Weekly Randomness for Friday, May 13, 2016

Best way to approach a Friday the 13th

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Min svävare är full med ål ** (and IKEA is coming!!)
• Sadness
• Only Congress gets to decide their own raises... 

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• A city growing up
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• Brunch and a classic movie at Avalon Theater
• Season opener for the Elkhorn Flea!!!
• Mulch. More mulch. Finishing up planting containers. And mulch. 

** For the Monty Python fans

Bad start to this Friday the 13th for HandyMan.... 

Whole batch of lemon curd-filled lemon cupcakes with lemon-mascarpone icing rendered inedible by pavement and bad luck.... sigh..... 

Weekly Randomness for Friday, December 12, 2014

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Just because it isn't new, I don't think this means we should all start smoking again...
• Try to find a better illustration of income inequality.
• Cheese should be its own food group. Well, actually, in Wisconsin, it is. 

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• If only I didn't suck at the game... too fun! 
• Plantibody. I just like the way the word sounds. Plantibody. 
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• More decorating. More canning. Yes, it's a different weekend... 
• Maybe.... a movie! Suggestions?
• I've been working on something to share, but it's not quite time. Soon.
• Plantibody

Magnet Monday: Scotland

Cheesy Refrigerator Magnet for Monday, September 15, 2014
"Scotland", Wild Scottish Thistle, circa 2010

On September 18 of this year (in a mere three days), the Scots will be voting on the question: "should Scotland be an independent country?" Independence, whether from your parents or your sovereign, is never quite what you imagine. For better or for worse. In the light of so many regions currently fighting for independence, it would be refreshing to see it happen at the table and not on the battlefield. Everyone, please keep your shoes on. 



Magnet Monday features a selection from our semi-vast and ever growing collection of cheesy refrigerator magnets. Without doubt the perfect souvenir. Only slightly less cheesy than collecting snow globes but maybe a lot easier to smuggle in your bra. If need be. Which I hope it never is. Unless it's really worth it.

Not So Fast (The Daily Bite)

It appears I may have been wrong. News is out today that SoMil has agreed to provide big bucks to improve this site for development for non other than Wal-Mart. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach. This will decimate our neighborhood and kill what's left of our downtown.

I certainly hope SoMil receives enough tax income from this new development to make up for the drop in property taxes that will occur in the surrounding neighborhoods since property values will suffer. It's a TID though: tax incremental district. So if they do, it won't be for awhile.

More Food Irony

Image from the FDA website.

Does anyone else see the irony of the US hosting an informational conference on food safety given our recent track record?

Are eggs on the menu? What about cheese? Sure to find some hydrolyzed vegetable protein stuck somewhere.... and I hope there's no frozen fruit for dessert.

Actually, it's going to be held in Cairo, Egypt. They're probably safe.

Oh, the Irony

Extra Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve by Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Does anyone else find irony in the fact that the cheese judged Best in Show at the recent American Cheese Society competition was made from RAW milk, and yet trying to buy raw milk by my own consumer choice is illegal? I'm dumbfounded by the prohibition on raw milk sales. You would think that allowing the sale is tantamount to forcing raw milk on everyone. It's called consumer choice. I would like to exercise mine; you know, take it out for a walk now and then. To buy some raw milk.

Photo from Wisconsin Cheese Talk, sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

Campaign Follies

Now that the primaries are over, the real races begin. To lighten your mood about the upcoming mud season, here's a video from CNN's Jeanne Moos showing some of the best, weirdest campaign ads out there. So far.