Tis the Season

Happy Holidays...

Movietime with Jaime

"Mom! There's a new Clint Eastwood film out where he plays an old man!"

Strangely enough, I think she's decided she wants to see the movie. I'm sure it's a good film, but it's a bit of a departure from the usual High School Musical fare she typically wants to go see...

Why yes, everything really is better with bacon...

I have to thank Katrina for being the first person to step up to the plate and take on the Bacon Chocolate Challenge! She also did a fantastic reading of the back of the packaging, putting a lot of emotion into lines such as "what began as a love of salt and sweet quickly unraveled into an obsession. No longer could I wait to unveil the royal coupling in solid bar form..."

Seriously, how can you not want to try this chocolate after that?

So, after taking the advice on the box to "rub your thumb over the bar to release the aromas of smoked applewood bacon flirting with deep milk chocolate" the tasting began! And it was actually pretty good! Katrina liked it, too. So, my $6 was well spent.

I also learned that it's a lot harder for someone to say no to the bacon bar when it's right in front of them. So, I was pretty happy that I was able to convince some other folks at work to try it, with varying responses. I guess not everyone really understands the appeal of bacon chocolate.

And the piece de resistance... I even got my mom to try it. She described it as odd...

Everything's better with bacon!

Well, I'm not so sure anymore after coming across this at Wegmans tonight...

Yes, it's a chocolate bar... with bacon in it. I was horrified, yet strangely entranced at the same time. I think there's something wrong with that and feel somewhat dirty.

I came very close to buying it just so I could say I ate bacon chocolate. Then I saw that it cost $6 and started to question if I wanted to spend $6 on something that is potentially horrifying.

Now, late at night, I'm wondering again. What if the bacon bar is actually good? Chocolate is good. Bacon is good. Maybe it'd work. Or not. Maybe the taste will sear my soul...

I think I'm going to give in to the temptation in the end...

Just so I don't disappoint the fans...

I apologize for not writing sooner. Most of my thoughts have been dark lately, despite the holidays, but I'd rather not write further about that at this time and focus instead more on happier things. Such as the sign above! Enjoy...

Our new 51st state...

What I especially love about this sign is the fact that it's so easy to come up with dumb jokes about it...

Q: Why does the P&C misspell so many signs?

A: Idano!

Sadly, Idano is not as well known for the potato. However, it is famous for...

My life in a box...

Normally, I'm not one for internet memes, however this one was pretty neat:

1. Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr Search engine.
2. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
3. Copy the URL of your favorite photo into this site: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
4. Share!

The questions:
my name / favorite food / hometown
favorite color / celebrity crush / favorite drink
dream vacation / favorite dessert / what I most want to be when I grow up
what I love most in the world / one word that describes me / my username


Alex / filet mignon / Elmira, NY
black / Zachary Quinto / coffee
Alaska / raspberry pie/ a hermit
Jaime / evil / Sampo

(I must admit that I did bend the rules a bit by searching for Jaime strictly though my photoset...)

Rochester Travelogue

So, I went to Rochester for work today. It was cold, grey and snowing a bit. Perfect travel weather...

Anyway, between meetings I took my lunch at the park at the Lower Falls, since there was a geocache I wanted to grab while I was in town. Despite the weather, the falls were still an impressive sight. And I'm sure that the park must be gorgeous during the warmer months. (no pun intended...)

I also got to see the park's bizarre statue, the Seat of Forgetting and Remembering. The sign explained that the sculptor used hand and face casts of hundreds of people in Rochester and described it this way, "the sculpture with its may relief designs of faces and hands celebrates our ONE-ness as humans as well as our unique characteristics."

I, however, was quite disturbed by it and have re-christened it as "Evil Stonehenge."


Maybe I just don't have an appreciation of the arts, but the only thought that came to my head after viewing this was, "ACK! DEMONS!"

Seriously, I'm going to have nightmares about this...