Vesak Day and Other Randomness

Today is Vesak Day, (Buddha's birthday) and is a public holiday. I have wiled away the hours reading blogs and doin' the mess-around with my blog template. When I was at Mick's-page, I noticed he had some cool counters by NeoCounter. So, I decided to check it out for myself. I went with the "Current Cities" counter and a message board. Check out my first chat session with WHH.

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Kentucky Girl was kind of enough to leave me a suggestion in the comments for my console. She suggested I get a vase. Now, I had the vase that I have here on one of my Mah-Jongg tables in the living room, but I thought, why not put it on the other end of the console? I think it is a bit too tall, but at least it's red and something is there.

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Thursday evening, I decided to try red snapper in my rockin' wok and bok choy in my new saucepan. I was advised that the reason my sauce sucked last time I tried to make bok choy was because I didn't dilute the oyster sauce. I'm told that all the gourmet chefs use Chinese rice wine to dilute the sauce. I gave it a try, but it was still too salty. I added some water and a tbsp. of cornstarch. It was perfection! Ooh yeah! Go me! It's just that this time I over-steamed the veggies. Whaddya' gonna do, uh?

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Stupid Stuff:

WHH saw this article on MSNBC: " Australian gay bar allowed to ban heterosexuals --Locale can even turn away lesbians to preserve atmosphere, court rules"

Why not make it a private club and be done with it? Because you know, everyone but gay men have been excluded. WTF? This is just wrong.

Then, I came across this one: "Choir director canned for focus on wrong organ -- Catholic priest removes musician from church who sold sex toys on the side"

The woman was an unpaid "employee" who needed money to pay her medical bills. That priest is a stupid pig!

Dark Damian did a diatribe on this stupidity: "The 275 graduates of Dripping Springs High School are not getting their diplomas after district officials say some made Friday night’s ceremony at Shoreline Christian Center a circus by yelling, blowing bubbles and bouncing beach balls through out the crowd"... (click for rest of story)

And finally, I leave you with this one. A few nights ago WHH and I went to to a steak place for dinner. When I was away from the table, he Secret Squirreled a pic of the menu with his phone...