Archive for February, 2010

Another fabulous dinner

I’m still working through the amazing menu at Lily Macs. Tonight was the gnocchi pesto. I still haven’t made it to breakfast yet. Trying to convince myself that stuffed apple French toast is appropriate with beer. Even better was the company! Introduced Curling Boy and Intern’s parents to my local Irish pub. (Intern has already [...]

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Lilly Macs grand opening saturday night

Pure promotion. My favorite Irish pub, where everyone knows my name, is having their grand opening tomorrow night. Live Irish music by Celtic Soul. Come one, come all! Lilly Macs, Murphy Street, Sunnyvale.

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We won!!

We finally won our first pub quiz night! After coming in second, and then third last week, we won by three points this week. We even aced a quiz about names of people from the bible used by rock bands. The answer to the first question (Judas Priest) we guessed after hearing the title of [...]

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Mood lighting

I’m sitting under the television in Lilly Macs, waiting for quiz night and trying to catch up on blog posts. Under the tv was a poor choice in location. Why? Because the tv is behind me, and as advertisements play, the brightness changes. And when the brightness around me changes, my laptop adapts to the [...]

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My favorite flowers

Great Grandmother would be so proud. I’ve finally come to appreciate flowers. As if you couldn’t tell from my obsession with posting pictures of trees blooming in February. Part of the reason is also because I never saw flowers on trees in Maine other than apple trees. So many trees here flower! In the last [...]

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Reasons I don’t live in New England

Saw this on Failblog.org this morning and it made me laugh. It is wicked accurate! see more Epic Fails

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Reasons I don’t live in New England

The cherry trees have been in bloom for the last week. It is February. :-)

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Farewell, Aunt Fran

Yesterday I learned that my Aunt Fran has passed away. Aunt Fran is actually my great aunt, my grandmother’s oldest sister. They were a family of four girls, just like in Little Women. Aunt Fran was Meg, the oldest daughter, responsible and motherly. I felt a connection with Aunt Fran since we were both the [...]

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Tuesday Nightcap with John McLellan

Seems that Wedding Singer isn’t getting enough of his fans, so he has started doing a live ustream show on Tuesday nights at 7pm (pacific time) at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/johnmac-live. You can also see previous recordings by going to that link now, including tonight’s performance, a practice last week, and video of his hair being shaved off [...]

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Answer to the puzzler

So there seems to be a couple different answers to this question Three coins, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter, are flipped. It is revealed to you that one coin is heads. What is the probability that the nickel is heads? It seems to depend on how people interpreted the question. The most popular [...]

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