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No power

Posted on January 15, 2007 by The Jody

My little portion of Leominster is without power…it's been out for
about half an hour or so. Glad we didn't start a load of laundry. Of
course, because our power lines are underground, Junior hasn't
experienced too many power outages in his lifetime, so he's still busy
discovering all the things that don't work right now.

My laptop has power but no internet connection. We may have enough power
charged in the portable DVD player to watch a movie later…I'll save
that for later.

From our house we can see lights in a different neighborhood, which is
annoying. I'd drive over to my mom's but the temperature is dropping and
I don't want to be out if the roads freeze up.

Mr. Dump is off getting a pizza because we realized we don't really have
anything we can cook over the fire. That may not stop me from trying,
though.

I'm off to see what I can use to heat water in the fireplace so I can
have some tea…

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Phantom’s Phormal Photo

Posted on January 12, 2007 by The Jody

phantomjan07, originally uploaded by Big DumpTruck.

The other day I was playing with the new camera, trying out some of the settings. This was actually not taken in B&W originally, I did it in Paint Shop Pro just to see what it would look like. I kind of like it. No retouching but I wish I’d moved the chair from the background.

On the other hand, anyone who has had to photograph a small kid or an animal knows you don’t stop to fix the background.

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Food Review: Blazin’ Buffalo & Ranch Doritos

Posted on January 10, 2007 by The Jody

If “burning” was a flavor instead of a feeling, that would cover these.

Every time I try to figure out what the flavor is (I think closer to Cool Ranch except, of course, for the Cool part) the Blazin’ Buffalo kicks in. This isn’t really a flavor, though, is it?

I’ll say that if you like spicy, you’ll probably like these okay. Me, I prefer my Ranch cool and my buffalo heat with blue cheese. (What kind of neanderthal restaurant chefs decided to pair buffalo sauced products with ranch? HEATHANS! I shall not darken your doorstep again!)

So I give these a 5 out of 10, but only because I don’t like mouth blisters.

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Food Review: Blazin’ Buffalo & Ranch Doritos

Posted on January 10, 2007 by The Jody

If “burning” was a flavor instead of a feeling, that would cover these.

Every time I try to figure out what the flavor is (I think closer to Cool Ranch except, of course, for the Cool part) the Blazin’ Buffalo kicks in. This isn’t really a flavor, though, is it?

So I give these a 5 out of 10, but only because I don’t like mouth blisters.

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I Vote We Keep Winter Like This

Posted on January 9, 2007February 24, 2010 by The Jody

It was chilly this morning. What nerve, the January weather has, to be cold. Now Saturday’s weather, that was a perfect January day, don’t you think? I am going to stick my neck out and suggest that we keep all of our winter weather in the fifty to seventy degree range from this point forward. I think that it will help with our home heating bills, and it will help with our not wanting to scrape ice of the windshield, or drive in the snow. I’m not going to lie to you, this is the best January ever. And each day that there is no snow and ice I know I am that much closer to spring, and that brings me great joy.

I, of course, will take credit (or the blame, if you insist on harshing my mellow) for the lack of snow on the ground, because for Christmas we bought my step-son a full snowboard package (kit? setup?) of the board, the bindings and the boots. Not cheap to do that, so OF COURSE he hasn’t been able to use them at all this year. Not once. This makes him sad, so I try not to do a happy dance of joy about 70 degree days when he’s around.

What was also nice about Saturday is that is was Junior’s actual birthday, and he picked out the bike he wanted that was his Christmas/birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa…and he actually got to go outside and enjoy it. I too, am a January baby (gift list is over on the right – I included all the expensive stuff because I knew you would want me to) and I remember the year I got a bike for my birthday – it was purple and it had a banana seat with flowers on it and streamers hanging from the handlebars…and I couldn’t do a thing with it until after the spring thaw. That was just torture! So I’m glad he got to ride it this weekend. I’m sure my parents feel that it makes it worth spending the money, actually.