Homemade Gourmet Pop-Tarts A Sophisticated Take on the Breakfast of Champions Gary sent me this recipe because he knows I love my breakfast of champions food...Pop-Tarts! OK I've been given a hard time for eating them so I have cut way back but man they are tasty. Prepare the dough: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place the flour in a bowl with the salt, sugar, and cut the butter into small pieces. Work the...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we went to see Wicked on Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre. The Safeway Employees' Association (SEA) was one of the group sponsors that night, so there were a bunch of people from Safeway. Before the show, we went to Osha Thai for dinner, which was really nice. We sat in the balcony, which ended up being great. I never once thought we were sitting too far...
Beginning of the Show Grand Finale Gary and Charisse invited us to join them at the Brentwood Cornfest last night in Brentwood, CA. Charisse works for the High School so she was able to get us into where they shoot off the fireworks from the school football field. Being so close to the fireworks was great because they were really LOUD (the first few were really loud) and really BRIGHT. To give you an idea...
I take my camera to as many places as I can, so when I was in Minneapolis, MN a while back I filmed a flour mill tour at the Mill City Museum. Minneapolis is called the “Mill City” and has lots of old mills that sit along the Mississippi River. This video isn't going to win any awards, but the museum did such a great job depicting the life of an average mill worker, I...
Why having more options often leads to less happiness and what we can do about it Barry Schwartz's groundbreaking research reveals how too many choices can lead to decision paralysis In our modern world, freedom of choice is considered one of our most fundamental values. We celebrate the ability to choose from an ever-expanding array of options in every aspect of life – from consumer products to career paths, from healthcare plans to retirement investments,...
What I learned: "David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 percent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten...