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Shout Out!

Baconnaise gets a shout out on Jon Stewart's Daily Show! W00t!

(No! It's not complimentary! But bad publicity can be the best publicity!)

I'm Pretty Sure This Is Why My Mom Thought MTV Was Going To Corrupt Me

I Should Have Taken A Photo Of My Boots

Oh wait, I did.

I love Pops Resale.

Because I Know You Wanted To See Another French Video

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
Uploaded by Boebis

Un Peu De Légèreté

h/t Elisabeth

Excellent

Thanks to all who commented on my previous post. The feedback was great, and I think it's important to note that buried power lines do not mean you're safe from outages.

Granted, I'm taking your comments at face value and have done zero research myself. Heh. 

In a departure from the norm, I'm also not responding personally to each comment to the last post. My apologies, but I don't feel like eighteen (okay, seven) different conversations on the same subject is helpful. I do thank you for taking the time to comment, and I appreciate your points of view.

Next post will be a little more lighthearted, promise.

It Snowed Again

All day. All the day long it snowed, and I watched as the local schools had an early dismissal as the snow piled up. School was canceled all last week, and it's canceled tomorrow.

An hour ago I looked out on the patio. Our table out there has about three inches of accumulated snow on it. For me? That's nothing. That's barely good enough for sledding.

But for once I don't wish to make light of this situation. Last week's ice storm proved me wrong, and I understood how very lucky we were to have electricity and heat. I know the schools are just playing it safe. The country roads outside Lexington are hazardous in snow. School buses + country roads + snow = super liability. But this blog entry is not about the school closings or the bus routes or the sad reality that we live in a litigious society.

Something has to give. I fail to see why the state of Kentucky should be in crisis mode every five or six years. How much did this latest storm cost in terms of manpower and cleanup? And how much would it cost to bury the power lines?

What's that old saying? Oh yeah, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. See also: a stitch in time saves nine.

Way To Go, Sixburgh!

The Pittsburgh Steelers take home a sixth Lombardi trophy. Rock on, Steel City.