Tag: food
member name: David Rochester
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December 26, 2006 11:08 AM EST --
My first and best favourite cat, Coppelia, is suffering from some sort of skin irritation which is causing her (and, by sympathetic extension, me) great discomfort -- she's scratching all the time, . . .
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January 31, 2007 10:38 PM EST --
I was obliged to run several errands today, a task made unwarrantedly burdensome by the fact that I felt out of sorts and under the weather. Since I didn't have anything scheduled after the errand-running, . . .
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September 29, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
This morning I ate breakfast at a small local bakery and witnessed the antics of a man who was clearly a soi-disant Flamboyant Character. He was seated in a way that allowed him to talk . . .
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September 30, 2006 12:32 PM EDT --
Today when I was at the checkout stand at my local bio/eco/free-range/organic grocery, the cashier handed me three five-dollar bills in change, instead of the three one-dollar bills I was due . . .
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October 07, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The night he had her over for dinner, things went wrong. He'd made tuna casserole, which she hated. He hadn't followed the recipe correctly, and it was a soupy mess. "I don't . . .
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October 08, 2006 12:11 AM EDT --
Today I had lunch with a colleague at my favorite Portland restaurant, Nostrana. In the middle of dessert, she suddenly announced: "They should rename this restaurant. . . .
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October 01, 2006 02:33 AM EDT --
This evening I had dinner with my friend Diane, whom I met a couple of years ago when I was the president of a business networking group. She is a few years younger than my mother, . . .
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October 02, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Last night my father and I threw a 60th birthday party for my mother that I fear she won't ever forget. Highlights of the evening included, but were not limited to:
1) Her best friends . . .
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October 04, 2006 12:25 AM EDT --
This morning I had breakfast at the Cadillac Cafe, a restaurant decorated around a vintage car which is perched in the center of the main room, rather like an unconventional hunting trophy. I was . . .
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September 26, 2006 10:36 AM EDT --
Today while I was eating lunch at my favorite bakery I observed a classic specimen of The Aggressively Masculine Man. This particular specimen was rather small of stature, so . . .
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September 27, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Yesterday I had occasion to purchase three dozen donuts to serve to a gaggle of realtors who were previewing one of my new listings. It took one of the girls behind the counter . . .
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September 21, 2008 01:07 PM EDT --
1) Josh was telling me the other day that the BBC, which doesn't run commercial advertisements, will frequently run public service information after upsetting programmes, providing hotline information . . .
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September 23, 2006 12:55 AM EDT --
I was obliged to run several errands today, a task made unwarrantedly burdensome by the fact that I felt out of sorts and under the weather. Since I didn't have anything scheduled after the errand-running, . . .
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September 21, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
Today while I was pausing in front of the refrigerated produce section of my local bio/eco/organic/free-range grocery, testing the red flame seedless grapes to see how fresh they were (by pinching . . .
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September 20, 2006 12:28 PM EDT --
Last night I had the pleasure of observing a three-year-old child in its natural habitat, and I was interested to see her exhibit two behaviors I wish more people carried into adulthood:
1) Unaffected . . .
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