2002-05-22 11:30 p.m.
What's Shiny Today
- You've got to love a recipe that describes the results as "Makes 4 cups spread and 18 penguins."
- I'm hoping to buy a house sometime in the foreseeable future. I'm hoping
not to end up with a neighbor like this guy. (Though when I become house-poor, having stories
like this to dine out on could really come in handy.)
- A squirrel knocked out power to over 27,000 PG&E customers today. A PG&E spokesman informed the press that "the squirrel is no more, but
his legacy lives on." Nice to see evidence that someone at PG&E has a sense of humor, though if you were one of their spokespeople I'd suppose you'd have to
just so you could live with being the public face of Satan.
- In baseball news, the A's traded Jeremy Giambi to the Phillies. (They also busted 3 players down to the minors, put Velarde in as a utility guy and have Saturday's pitching slot "undecided." This is all either really good or really bad.) Billy Beane claims it's because Mini G is a "one-dimensional player." Er, so is his brother, but really really good at that one dimension...
Also, Mike Piazza is still not gay. - Some friends and I had this for dinner last night. We were a little iffy on the walnuts so
went with pine nuts instead; either way, the nuts taste better toasted in a pan
first. Stirring risotto can be a pain but is made much less tedious when four
of you are sharing the cooking and your significant other can be "persuaded"
(ordered) to fetch you drinks.
Speaking of significant others: TheBoy has registered his objections to this whole enterprise, including his "cutesy pseudonym" (he has yet to volunteer a better one) and the fact that I didn't announce to him when I actually had started this, only when I was thinking about it. (Hmm, wonder why?)
"It's like finding out that your significant other has a secret life as a stripper or something," he griped. This from a guy who watches the Christian World News for kicks?