You laugh, but I guarantee he’s going to say something like, “We’ve never been that close. Y’know, it’s too bad, he and I could have been so close. So close.  But now, I guess he doesn’t love his father, huh?  Family is important to me. Family. Family...! Family.”

Schlieffen Plan says what?

Casey’s General Store, a convenience store chain in the midwest, has long had breakfast pizza. It’s my ideal gas station breakfast, and one of the many little things I miss about living back home.

I have been 6'2" for several decades, and at times I have been 250 lbs. or probably more.  I have not ever looked as pudgy as that guy.

What was it about the early-mid 90's? I was spending all my after-school job money on Magic cards (collectible!) and comics (foil covers!) during that time period. One flooded basement while I was at college ruined all that.

My dad’s “Mom isn’t cooking dinner tonight” recipe go-to was ‘goulash’. The recipe is one onion, lightly cooked, ground beef, one can stewed tomatoes, one bag of elbow macaroni. I was so confused as an adult when I went to a Hungarian restaurant, but also much happier.

Great news, she’s British!

I with they’d made the list based on breweries and not individual beers.  I had to laugh when I saw all the Bud varieties spelled out in a row.

I haven’t gotten my Dorf on for like a decade, and haven’t played Sims since the first one, but whoah if true.  

You can ski the downhill course from the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. It’s a blue, and at a leisurely pace it’s not hard at all; if it were divided into shorter parts it’d easily be two or three green runs. But then you imagine tucking and going all-out fast and it’s a hell of a slope. I can only imagine…

My brother is a holdover, with a case of silver bullets in his fridge 365 days a year. He makes fun of me for always drinking “something that no one has heard of, and that only you like.” Which is fair, I suppose.

I suppose I have zero backup if I were to say that they’re just the best. Conventional wisdom is all I have, since I’ve used two stand mixer brands in my entire life. In college I even used one to mix small batches of concrete in a laboratory, so I know they’re tough! The mixers I see on youtube and that one season of…

Also don’t forget that Joni Ernst had nothing but praise for Steve King until this week.  

The worst/best part is that the part of the state that Trump is screwing the hardest are the parts of the state where he’s most popular. I haven’t had the chance to ask a State of Jefferson supporter about their thoughts on fire prevention without the help of CalFire.

What your comment made me think of is that back in 2007 I heard that Obama had only paid off his school loans after writing a best-selling book. On top of all the other reasons I liked him, he had paid a school loan payment in the 21st Century.

I’ll pass along the kudos. We’re lucky to have both absorbed Alton Brown’s “no single-tasker” rule (avocado slicer as an exception) so it’s not too bad in there, just the usual working of entropy and accumulation. I do enjoy having everything in its right place.

My wife arranged the secondary utensil drawer in the kitchen - you know, the one with the soup ladle, the avocado slicer, the melon baller; not the one with the spoons and spatulas.  Twice this weekend when I emptied the dishwasher I was nervous to put anything in there!  Also, I’m told she refolded her underwear. …

I think making a pun out of pho is a God-Given American Melting Pot Right.  That’s the sort of thing that USA has done well for centuries and we shouldn’t stop now.

The other day I realized we’re just over 12 months away from the madness starting all over again in the Iowa Caucus. I also realized that my house is closer to a marijuana store than a bar. I think I’m going to start a new habit in the new year.

I always assume when someone says “More than X,” where X is some number that one could easily count to, that they really mean “X+1,” no more, no less. In this case though, it’s a bad lie! I just can’t believe how bad of a liar this fool is.