Women and Children First!!!

I could have also called this post, Led Zeppelin III.

Namely, two relatively lousy albums by two really good groups. My point being, a band forms, they've got about 20 songs that they're good at, and they all go on the first two albums. Then it's like, uh oh, we gotta come up with something now from scratch. Obviously both bands recovered just fine -- Zep's 4th and Fair Warning are both awesome.

So that brings me back to this. Most of my snarky comments on the universe in general have been used up. I don't really wanna re-post "cash is like a gift certificate, redeemable ANYWHERE", although it's appropriate at Christmas time, I suppose. And turning this into a diary certainly doesn't appeal to me, either. Like, Oooh, I was invited to play "Talisman" this weekend for the first time. I actually think it's good to use a diary format to launch into decent discussions, but really, the last few weeks -- I got nothin'.

Yeah, my new job starts Monday. Posts will be less frequent -- I'll actually have co-workers to discuss things with -- as the blogosphere tended to be the equivalent of a water cooler at times for me. (Comment on the interesting ones, but get back to work in a couple of minutes.)

Here's a story. One that my daughter was able to re-tell at school in their unit on family traditions/backgrounds, etc. When I was two I was up in Maine, crawling on the kitchen table and noticed a plastic salt shaker. I proceeded to drink the salt straight out of the shaker. Then I threw up all over the place. My mom had to clean it all up. Like she needed another reason to dislike going up to her in-laws' cabin in the middle of nowhere, huh? It's especially enjoyable in that whenever I'm back up there, such as this past summer, the same salt shaker is still in use, I believe.

Anyone ever have almond butter? I bought a jar before realizing it was like $11. Certainly it takes a back seat to peanut butter, but it was still pretty good on Ritz crackers. The company also makes a cashew butter, but I'm not the world's biggest cashew fan.