Month: September 2004

  • Who’s the best homebrewer in the house? Snookums is the best homebrewer in the house! He just won three places in the 2004 New South Wales Brewing Championships. His “English Mild” won 2nd place in the “Low Alcohol” category; his “American Pale Ale” tied for first in the “Pale Ale”; and his “Chocolate Cherry Stout”…

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  • Retro coolness.

    Retro coolness.A few weeks ago I ordered a View-Master from Amazon for my little brother Joey’s birthday. I was lamenting to the Snook that nowadays you only seem to be able to buy the “themed” View-Masters, like Winnie-the-Pooh and Finding Nemo, and they only come with a few disks each. (I ended up buying some…

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  • The squeaky blogger gets the grease!Remember the rant I had a few months ago about my frustrations with my local Apple service centre? Well, apparently somebody over there was vanity-googling the other day and turned up my site. As a result, I got an e-mail from the Service Manager apologizing for all the difficulty I…

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  • The home-brewing cat

    Behold the home-brewing cat!

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  • Mmm, deep-fried Oreos…

    Max made deep-fried Oreos! Max made deep-fried Oreos! *drools* Meanwhile, I’m back in ketosis after nearly a year of cheating on the diet. Hopefully I’ll be back down to fighting weight before I have to wedge myself into a bridesmaid’s dress in two months…

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  • Days of our Lives

    Thanks to the TiFaux, I’ve started watching Days of our Lives again on a regular basis. Yesterday I had a marathon session where I caught up with the whole past week. I’m still reeling from the whole “fast forward four years” thing. I don’t buy for one second that Sami would ever get together with…

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  • Twinkie Cake!

    If we were having a wedding cake, this would be it.

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  • Edited

    [Edited to remove our mailing address] This “engagement” is only a week old and I’m already getting annoyed. The link to our address is down. If you want to know it, please mail us. I’ve also deleted the wedding registry. God forbid my motives were questioned or people thought I was being crass.

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  • Mommy Wants a New President

    If I had a kid, I’d totally dress him in one of these T-shirts. Hmm, I wonder if I could work that slogan onto some sort of cat garment…

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  • Arts and Letters is real!

    Arts and Letters is real!I was just snickering along at this article about creampuff college classes and trying to recall if there were any at ND. Nah, even the weird ones I took – like “Ancient Wisdom, Modern Love”; remind me to tell you about that sometime – still had a lot of reading and…

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