Tag: food
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The Christmas Song
Chestnuts were roasting last night…not over an open fire, but in the oven. I first had roasted chestnuts during my many business trips to Austria a few years ago, and I fell in love with them. I ate them every chance I got. I had been chestnut-free for awhile though until I found a street…
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What hurricane?
I had plans to go see the VT-Duke this past weekend, but I totally bailed when Ivan came up from the Gulf of Mexico and took dead aim at southwestern Virginia. So what happened then? A beautifully sunny day in Blacksburg, of course. Well, to be fair, the drive over on Friday evening might have…
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Random Musings
If you’re going to New York to exchange gifts and celebrate Christmas with your family, you might want to bring the gifts with you. 🙁 Apparently, it’s “okay” to have awards and parties spewing hatred and making comparisons to genocidal dictators as long as the person you’re talking about is named George W. Bush. :whocares:…
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Weekend Recap
Ok, so the gallery is fixed now. Seems I floogled something during the upgrade process and not everything was copied over correctly. Thanks to the folks over on the discussion forums at the gallery for helping me debug the problem. Oh, and I just made up the word “floogled”. I added a wedding day countdown…
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Car Alarms are the Devil
TGIF. Nothing like a hot bowl of chili on a cold winter day. Had some friends over for dinner this evening so it’s a good thing I threw together a crock pot full of chili this morning. It was bitter cold last night so it felt really good to climb into a warm bed. That…
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First. Entry. Ever.
This is the very first post for the brimon.net blog. Spent the last few weeks putting this site together, most of the time spent creating the photos section. I just added the wedding and about us pages so those should be working now. Still have to do the Jack and Links pages and whatever else…