Dinner and weird thoughts

For Dinner tonight we had Roast Pork with lots of garlic.

I thrust a knife into the joint at various places, pushed little pieces of garlic in and found the flesh sort of closing to seal the garlic inside.

It was very reminiscent of suppositories.

Doesn't this defeat the object?

I discovered something on Firefox called Private Browsing.

Apparently it enables the user to do whatever they want to do without leaving an obvious trace in 'history' for someone to find (accidentally or by searching) which sounds handy for someone doing personal stuff like banking (no, I said banking) on a shared computer.

Obviously it helps if people would prefer others not to see what they've been up to for a variety of reasons.

Now although no trace of the sites visited is listed in History, apparently the switch to Private Browsing is recorded there.

Doesn't this actually draw attention to the fact that someone might want to keep what they were doing to themselves?

A few days off

So Spurs make up the full complement of four in the Champions League Group Stage and Liverpool comes through a tough Europa tie without their most important players. Excellent.

SS and W are discussing some Laurel K Hamilton book. Bloody Vampires are everywhere. lol.

Blog Anniversary

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear my world and welcome to it
Happy birthday to you

One year old today

1975

It's almost 35 years to the day when I came to Canada for the first time.

Although I've often commented on the coincidence that it was New Brunswick we came to and that's where I now live, we also visited Montreal and that's where my wife is from.

Great service at the hospital again

Registered at blood clinic, sample taken. Off to X-Ray department. Took number, registered, waited, had X-Ray. Back home less than an hour after leaving home.

The Bilingual Commandments

I made this up

Phew!

Spurs nearly blew it.

Another hot stuffy day today. Aircon back on.

Confused by chocolate

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this; it's that confusing.

In the UK we had Marathons, Milky Ways and Mars Bars. Marathons became Snickers. Dunno why. To fall in line with America?

The US Mars Bar is supposedly the same as the Brit Milky Way, or so I have read, but the Canadian Mars Bar is the same - except peanut free. Not that I've noticed the difference.

But I've had something in Canada that was a Brit Milky Way with a different name again.

Snickers appears to have been renamed as Believe in Canada but today I saw it repackaged as Snickers again.

I've just read that back in 2006 the Brit Mars Bar was renamed Believe for that year's World Cup and it now appears the Believe name was chosen in Canada, similarly for the Olympics.

So we have an American Mars that is equal to the Brit Milky Way while Canada has a different bar equal to the Brit Milky Way. Then the Brit Mars became Believe followed by the Canadian Snickers becoming Believe and all this after the Brit Marathon became Snickers.

Just as well there's no Topic over here.

Jeopardy

Just reading that Zsa Zsa Gabor was given the last rites.

Apparently she had injured herself falling out of bed watching Jeopardy.

Perhaps it's just me but...

A mild irritation

It seems I may have to pay a bit more for the footie after all.

Rogers has created a new sports channel to (fleece) better serve its customers. They do this by providing events already covered but spread over more channels so one needs to subscribe to more channels in order to get what one already gets.

It seems to be a standard con for TV companies.

Friday the 13th

Huh. It's just a day like any other owww!

2+2=5

I picked up a tin of "half the sugar" iced tea.

The label gave the breakdown per 9g and said sugar was 8g.

Sugar is already taking up 88%. There isn't room to double it.

Goal line action

In England's last match a shot was well over the line but the ref didn't award the goal.

The next England game the ref wrongly awards a goal to the opponents when it didn't cross the line.

And these things are supposed to even out?

Future stars

So I was watching the England under 21 game this afternoon from Bristol City's ground and I was reminded I saw England under 17s play Spain there a few years ago. 2001 to be precise.

It set me wondering if I'd seen future World Cup winners in Spain's team, so I tried to find the team lists for the game.

One Wayne Rooney played for England. Spain only had Iniesta and Torres and the following year Silva, who isn't a starter for Spain now.

It's funny, we hear all this stuff about Spain developing all these players and having a natural progression to the first team and while they are plainly producing far better players than England, their future "stars" are no more likley to actually become stars than England's future stars.

Big breaths

Yeth and I'm only thickthteen

Footie

I've been looking at the scheduled games on TV. Looks like there's more than previously without having to pay a cent extra.

A few Championship games too.

Footie's back

It's barely been away what with it being a world cup year, but it's back. Not the Prem, that's next week.

What a way to go

An 86 year old is making porridge on her gas cooker and her sleeve catches fire. She is unable to do anything and she dies from burns.

Some moron comments "Burnt Porridge" in the comments blog of the newspaper site where the article was published.

Now I have a sick sense of humour, but I'd keep that to myself instead of posting it on a news report for all to see.

Getting on

Hey, I'm nearly a year old.

Recipe of the day

Corned beef hash.

Diced spud fried, with onion and then corned beef added. Nice now and again even if it can be a little sickly.

Well I'll go to Putney and have a boat out.

Just saw The Infidel. Another great line.

What’s this, you find out you’re a Jew and there’s a man in uniform taking you away?

A favourite bit of movie dialogue

MICHAEL: Did you find a job?
VICTOR: Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress and undress.
MICHAEL: Nice job.
VICTOR: Twenty francs a week.
MICHAEL: Not very much.
VICTOR: It's all I can afford.

sigh

More problems with diabetic supplies.

The drug plan provider has an estimate from the pharmacy for the cost of, among other things, 100 syringes. They have a letter from the doctor detailing 4 times a day shooting.

So one assumes they would have worked out that 100 syringes last 25 days and that for a 30 day month, 120 would be needed and arrange cover accordingly.

It now appears they do it strictly by calendar month. This raises two questions:

• why no helpful advice right at the beginning about collecting 120 each month and not 100 every 25 days?
• given that we have collected every 25 days, that means every few months there will be two billed payments, so why hasn't it been picked up before?

The pharmacy said I had to get on to the plan provider and the provider said I had to get on to the pharmacy.

To their credit, the provider contacted the pharmacy and agreed a revision to the estimate over the phone. So, as of the following month, the supplies should match 120 and in the meantime the pharmacy could issue an advance.

We got the advance (20) on the 30th.

On the 1st of the new month we collected what ought to have been the balance ie 100.

But it was the packs of 100 minus the 20 advanced.

Meaning the monthly supplies have not been revised as arranged.

*sigh*