Recent content by DeeDub

I've been buying ribbons from Swartz Ink over in La Grande, OR (https://www.swartzink.com/) and, to wind my own, e.g., on vintage spools that are difficult or expensive to replace, I buy in bulk from Baco Ribbons in Missouri, (314-835-9300 or bacoribbon@sbcglobal.net)

I'll put in another plug for Northwest Hats and yet another alternative to custom. Mike Miller at Northwest knows hat history and technology inside out and he's a dedicated hat artisan. I learn something new every time I visit. He's making me a custom fedora right now -- fortunately I got in...

After a simple dinner this evening, I had an Anchor Steam for dessert. If I'd thought of it, I might have had that for dinner, too.

I just watched Fat Man and Little Boy with Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, John Cusack, and Laura Dern. Very intense. Now I need a rest. How about a mindless sitcom?

Great photos. You notice the TV isn't the focus of the room? In that last photo, is she checking him for lice?

We can't get Hamm's out here any more. At least, I haven't been able to find it. Or Schlitz. Or Falstaff. Or Burgie.

Okay, that works. This time I went for the Bacardi Superior rather than the Gold for no particular reason. I went about three shakes on the bitters; two as you recommended would have been enough, I think. Just enough ice in the shaker to match the volume of liquid and about five or six tosses...

I'm in the last couple of chapters of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold History of Pearl Harbor by Gordon Prange. It's a long read, practically an hour by hour account of the year or so prior to the attack, followed by a thorough account of the several investigations by the Army, Navy, Congress, and...

Double feature, playing at a DVD player near me I treated myself to a twofer: The Last Detail (1973) It came out about the time I enlisted and I saw it then. There was a lot about it I could identify with then. Still is. Avalon (1990) When Avalon was in theaters, I hadn't heard anything...

Ad Hoc Tropical Yesterday I picked up a bottle of Torani passion fruit syrup and a bottle of DeKuyper orange curacao off the free table at work. (The free table is a longstanding tradition at my company. Everything from junk to treasure, first come, first served.) When I got home, I couldn't...

Could it be just the opposite? Wood is a good insulator, so perhaps it's keeping heat outside the lines from vaporizing the fuel.

I'll have to put that one on my list. It looks like one worth breaking out the FasTrak* to cross the bay. I'll offer in trade a nice, homey little place on Monterey Highway in San Jose: Southern Kitchen Coffee Shop. http://www.yelp.com/biz/southern-kitchen-coffee-shop-san-jose * And...

Turbo Just saw Turbo this morning. Surprisingly fast-moving for a story about a snail. A lot of action and slap stick comedy with an undersnail, er, underdog theme. I recommend it.

I'm in San Diego this week visiting family and friends. What a shock, turning on the local news and hearing local football hero Junior Seau had killed himself. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/02/report-of-shooting-at-seaus-home/

Here's Cassidy, my dragon. Er, dogon. Er, Cocker Spaniel. I used the photo to make a book that I carried as a prop to go with my Hiccup costume for a How to Train Your Dragon theme party.