Blue-Frog

… as usual. Trying to figure out the format and layout. Hopefully will start posting again one of these days soon. When I have time. When do i ever?

Wow… just found this old post that was in drafts.  Not a lot of time for updating lately, everything seems to be updating on the baby (Rebecca)’s blog instead.  I’ll try to put my own personal stuff in here, nothing is too new outside of us having the baby in July, being out of work on Maternity Leave and just generally chilling.  If i can get a handle on how to update this, i’ll start again.

*hugs* to my friends!   ~Alison

After a holiday haitus, and lots of work, i’m back. Look for updates in the near future

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7141458.stm

Author Terry Pratchett is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease, it has been revealed.
In a letter published on the website of artist Paul Kidby, the writer said the condition was behind a “phantom stroke” he had earlier this year.

Pratchett said his statement should be interpreted as “I am not dead” and that he had taken the news “philosophically” and “possibly with a mild optimism”.

That sucks. Hopefully with advances in technology they can stave off the effects as long as possible.

Well, again, its that time of year for the making of the bacon buns (latvian piragi) as i’ve been reminded by pretty much everyone around me. Looks like this year its gonna be a 3 weekend event — this is why I only do it one month a year, cause its a pain in the rear. This weekend past we managed around 280 from 3 batches, with 2 more weekends of cooking ahead.

Karen was looking for the recipe, so I updated the file into a PDF.
bacon_buns.pdf

Heres a couple of pictures of a finished bun pile. Mmm.. piragi goodness.

I spent most of the weekend blaming mom for being Latvian, and for not being able to bake so this whole thing falls on me. Yes, they do taste as good as they look.

From saturday nights’ bake-off … 280 buns and 8 hours later, we’ve finally produced the evil screaming bacon bun of doom. See the evil eyes and bacon tongue?

… its only evil because I have 2 more weekends of Bun making to go. Great.

Ran across this site today — very neat idea. A word is displayed, and you need to guess the meaning. If you get it right, 10 grains of rice are paid for by the advertisers to help feed people.

http://www.freerice.com

Its linked into poverty.com, and i thought it was a neat idea. Build up your vocabulary, and donate at the same time
Read more –
http://www.freerice.com/faq.html

So it was Moms birthday today, and I asked her what she’d want — and she jokingly asked me to make her a Simulation Alapca farming game .. so for a joke, I made this for a card –

(Based on the SimFarm game)

Yep. I’m still lame

I ran across a really cute little point and click game on Newgrounds by a guy named Zeebarf (who I think does animation for a show called Sons of butcher on Teletoon).

I played through it, and its not super complicated, but a good little diversion on break.

What to do:
- Click on stuff to interact
- Click on stuff in order - it does make a difference
- Hover your mouse arrow over items until it turns into a hand - that means you can interact with it.

You start off as a little alien sluggy thing, that lands in a lake in a meteor.

I made a walkthrough, just cause. Don’t read any further if you dont want spoilers.

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Here he is giving Charlotte a good seeing-to.

Adam made a post a while back about an encounter with a vulture in his travels up north.

Today while me and my bf were going to the fish-store at lunch, we see a big bird flying overhead.

me: “hey, its a vulture. Thats wierd, a vulture… near work. Maybe something died”
bf: “yeah something died alright, over there” *points*

So, surely we had to pull over and take some pictures and make a short video. Without further ado, here’s a Vulture eating a dead goose on the side of the road, in an industrial/commercial area of Toronto.

The stink was tremendous.