer peripherals, jars of pens, and cat beds.

pwscott, this is an entirely different kind of gross from Thunderbird and Manischewitz.

Obama was supposed to can DST- probably because he's recently had little kids and can understand how messed up people who live by the sun, not the clock, get by these things! It's a damn shame the tanked economy and foreign relations have gotten in the way of his following through with that initiative!

Rats are great pets, I've known people who had them. However, I would NEVER mess with a feral one that is carrying who knows what diseases.

Ted, yeah, pointless, like all that art, music and video games out there. Horrid, really, that people waste their vaulable time on such petty things rather than trying to solve real issues like World Hunger.

Sounds like someone misses his mommy.

My brother once dressed up as a 'girl' (and it was a weird costume, he wore one of my grandmothers old wigs and an old womans skirt suit) and most of the houses we went to thought he really was a girl and wondered what he was dressed up as- a few asked if he was supposed to be Hillary Clinton. (This was about 93, he was about 10.)

I knew a guy who's mom had dressed him up as Hitler and sent him to school.

I also heard a great story on This American Life about another kid who got dressed up as Hitler at school and how the teachers dealt with it.

Personally, I was always content to be a cat or a witch or a vampire. If it was black and involved makeup, that was enough for me.

Not alcohol, it's Ketamine.

re: earl

Waste not, want not! :)

Also, does everyone realize why Elmer's Glue has a cow for a mascot? Because it used to be made out of boiled hooves. (Nowadays they use chemicals. Which are probably safe.)

So let's say, at a bbq, this will feed 12 people as a side dish. That's still over 500 calories per serving.

Next time I feel like something "sweet, but with a tang" I'll go straight for the Sour Patch Kids, thx. There's less than 200 calories in a bag of 'em, and no fat.

I cried a little. Very sweet.