Outpost 505

Let’s just get something out of the way here: I have an ice cream problem.  I would eat ice cream every day if I were allowed to do so.  And this summer, I’ve been doing just that.
It doesn’t even have to be good ice cream!  I am an equal opportunity ice cream eater.  It just [...]

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Let’s not talk about how terribly I ate today, OK?  Too many cocktails + painfully hot weather + a solo evening while Shane was braving frighteningly foul weather at the 13th Annual Michigan Summer Beer Festival equals a hungry and unmotivated E.  It was the kind of night that required ice cream, knitting and a [...]

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In the late 90s and early 2000s, I was pretty obsessed with The Tea Party, a now-defunct Canadian band heavily influenced by blues, prog rock, and various flavors of world music.  They last toured the States in 1997, when I happened to catch them opening for Jimmie’s Chicken Shack at the Barrymore in Madison.  I [...]

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We hit the road for Rockford tonight, where we’ll be spending the weekend visiting my family, meeting our new nephew, and having the last of our wedding receptions.  According to Google Maps, the distance between our house and my parents’ is 320 miles, or an estimated drive of 5:46, with an hour gained by crossing [...]

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I don’t really know why we haven’t been cooking much this week, apart from the fact that we were gone on Tuesday. Maybe it’s the nice weather and trying to exercise after work? Maybe I’m just not feeling inspired by the recipes we picked while feeling simultaneously overwhelmed by the weekend’s leftovers? [...]

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Does this ever happen to you?  Every few weeks, I get to a point where I just really don’t want to think about food.  I don’t want to make it.  I don’t really want to eat it.  I certainly don’t want to be responsible for deciding what it is that I don’t particularly want to [...]

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Did I have dinner?  Honestly, I’m not sure.  I don’t have much of anything to do at work these days, which often leads to boredom masquerading as hunger.  Combine that with an office kitchen that frequently overflows with snacks and is located three feet from my cubicle, and you’re in for danger.  Today was another [...]

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