Nine Days Since My Last Post

Anything exciting happen?

First Political Post

From time to time, I will stray from the founding principles of C&M to express a political point of view. Here is how I feel about what is going on in Washington DC this week.

Hippie Bins

The new recycling bins are here! Called yesterday and they were at the front step when I got home tonight. I ordered two because I believe that if we all don't recycle, Global Warming will destroy the planet in the next 3 months!

Princess Podkinson

I came across this new article today from News4Jax, The Local Station:

Survey: IPhone Users Obsessed
Phones Used As Watches, Alarm Clocks, Ways To Stay Connected Online
POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010
UPDATED: 10:09 pm EST March 8, 2010

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Katey Weeks, a senior at Stanton High School, admits she can't live without her iPhone. She takes it to school with her every day and goes to bed with it every night.
"I sleep with it next to me," Weeks said.
Weeks apparently isn't alone.
According to a new Stanford University survey, most iPhone users are obsessed with their phones. Users don't just use their phones for calls anymore. They use it as a watch, an alarm clock and a way to stay connected online.
While Weeks admits to taking hers to school, many users take their iPhones to work, too. The iPhone craze has even hit the Channel 4 newsroom, where some admit to being obsessed.
"I'm probably on it every 10 minutes Facebooking, texting," one Channel 4 employee said.
"I call my iPhone Princess Podkinson," another employee said.
Emmeline Hayes, an addiction specialist for Riverpoint Behavioral Health, said the addiction is the same as being addicted to computers or video games.
"They have a very positive response in the brain," Hayes said. "It becomes a pattern or a coping skill."
Most users would argue an iPhone addiction isn't unhealthy. Of those surveyed, 70 percent said it keeps them more organized and more productive.

I don't know about you, but I know a lot of iPhone users who are just a little too friendly with their iPhone. If you have an iPhone and have a nickname for it C&M would like to know.

Does Anyone...

Know who this is?

BS Quote of the Day

"Andy, I am just gonna keep my hand of cards close to my chest and see how it plays out."

I love this quote of bullsh%t and wish I had the talent to come up with stuff like this on the fly and execute it so smoothly as it was delivered to me.

iPhone Balls

"Hey Honey, come here."

"OK."

"I need you to turn the page on the recipe."

"Where is it?"

"It is on the phone. I need you to take your finger and scroll down."

"What?"

"The phone, scroll the page down. I need to see what I need to do next."

"OK."

Recipes written down on paper don't exist anymore.

Cookbooks apparently aren't commonplace either.

Now, you just take your iPhone, go to Paula Dean's website, click a few links and you get a recipe. Didn't know that, but now I do. Pretty simple actually.

So what did we prepare? Sausage balls for the annual company breakfast tomorrow morning. Take a sausage roll, bag of cheese, couple cups of Bisquick and some salt/pepper. Knead. Knead some more. And Knead a lot more. Bake and you have iPhone Sausage Balls.

*For the record I ate 4 of them and credited 3 points to my Weight Watchers.

Still Haven't Found Him

Still haven't found him yet, but he must be making some money on the web! Thinking about a John Galt Ink Pen, Dogtag or Hoodie? Here is your link to it all.

http://www.johngaltgifts.com/

First Review

This blogging stuff gets away from you after a few days. If you don't keep up with it daily, you don't realize the 3 or 4 people who regualarly read this blog and want content daily. Actually demand content! I apologize to all my dedicated readers for letting a few updates slip, but will get back to the core of C&M. No I am not going to blog about PSU Football (yet), the Ebay room (yet), or more chores for Travis. I am going to write about Cole Slaw. A week ago to the day, I came home from work and my wonderful wife had a great surprise for me for dinner. Not only did she prepare a great Chicken/Mushroom dish as the entree, but much to my surprise, she had cole slaw as a side dish. Now when I first saw this, I just wanted to dig in and eat it, but had to wait for dinner. Now this wasn't any of grocery store slaw, but homemade cole slaw, put together via a bag of shredded cabbage and T. Marzetti Lite Slaw Dressing. It looked delicous, fresh, crisp, moist. If I owned a restaurant, I would put this cole slaw in a display. It was worthy of not being eaten, but being Display Cole Slaw. I was excited for dinner to start so I could dig in! So after we sat down and took my first bite, I realized this wasn't great cole slaw. In fact, it wasn't that good. It was poor. It just didn't taste very well. Now this didn't stop me from eating it all, but let's just say we won't be eating this recipe again anytime soon. It was dry and not moist. Lacked any flavor or spice. Bland in taste. The cabbage overpowered the dressing, and the texture was like eating straw. In fact it had an "earthy" taste to it. I thought I was eating something organic. Rehashing how this was made, many mistakes were made, but don't worry, we will learn from this as we move forward. First, we used Lite Slaw Dressing. Less calories=less fat=less taste. Second, amount of dressing. This bottle of Slaw dressing had about 1/5 left in the bottle for a full bag of cabbage. No way that was enough to make the Slaw moist, as well as when using Lite Slaw Dressing, you should use the whole bottle. Third, there wasn't enought time to marinade. Besides lack of dressing, there wasn't enough time for what dressing there was to mix with the cabbage. Use these few tips next time when mixing your own homemade slaw for an improved result. Overall, I rate this Cole Slaw at a C-.