Yay for pots!

    Friday, May 9, 2008, 07:24 PM CST [General Life Stuff]

    ... as in cooking implements, not weed.

    Made a really nice garage sale score today - the full set of the stainless steel pots you get with a Cooking Club of America Lifetime Membership.

    If you ever think of joining - don't. Their book club offers exactly two good books (the intro to the basics book and the one on pasta), and overall they just try to rip you off.

    However, their pots kick ass. They claim the set is worth $230 (looking at similar stuff online, fairly accurate), and I certainly wouldn't pay the $330 lifetime membership fee (even in twelve convenient installments).... but for $50, when they don't even look used?

    Hell yeah!

    And now we can happily ditch the old ones with the non-stick coating rubbing off... I was beginning to worry that I'd grow an extra toe or something.

    (This still doesn't beat my earlier score of a 1978 MN RenFest commemorative pottery mug for $2... but I think there's very little that would. *grin*)

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    Lost & Found

    Thursday, May 8, 2008, 10:57 PM CST [General Life Stuff]

    Long and long ago, I was gifted a set of mixed tapes of Festival music. There were around a dozen of them, and they remain one of the neatest gifts I've received. Unfortunately, several years later the person who made them asked to borrow them back as she'd lost a couple of the originals, and upon inquiry a month later when I was missing them terribly, informed me that she'd never intended to return them in the first place.

    That'll teach me.

    A decade and change later, I've finally reassembled most of what was on them... except for a couple tapes and a some nagging songs that NO ONE could identify for me. I googled... oh, how I googled.

    One in particular tended to float the refrain through my head - and today, I finally hit paydirt on it. Some random guy had the lyrics on his blog, and thankfully included credit to the author. Once I had that, the rest was a snap... although I think that with anyone as big as Maura O'Connell apparently is, it really shouldn't have been this hard.

    A performance of "The Scholar" on YouTube

    Finding this makes me incredibly happy. I intend to order everything this woman has to offer. 

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    Happy Cinco de Mayo !!!

    Blackwolf
    May 5, 2008
    06:52 PM CST

    Tis been a while since penning a missive to you, but I shall do so now. Just passing through in hopes all is well in your shire. Happy Pat's Day to you Dear Lady.

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    Lord Sir Clisto of York
    Mar 17, 2008
    10:51 PM CST

    I doth find my witt be most sharp at 5:00 to greet Aurora’s arrival with Arabian brew in hand, m’Lady. The world be silent as in the beginning and the conceits doth flow freely unimpeded giving breath unto creation.

    Howbeit, as Apollo’s chariot fadeth from the sky, I find’th my need for my slumber increaseth most steadily. 'Tis not logic bethink’th me, but that I be a cock in the yard.

    Sir Mikel
    Feb 29, 2008
    10:15 PM CST

    Good eve dear lady, I pray the hallowed nasties have not found their way in to your keep. I wish you a good and fun Hallows Eve in this cool of nights.

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    Lord Sir Clisto of York
    Oct 31, 2007
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