The luckiest day of the century

Today is everyone's lucky day. 7/07/07. It's also a chilly day here in GG. We're testing a condiment dispenser and it's humming away cooling down and getting ready to be loaded up with goodies like relish and pickle slices. Health department regulations require that such dispensers hold food at 41 degrees F. That is the test.

Chicken wings for dinner last night. On the barbecue, cooked almost to done and then brushed with butter for a mahogony hue and some crunch to the bite. This is the ultimate finger food; greasy mouths and always the danger of burning the lips because you just can't wait for the darn things to cool down. Mashed potatoes are willing accomplice to this over-indulgent meal: translation in (goes in really fast), dul (all good sense goes out the window when you smell them), gent (what you used to be before you started tearing into the wings like an animal). A small salad and a glass of TJ Chilean cab for $2.99 were also consumed. Such a meal can't ring up more than $5.00 on the cash register but feels like a million bucks while you're eating it.

Fresh strawberries are sitting on the counter drawing fruit flies. They are teetering on the brink of over-ripeness and you can smell them all over the house. Tonight they will find themselves in a salad with sliced almonds, citrus olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Maybe a salmon filet? After a day of inhaling strawberry aroma, my focus is entirely on the fruit. My sister-in-law made strawberry ice cream the other day and this is weighing heavily on my mind.

Another new computer in the household. Richard recieved his Lenova Think Pad tablet sized computer. It's a real fly weight and should be easy to haul around. They now come with nothing much but a cord to plug it in and then they have a life of their own. You name them press a few buttons, listen to a little song and they are born. This one should be called Teenie. We'll see what he comes up with.

Off to pick up a lottery ticket or place a bet on something. Gamblingrevenues will be off the charts today.