Archive - 2006

Ya' know, Chee-toes are all very well, but for serious snacking you just can't beat a big ol' bag of salt-n-vinegar potato chips, especially when they're extra salty n' vinegary and your lips wind up all scaly and discolored.

No, I'm not back. I'm simply here to make a point so I can get on with the Christmas baking, unencumbered by a nagging twitch at the back of my brain. Twitches of this sort I've noticed, my neglected Cake Eater readers, tend to spoil the fudge. I present for your edification, Moralism kills hope of less vicious vice: {reprinted in its entirety because it'll slip behind the subscription wall soon enough}

Morality is choosing to live one's life by a code of behaviour.have your cake and read more too!

Once again I've been remiss in posting over here long enough to have the Cake-Eater top page go blank. Dang it, I hate when that happens. When I originally took it upon myself to try and keep this place warm against the day that Kathy decides to come back to it from her self-imposed hi-atus, I reckoned this would not be too difficult. After all, my general approach to blogging for the past three years has simply been to toss out whatever wanders into my head based on the nooz, what I read on other blogs and stuff that happens in my own little patch of the real world.have your cake and read more too!

{Insert exceedingly brief moment of abject humility here} I take it back. I take it back. I take it back. I take it back. I will now proceed to shout it from the rooftops in case four takebacks did not adequately get the message across. Ahem.have your cake and read more too!

View image Oh yes...Phin is definitely on to something.have your cake and read more too!

I've got to concentrate! - oncentrate! -oncentrate! I've got to concentrate -oncentrate! -oncentrate! Hello? -ello? -ello? Echo! -echo! -echo! Now batting,-atting, -atting..... Mannyyyyy Moto! -Moto! Moto! Moto! Yes, I am serious. And don't call me "Shirley."

You, stop now and think. You see that celebrity across the coffee shop? Is your instinct to grin and gush and fawn over them? Trying to decide if you have the temerity to approach and offer a kind word or ask for an autograph? What the hell for!? Think. What has that person ever done for you? Sure, it's possible that you appreciate the work of that artist/politician/actor/author. But it is equally possible that you find that celebrity's work to be utter crap.have your cake and read more too!

Whoops! Looks like I let things go too long here, as my last post just dropped off the face o' the blog, leaving nothing but the stylzed image of your lovely hostess, Kathy the Cake-Eater. Not that this isn't pleasant in itself, but I hate to think of all that blank space going to waste. Gotta think of something quick. ......... Oh, I know - One of my main frustrations about blogging is the fact that I can't discuss my work. On the one hand, there's the whole attorney-client thing. On the other, there's the complication of working for Uncle Sam.have your cake and read more too!

So my section is having its annual picnic tomorrow. Heigh ho. Whenever we have one of these little office do's, I'm always reminded of the words of Marvin the Paranoid Android, who once said, "You needn't bother trying to engage my enthusiasm because I haven't got one." I signed up to bring some kind of munchies. As it happens, I've got a whole desk drawer full of those little bags of pretzels the airlines hand out, gathered on my many bidness trips this year. Think anybody'd notice?

http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=171&p=2&c=573014 I managed to write an article about the ISU/Texas debacle after nothing more than listening to the game over the radio while working cattle & hauling big round hay bales in from the field. This is easy. Why didn't I go into journalism? This career is even easier than leaning on a shovel with a Department of Transportation repair crew. ISU plays in-state Division 1AA Northern Iowa this weekend in a night game. We're going up to the game early to try and get a good parking place.