To be honest, I’m tired and a little depressed.

I don’t think any of it has to do with sugar or anything related to it… unless we count the effect of my research yesterday. I know… we’re all just here for no good reason or at God’s pleasure or whatever you choose to believe and eventually [...]

Firstly, I know my sister-in-law hates me because she made this yesterday:

Apple Cake of Hate

That moist, apparently delicious by all reports, little finger in my eye is fresh apple cake.  Our local nursery is having their Apple Festival this weekend, and I thought I’d just cruise through eating a bunch of apples and calling [...]

Beautiful day here yesterday.  So nice, in fact, that we all went down to the local elementary school just to putz around on the playground for a while.  As is her style, wifey brought snacks.  When I showed up a few minutes after everyone else, they were all munching down shrimp crackers… my son brought [...]

You know that feeling you get when the Internet breaks?

“Ah, DSL is down… can’t check my mail… guess I’ll go read Google News… or… no… wait… I’ll, uh… see what’s going on on Facebook… no… ok, there must be something… I know, I’ll *talk* to someone! Wonder who’s on Skype… dammit… maybe I should just [...]

There are two things that I can’t quite decide about: fruit and honey.  Do they really count as sweeteners?  I mean, I can walk out in my yard, right now, and pick a handful of grapes.  On the way back to the house, I can stop off at one of the bee hives and tear [...]