Yesterday I spent the day at my uncle and aunt’s house for their cook out. As any proper guest would I brought offerings of Carribean Kabobs and Jell-o shots.
I re-met and chatted with “Animal” and his wife, whose name, unfortunately I did not catch. She told me one of her auto parts store stories where she went in to pick up a replacement part for her car and the store refused to sell it to her. They insisted she was being silly and that she should have her husband come in and get the correct part. Now why would she want to do that? He didn’t do the custom job on her ride. She did.
Afterward I chatted with Patrice who has a collection of vintage recipes and someday hopes to compile them into a cookbook that she can share with all of us. This remindined me of a cookbook project I had begun some 20 years ago but had to dump due to expenses. I wanted to collect family recipes, print them out and put them in plastic sleeves, inside notebook binders. The plan was to give one to each family and let them modify their own book as they were passed down. Instead the first recipes were put online in what is now known as “Crunchy Granola’s Kitchen”. I’m pretty sure I”ll never finish my original project, but I’d really like to update the online recipes. So now I’m trying to work out a schedule to completely update my site. 
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After much munching and drinking it started getting dark, so my uncle hooked up his portable DVD player to a projector and we watched National Treasure on the side of their house (did I mention my uncle and half of his buddies are Masons?). It was a pretty good movie. Loved the ending. It’s so something I would do!
The houselights came on around 10:30pm. We gathered our things and said our goodbyes. I have two recipes I have to pass along to my other aunt in Maine, two bottles of wine for our cook out in two weeks, and made a promise to dig through my bread machine book for recipes that can be used in a Hitatchi.
I finally ordered a DVD burner from Amazon (the cheapest place I trust), only to have second thoughts. I bought a Plextor, because it was a recommended brand when I bought my CD burner 3 years ago. Now I’m reading mixed reviews about this particular DVD burner, some which mention the drive dying within a month of heavy use (and their replacements doing the same). It just so happened how they died, is the same way CD burner died: unable to write to, or read from, a disk. I could still cancel the order but I fucking need this drive and I have no idea what other brand to consider. Consumer Reports just doesn’t do write ups on this sort of thing. *sigh*
Oh, and the tentacles now have beasties to keep them company.
