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Today was a nice sleep-in, lay-about day, while we waited to be whipsawed by the 83° high – 33° low temps today, a 50 degree swing. Then it’s 43° – 29° day tomorrow.

Jan’s finished up with all the cookies she’s been doing, getting ready to pass them out to local friends.

Then after a quiet nap-inclusive afternoon Jan heated up the Hodgepodge Beef Soup again, which along with toasted Hawaiian Rolls, made for a delicious meal.

Tomorrow of course being Sunday, it’s back to Barth’s for their Turkey and Dressing/Fried Chicken Buffet. Mmmm. Mmmm. Always Good!

Landon started receiving some of his Christmas presents today. Between Brandi and us, we bought him A thru M of the A to Z Mysteries for Kids. Written for 6 – 9 year olds, they should be right up Landon’s alley.

Often when I buy something from Amazon, I will check out the reviews, and usually make a point of reading the 1 reviews for a good laugh. Here’s one from these kid books.

1.0 out of 5 stars Silly me

By Emberon December 25, 2011

Verified Purchase

I am very fond of mysteries and psychological dramas, and was very disappointed when I read this purchase, as it took me 10 minutes to do so. Somewhere in the listing there should be a word or two about the age appropriateness of the book being offered. (It IS listed under Children’s Books) I may have liked it if I was in 2nd.grade. This experience has caused me to re-consider looking at the Daily Deals.
I guess I should have realized the title indicated a juvenile selection, but I thought of Agatha Christies ABC Murders , not a kids book, so took a chance at this one.
Now I know my ABC’s.

Landon, Brandi, Lowell, and friends, Chantelle, Eric, and Maddox Nugent, went on the Pecan Grove Lights Hayride, the same one we took with them last year. Looks like a good time was had by all.

Yesterday, while I was talking to my good friend Nick Russell on the phone, I looked up at the TV screen and saw Guy on Diner’s, Drive-Ins, and Dives, doing a story on a place we’ve all been, Joe’s Farm Grill, out in Gilbert, AZ, right down the road from Apache Junction.

You can see the episode here. http://joesfarmgrill.com/food-network/

Great place to eat if you’re in the area.

Regular readers will remember my recent articles about the Electoral College and the recent election.

The Electoral College – Why?

The 1960 World Series and the Electoral College

Frederick Douglass, The 3/5 Compromise,
and Our ‘Racist’ Constitution

Posted under Greg’s Musings, with these articles, I talk about the reasoning behind Electoral College and why the Founding Fathers set things up that way. and more importantly, why the concept is still valid today.

Of course there’s been a number of calls for the elimination of the Electoral College, but seeing that it’s part of the original Constitution, it would take a new Constitutional Amendment to eliminate it.

Well now we’ve got a novel idea about the Electoral College from an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. He thinks the Electoral College can just be ignored because it’s, get this, ‘unconstitutional.’

To get to this point he has to talk himself around in circles, pretty much saying that the Founding Fathers shouldn’t have put it in the Constitution, thus it shouldn’t be in the Constitution, therefore it’s ‘unconstitutional.’

Of course as I said before, I wonder he would have been writing this article if the results of the election had gone the other way.

Or it could just be that, as a commenter said on a legal blog, an ‘adjunct professor’ is the lowest of the low, just one step above a grad student.

Thought for the Day:

In another of my recent ‘Musings, What If We Erase Our Past?, I talked about we’re losing our past by trying to cover up our past mistakes, hiding them from the future. Well as it turns out, it looks like Winston Churchill had the same thought.

“If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.” Winston Churchill

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I was hoping to get another text from Todd about a gate this weekend, but no luck so far. But I still could, so here’s hoping.

Of course, I’m not sure a gate in 30° weather would be much fun.

About 1pm Jan and I headed out for lunch and Wal-Mart. Our lunch stop was our second visit to Flashburger. Although it has the look of a franchise location, according to Google, it’s the only one.

As before, I had the El Jefe burger, with Two Patties, Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, a Fried Egg, Lettuce, Tomato, Onions  Pickles, Chipotle Mayo, and Flash Sauce.

Which piled all together looks like this.

This time we got their Regular Fries  which were really good. There are two different ways to fix French Fries, low heat and high heat.

High heat (375° – 400°) gets the dry, crispy McDonald’s type fries, while a lower heat (325° or so) gets you the softer, moist, textured fries with a lot of flavor. It’s not a matter of how long they’re cooked. In fact, if you cooked them longer at the low heat, they will just get tough and chewy, and not crispy.

Jan got a single patty burger, with Cheddar Cheese, Sautéed Mushrooms, Sautéed Onions, Tomato, Mustard, and Ketchup. Hers looked like this.

Both our burgers were delicious, as well as the fries. There will be a third visit for sure.

Before we left I told Jan that I was going to the restroom to wash my ‘good’ greasy fingers. When she looked questioningly, I said, “You know, good, from greasy hamburgers and fries, and not ‘spent the afternoon replacing the wheel bearings on the car’ greasy.

As we were leaving we told the cashier that the only thing that would make the meal better would have been onion rings. She said that they were working on onion rings, wings, chicken tenders, and fried green beans. Looking forward to it.

Then it was on to the Wal-Mart right up the hill, and that’s where things went off the rails.

Our first stop was at the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for Jan, and when I reached into my back pocket for my wallet, my hand all the way out the bottom of the pocket. The bottom was torn out and my wallet was gone.

I backtracked out to the truck while Jan made a quick stop at the Customer Service Desk to see if it had been turned in. Then we drove back to Flashburger and when I walked in, the cashier was holding up my wallet.

Whew!

I figured it would be rude to check things until I was outside, but was a little disappointed to see that, although my cards were all there, my cash was gone, somewhere between $20 and $40. Not a big deal, but really?

The only thing I can figure is that my pocket got hung up and tore on the booth bench seat slats, and then fell out when I went to the restroom to wash my hands. I’m assuming that that whoever turned it in took the cash.

Well, maybe a kid got a better Christmas.

Thought for the Day:

I don’t like hunches. Too many times they’re right.

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