Thanksgiving donuts

I did get to see our daughter before I headed off to work last night......it was really nice to have all the family members under one roof.....even if it was only for an hour or so before I had to leave.

I went to this site to download some stuff for my Palm Pilot.......I'm such a geek but there is so much cool stuff out there to download.

I had to work Wednesday night into Thanksgiving morning, it's always fun to watch all the last minute shoppers come in at 1 AM for stuff. Since I smell up the entire store with baked food+donut aroma, I usually get a few folks that come over to see what I'm making.........if I was on commission-I could make a fortune.

I sold one couple a dozen donuts, 4 pies, several loaves of bread, a cake, some pastries and then more donuts. I think they woulda came back into the bakery and helped me make stuff if I let them.

Very bad analogies.........

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

........I remember writing stuff like that when I was in high school.


I was never a cat person before but since we now have one.......I kinda am. I still like dogs, but there is no way we could have one.

Holy crap. I'd pay to see something like that. Best thing I've ever seen happen was some lady that ran smack into a light pole in her minivan while she was talking on her cell and then coming into our store to complain about the light pole being there.

I listen to lots of podcasts at work. Mostly news, NPR and tech stuff. I use an earpiece that looks like a hands-free cellphone thingie so no one suspects I am listening to stuff. Which is good because I think I'd go insane if all I had to listen to all night was the piped in music.

I wonder if it shoots tater-tots.

Good article on how computers are overcomplicated. I have my laptop configured to shut off when I close the lid. Makes sense to me. I'll be working with a client next week explaining some of the basics of using a word processor and the same thing applies there as well. There's 5 ways to do the same thing and none of them are any better or worse then the others.

If anyone I know manages to do this without catching their house on fire-save me a drumstick-I'm kinda curious how fried turkey tastes. Actually, I can't believe they sell propane powered deep fryers for turkeys. Those things aren't very safe.

Grease fires aren't fun. I used to work for a large donut wholesaler and one of their 40 foot long 3 feet deep fryers caught on fire once. Talk about being scared shitless. My boss misted water from a pressure washer over the fire to put it out. The water turns to steam and puts the fire out. Who knew?

According to my stats, there are a couple of folks that read this blog that are in the Mideast, I am assuming that they are probably US servicemen and women stationed there.

Happy Thanksgiving to you folks and I hope you make it back to the USA real soon.

Till later.