...and anything on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I use various bitters in all sorts of stuff, including my breakfast granola, fruit salads, soups, almost anything with cheese, and, of course, beer. Alas, the rest of the family isn’t into it (Katie thinks that Classic Angostura tastes like “soap”[?!]), so I have to keep my portions separate.

“Pre-shredded mozzarella lasts forever” in its yellow-green form.

COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) is not Costco.

I moved away from Hawaii partly because of the food (at least, the part that was affordable).

I have great admiration for the people who help save the human race from extinction, even though I’m not one of them.

If there is not a law against articles like this one, there should be.

Whatever you do, just don’t end up looking like (President) Agent Orange.

That one’s easy—I unfollow any tedious friends. That means most of them, alas.

Can I snooze friend suggestions? Like, forever?

I stop using ketchup long before that was a Thing. And I’ve put mustard on fries since I was a kid in the 1950s.

“Using nonstick cooking spray on cookware is a big no-no. Here’s the problem with it — after a while your pan will get a sticky buildup of the spray that doesn’t burn off during cooking. This usually happens around the sides of the pan. Scrubbing this sticky film off takes some serious elbow grease and doesn’t happen…

Plus Pam destroys your cookware.

The good (for some of us, essential) thing about some of these is that you can make them with lactose-free milk which, these days, has become almost affordable if you buy it at, say, WalMart.

When I saw “app” I got all excited, thinking this would be a mobile app (which is when you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 need something like this, for example, when sitting in that hotel room). Alas, desktop only, and who lugs a laptop everywhere these days?

You can use the “Custom Q&A” template to change the default answers to questions. For example, I’ve changed the response to “Alexa, will it rain today?” to “Look out the window. What do you think?” Keeps getting laughs in my family. Just change the wording slightly (e.g., “Alexa, rain today?”) when you want a real…

At 65, I regret a life (mostly) spent chasing a “perfect romance”. Fortunately, for the last 19 years I’ve had one that is quite close enough, but it was a long, very stupid road getting here. My younger self wouldn’t like what I’d say to him if I had the chance, but he’d be far better off for it.

I have one dedicated to holding until the next trash pickup day all of the nuisance squirrels that I find in my yard and attic. For some reason my family objected to my storing those in the main freezer, and my neighbors objected to my storing them in outside trash bin.

“...the Number One Rule of the Outdoors, which is: don’t touch it.”

Virginia?! Damn... Yet another reason to move to Canada.