I'm not kidding.

Wish I was, try explaining this movie to someone who hasn't seen the trailer.

So, uh....

That was me trying to get the tablet to recognize my handwriting. Yep. The good thing is I find typing to be much more conducive to conveyance. I’ve diddled around with the preferences and what not and I’ll be hot damned if half of what I type doesn’t come out sounding encrypted at best. Go figure.



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Short Hiatus

Sorry, I've been so slow lately. I have this cold I can NOT seem to shake and it's kicked my ass again this weekend. I'm gonna focus on getting better so if it's quiet on this end it isn't because Depp and I have run off to Aruba, alas, it's because I'm in bed with tissue stuffed up my nose.

*sob*

Now I don't like the newer models, I'm all about the contrasting PIA panels, but, this means buying another used will be that much more difficult. I love my Element, it's debadged and looks like a little green tank.

The Honda Element, popular with dog owners and some types of businesses, will be discontinued after the 2011 model year, American Honda Motor Co. announced Friday.

Introduced in December 2002, the Element started a trend of box-on-wheels design reflected in Toyota's Scion xB and Mitsubishi's Outlander, among others.

"The Element proved that ultimate functionality can often come from thinking inside the box," John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda, said in a press release. "It made boxy vehicle designs cool."

Edmunds.com gave the short-but-tall utility vehicle generally positive reviews.

"Behind that cubist philosophy is a level of versatility that sets it apart from many other small wagons and compact SUVs," the editors wrote of the 2011 model.

The Element was the subject of several recalls: 2003/04, ignition switch mechanism; 2007/08, braking system and stability module; and 2010, transmission shift cable.

Honda said it has sold about 325,000 Elements, but customers are increasingly attracted to crossover SUVs.

Wednesday Review - Granola Lab

Coffee and Chocolate Granola

First, the name. I like that instead of conjuring up what granola usually does, for me anyway, patchouli and body hair (both in excess) I envision stainless steel ovens.  This is a big plus.

Price: It's $7.50 a pound which is quite reasonable. This comment is not meant to encourage GL to increase its prices.  In fact, if you are GL, skip this part. Given that the ingredients are organic and top notch and the product is hand made by some folks in Brooklyn, its a nice price point. I'd be hard pressed to pay more, it's perhaps worth more, but it's all about me right now.

Shipping: Fast. This is really important when ordering food online as normally you are ordering it because you want to eat it NOW.

Packaging: Brown coffee type bag with a plastic peekaboo window. Nice label, cute design. Ingredients listed in order. My only thought is that a caloric serving size type label is needed. I don't need the whole how many whatever of vitamin A, but, I would like to know how many calories are in how much granola. In this case, ignorance is not bliss.

Flavor: I ordered the Gingersnap and the Coffee and Chocolate flavor. Yum! In fact, despite the healthy things like raw sunflower seeds, my ten year old son LIKED the Gingersnap. I just forbade him to look at it before he tasted it. Not because it looks yuck (see pic) but because it doesn't look like a Ho Ho and therefore would be judged inedible.

Ginger Snap

The balance of flavor and ingredient is something to behold, nothing overwhelms, at no time are you feeling like you are eating something you have to because it's good for you. The Gingersnap in particular is fantastic. Think gingersnap dipped in milk.

Plus, they don't put too many raisins in it. I can't tell you how many good cereals have been ruined because of raisin overload.

The Coffee and Chocolate flavor has coffee nips in it that have been ground up enough that you don't crack a cap or lodge a nib. What? That's never happened to you? The chocolate is subtle, which i Appreciated, I was a little worried it would be like Cocoa Puffs or something but its all very cohesive.

In fact, cohesiveness is really where Granola Lab excels. I'd imagine they got pretty sick of granola by the time they figured out the right balance.  It's baked perfectly, obviously they signed a pact with Satan or something because that, in homemade granola, is not an easy thing to master.

So there you go, that's your Wednesday  review and it's tasty one too.


UPDATE: I have been in touch with the talented and charming Alex and GL is in the process of writing up a nutritional label. Alex warns that this label may not be great news, as granola is high in calories. I assured Alex that anyone who cares enough to ask is painfully aware of that. The trick is finding granola that is worth the caloric intake, which, I can state with utter conviction, GL's is.

Still....here....

Ducks, rows, all that good stuff. I have learned mostly how to use a MacBook, spreadsheets of the simplest kind, Bento 3 and iPhoto. Now I have to take pictures. Which I enjoy doing about as much as I don't know, dentistry maybe? Except I have a Xanax script for dental work.

At this point I have just put the the idea of making new things aside. Spending the rest of this year working on The Big Plan. Which, for now, seems to consist of me figuring out some sort of reasonable lifestyle. You know, where I give up the do everything notion and figure out what can be done?

Just that part should take me well into December.