Some days he's so cute

So yesterday, I took him to school. I kissed him goodbye and then he caught sight of his teacher and ran over to her. I started to walk off. I hear "Miss Sue. Look!" I turn and see him grab the edges of his shorts and drops trou, he stands up quickly and continues "New Underwear!" in a very proud voice.

All we could do is burst out laughing.

I love his teacher, her response through the laughter "Those are cool underpants Ike, better keep 'em clean. Now pull up your shorts and we'll go inside"

He is such a character.

How about a BBQ?

We'd thought it would be nice (since I have a saturday off for once) to throw a casual Party at our house. No rhyme nor reason, but because we can.

We are going to make this one a Potluck. We'll provide a bunch of chicken and hot dogs for food and all the root beer you can drink (although we do also have an interesting supply of alcoholic libation). Everyone else is encouraged to bring something along that will round out the menu.

When This saturday the 22nd,
Time Lets say 3

If you need info to figure out how to my house email me.

Note to self

Candies with the same name but are made in 2 different countries, by the same company, may taste completely different.

Let me sum up. I went to the British Food store to kill time and picked up a piece of candy by Cadbury called Turkish Delight. allanh introduced me to this wonderful Canadian candy bar which is this lovely, gooey yet chewy, bright red, intensely raspberry flavored gel covered in milk chocolate. What I picked up from the BFS was a small square bar with a lovely, gooey yet chewy, bright red gel, that is flavored with (I think) rose water, covered in milk chocolate.

That was not what I was expecting. Its good, but different.

And upon reflection. The rose water flavoring is probably more true to being "Turkish" than raspberry would be.

Now I have this huge 250g bar of it to share with everyone on saturday.

The treacle toffee is interesting too.

As a side note, considering how violently allergic I am to roses, I am surprised that my allergies were not triggered by eating this candy.

Looking around I found this blog entry on this candy bar with a very nice picture.

EDIT

Upon searching a bit more I found that the candy allanh gave me is actually called Big Turk and is made by Nestle. My bad. But its still called a Turkish Delight on the wrapper. 

Meme!

Ganked from davidlevine

what is your earliest USENET post on Google Groups?

Okay, here's the link to mine
 
The earliest date it comes up with is April 28 1994
Which is about 6 months after finding out about the usenet.

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=ez030275%40ucdavis.edu&qt_s=Search