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RIP Barbara Walters.

Still celebrating my paid week off, for Christmas. Today's giant breakfast... Taco omelet, consisting of Carne asada, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole. Toast, breakfast sausage and home fries. Yes, I cooked entirely too much food! Pretty sure half of this will be lunch.

Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Quanza and a wonderful Festivus for the rest of us!

Excellent! In a similar lane...

Have a phenomenal Christmas. I enjoyed watching Suzy tear open her gifts!

I bought some Tequila, pepper, lime seasoned cubed beef for tacos. Once I cooked the meat, the moisture let off created a wonderful, brown seasoned liquid, that I scrambled eggs in and cooked some onion and bell pepper. Shredded some cheese and built some incredible breakfast tacos. Yum!

Have an incredible day!

A nice Christmas Eve lunch/dinner.

Have a phenomenal day Ken!

I bought truffle salt on your personal recommendation to me. Thanks a hell of a lot, as now I can't do without it! This is what I found. I have no comparisons, but really like it.

Chicken Katsu salad from Starbird Chicken. Way better than this has any right to be!

It's not cool! One man's Walnut rolling pen is another man's Ebony penis extension. Al, do I have a case for infringement?

I feel like Brent could incorporate those into his peirced nipple jewelry collection.

Just to be a stickler, we're talking hard Maple. Not just any Maple would be optimal.

Nice.

He showed you how to kill 30 minutes.

Love the Ash! Not sure I'd pair it with Maple. I think something darker would be a better contrast. Cherry and Ash look great together. Or tint the Maple with a dye.

Bananas are my favorite fruit, next to myself.

I know many don't like Country music, and think it simple, hillbilly prose. And a lot of it is forgettable to be honest. But in the same way that I love early blues music, I love early country music. It's the blues of the blue collar worker. It tells of the struggle of the common man (me), and the best of it does it poetically and gracefully. Bobbie Gentry is an artist that never got the respect she deserves in my mind. In 1967, a time when "girl singers" were singing about standing by their man, and overlooking his faults, Bobbie Gentry penned "Ode to Billie Joe". A song about two teenagers that had a secret affair, got pregnant, hid it, then threw the newborn baby over a bridge to keep from being discovered. Then the boy commits suicide, because he can't live with what he's done. And she delivered that song with poetry and grace. Three years later she penned the song "Fancy", about a poor "white trash", sickly mother and her two children. One a starving infant, and the other a girl on the cusp of womanhood. The mother knows she's dying, and the only way she knows to give her daughter a chance at a better life, is to dress her up and "turn her out". I don't mean kick her out. Turning someone out is a phrase popularized by pimps, meaning to make the woman they've been grooming start turning tricks. How this woman managed to get any songs published at that time is amazing enough. Only a very few women were taken seriously as song writers. But to convince a producer to publish songs of such a serious, taboo nature is almost miraculous back then. Worth a listen if you're not familiar.

That looks fantastic Marc!

I had seen them on YouTube already, but those folding stairs were a great idea.