Fresh & Easy Chopsticks

We just picked up some California rolls at Fresh & Easy and the package comes with these disposible, collapsable chopsticks. Half plastic, half wood – how green can that be? Update: Here’s a picture of “green” chopsticks. 🙂

Bonekickers

I just watched the first episode if a new BBC series entitled Bonekickers. It’s about a team of archaeologists. I have but one question to ask: Do they cast and write these shows just to create material for Dead Ringers to send up?

More sleazy union tactics

Tomorrow, the Fresh & Easy near my house will finally open (it’s about 8 months late). Once again, the scumbag union – with obviously way too much money at their disposal – are canvasing the neighborhoods, leaving glossy fliers to try to sabotage Fresh & Easy’s business. I suppose that’s what unions do, isn’t it? … Read more

Everyone gets into the act

First the Catholics tell us that Jesus was a cracker… Sorry, that a cracker is Jesus and now the Presbyterians are getting into the act by telling us god (de-emphasis mine) is a verb. I guess that’s just one of the problems of allowing faith-based schools.

Apple Store

Apple opened up their fifth Apple store in Arizona yesterday and the fourth in the Phoenix metro area. This location is at the Arrowhead Towne Center which must have been a difficult choice for Apple. Apple seems to like to choose upscale shopping venues, but those are few and far between on the west side … Read more

Curved Kitchen

Construction on the kitchen has finished… which is not to say renovation has stopped, there’s still a lot of painting to do. Here, then, is the final cabinet arrangement along the east wall. Photoshop couldn’t quite cleanly stitch the 12 photographs together… the wall isn’t warped (at least not like this) and the countertop is … Read more

The Kitchen Progresses

It’s been a frenzied day (and last evening) of building IKEA kitchen cabinets. Our handyman finished the sealing of the new tile floor and today marked the start of cabinet installation, so I had to get them ready. I’m actually quite impressed with the ingenuity that IKEA has engineered into their cabinet system – with … Read more

Shooting reporters for the good of China?

When I first read this article, I thought the Chinese had come up with a clever way to get rid of pesky journalists in the run-up to their Olympic-committee sponsored propaganda orgy they’ll be having next month. Three Chinese reporters attending a police briefing on the success of an anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot, media … Read more

Kitchens – Specifically

So, we have all that new-found (potential) income and Ikea only holds their prices stable in one-year increments, so, come June 30 prices on the rest of our kitchen cabinets were due to jump – or, possibly, be discontinued. In the last week of June we purchased the cabinets to complete our two-phase kitchen renovation. … Read more