Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bad Mommy!

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Monkling

Tonight Frank & I went with Theresa to a Mexican restaurant we like. She usually wouldn’t be joining her parents on a Saturday night but we were going to BJ’s afterwards and she wanted to go shopping with us. BJ’s … Continue reading →

Posted in La Famiglia | 2 Comments

Superbowl Parties

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Monkling

I’m not really a football fan, much less a Super Bowl fan, although I do like seeing the big, showy commercials. I will confess, though, that I did watch last year simply because the Patriots seemed just a wee bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Ramblings | 2 Comments

Converting CSV to mySQL

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Monkling

Regular Readers: you’ll want to ignore this. It’s boring, technical stuff. I’m just posting this here as a little public service act. There is another, real post just below this one. Everyone else who actually searched for this: read on. … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Internet, Technology | 5 Comments

Peanut Butter Recalls

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Monkling

Please tell me people aren’t quite that dumb. I was looking at the FDA website to see just which products were recalled. I don’t really have any peanut butter products, just plain old peanut butter & wanted to make sure … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, In The News | 4 Comments

Distasteful Cooking

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Monkling

Y’all know that random, odd things pop into my brain which I then feel compelled to share with my blog readers. Today’s random, odd thing has to do with cooking, just in case you didn’t get that from the title. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food | 1 Comment

Head Bangers

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Monkling

Subtitled: More things you don’t want to hear from your kids. “How can you tell if you have a concussion?” Theresa asks me. “Why?” “I jumped on _____’s back…” I immediately cut in yelling, “What??? Are you out of your … Continue reading →

Posted in Ramblings | 3 Comments

The Burlesque Show

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Monkling

I was going to take the day off today from blogging. I was going to declare this Sunday as a day of rest. We were out most of the day – first to Mass, then to a dinner that our … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of High Def

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Monkling

First, we had to play with the new high def stations. This is how the game goes: Find a show that’s on NBC. Tune it to it. Then switch over to the NBC high def channel. Keep hitting the ‘last’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 3 Comments

Webcams, Restaurants & Sambuca

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Monkling

I’m pretty sure I mentioned once before that we have a webcam. We use it to talk to Stephen on Skype and I love it except when the boy doesn’t sign on for days & days. Then I leave him … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Italy/Italian | 4 Comments

Cable Guy, Part 2

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Monkling

The good part about switching over to fiber optics for everything is the cable guy got here early – 8:30 & was done by 1. Another good part was he wasn’t afraid of the dog, which made my life tons … Continue reading →

Posted in Ramblings | 5 Comments