Over the weekend Wanda baked cookies and a delicious salted caramel iced banana bread. Most of the cookies went to Big O Tires for our grandson and the cookie monster guys. We had the bread and a few cookies here. Thirty five minutes, I should have done an hour.
The other day I told Wanda we should go on our annual Easter trip to the Taste of Denmark bakery in Oakland. This was a tradition started by my bad spouse's father over thirty years ago. He claimed he was born in Denmark but I think the bakery was as close as he ever got to the old country. Look at the beautiful pastry. My heritage is Russian, we have beet borscht and dirt.
Last year we ordered separately and like "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" each man was responsible for his own goods. Wanda is more logical than I am. She knows eating $30 of baked goods over a week end is not a good idea. When we got home she put most of hers in the freezer. I didn't think she would notice if I took two or three at a time, she did. I blamed it on the cat.
"I didn't do it," says the senator from New Jersey. On Jan. 31st I wrote about a sex scandal involving the senator and a Dominican prostitute. I have new information from last night.
The 23-year-old woman who said in a video that she had sex with a New Jersey senator for money is now acknowledging that the allegation was false. According to a sworn statement released by a lawyer enmeshed (isn't this a great word, enmeshed) in the accusations.
The attorney, Vinicio Castillo Seman (no really, it's seman with the a) told reporters that the woman now claims that she not only "never went to bed with" U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez but she never actually met him. Seman has been accused of hosting outings on his yacht in which the the senator used the services of prostitutes. He has strongly denied the allegations and said he would seek a criminal investigation into the source of the reports.
This gets a little muddled but it seems the woman and a friend were approached by another lawyer who asked them to repeat the manufactured accusations and they were recorded on video without their knowledge.
In Washington, Menendez told reporters that the accusations against him were "smears."
"I've always said that these are all false, they're smears, and so I look forward to seeing whatever the Dominican courts have that prove what I've said all along," Menendez said Monday.
Just before Menendez's successful re-election last November, The Daily Caller, a conservative web site, published a story that included a video interview with two women who claimed to be prostitutes. The women said Menendez paid them $100 for sex after agreeing to a fee of $500....Is this the heart of the matter? Stiff (no pun intended) a hooker and you're asking for trouble.
Blog fodder is silly, odd, or just pain stupid information I write about. Last night while flipping through the television offerings I stopped on "The Odd Couple." I missed the first ten minutes so my narrative may be slightly sketchy. Apparently Felix invited Oscar and Oscar's ex-wife Blanch to meet him for dinner. Neither knew the other was coming and when they arrived Felix wished them both a "Happy Divorce Anniversary" and left them alone. Then I saw the flashback to the evening they called it quits. About now I bet you're wondering why the Hell I'm writing about this, OK.....I'll fess up.
I don't watch commercial television. Now I can't say never, because I did last night and I am more than a little concerned. Based on the commercials I saw, who is the target audience? Do people actually buy this junk?
Get Free TV...Buy Clear TV and Forget The Cost of Cable and Satellite Reception. Why Pay For TV When You Can Get It Free? For two or three minutes I sat in disbelief watching this commercial. The product was nothing more than a fancy antenna, remember rabbit ears? The product wouldn't provide anything more than local over the air signals. But, the wording and the pictures implied much more. In a sample video the Golf Channel logo was clearly visible. But wait, there's more. Buy one and get another absolutely free, just pay processing and handling. Call right now, operators are standing by.
I'll wager these operators are not really standing by. They're probably sitting or even sleeping by. I went to the website for this wonder product. We just got our cable bill and I'd love to save a few bucks, you know I'm kidding, right? The Clear TV Antenna is $19.95 and the processing and handling charge to my zip code is $31.96. Yours may be less but probably not.
I have been watching an HBO series called "Girls." It's about a group of twenty something people living and loving in New York. I think it's this generations "Sex in the City." I like it but I watched two episodes yesterday and realized I'm too old for it. The dialogue is snappy, witty, and a little fast for my ears. The sex is snappy, witty, and a little too much for my eyes. And if that's not enough, I often don't know what the Hell they're doing or saying. It's not because I'm missing anything, I just don't KNOW what it means.
It's not only television and movies. While looking for fodder this morning I came upon an article about drugstore shopping. "The average drugstore charged 50 percent more for a sampling of 25 common grocery items than the least expensive supermarket. But as with many things in life, there are hacks that level the playing field."
Hacks? hacks? There are hacks that level the playing field? I thought a hack was someone not good at something, as in, "He is a hack writer." I thought hack was something you do when you have a chest cold. Hack is when your e-mail is compromised and all your Facebook friends get nasty notes. I suppose I should determine its meaning? But since I now spend more time in the stands, it's not my playing field that needs a level....oh sorry, a hack.
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