Archive for January, 2012

And Then There Was Beer!

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 23rd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Saturday evening we attended a dinner and auction fundraiser for our son’s school. I was looking forward to spending the evening with friends, and even meeting a few more of the parents. I wasn’t really thrilled when I approached the bar and saw the …



Points In My Life [pointsinmylife.com] 2012-01-22 20:30:00

By From http://www.pointsinmylife.com/ • Jan 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Would you like a cup of coffee? A muffin cup — of coffee? These scrumptious chocolate chip coffee muffins will give you your coffee AND chocolate fix. With a dab of creamy icing to finish, this is one “muffin top” that you won’t mind seeing. Easy to m…



School Lunches Were Never Like This

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Fredericksburg Christian Lower (Elementary) caters in fast food every single day. Monday – Pizza of undetermined origin. Tues – KFC Wed – Subway Thur – Salsarita’s Fri – Dairy Queen Really? This is what they are teaching kids about healthy eating? This is a $7000 a year private school, you’d think they could do better […]



The Ultimate In Aged Beer

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’ve mentioned aged or cellared beers in the Musings previously, but for us, five or six years old is about as extreme as it gets, so far. A recent discovery in Great Britain shows what can be done under proper conditions. 2,000 bottles of a …



My school lunches were never like this

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Fredericksburg Christian Lower (Elementary) caters in fast food every single day.

Monday – Pizza of undetermined origin.
Tues – KFC
Wed – Subway
Thur – Salsarita’s
Fri – Dairy Queen

Really? This is what they are teaching kids about healthy eating…



Incompetent Working For Useless

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

“All of my senior managers are paper pushers. They won’t be able to help you.”

Verizon had just accidentally canceled one of my phone lines and informed me that it can’t be reinstated due to FCC regulations. That’s the response I got from a pho…



Statewide tornado drill March 20th

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

It’s never too early to start plugging this event, even if there is snow and ice on the ground!



VA ABC Privatization Pessimism

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Virginia Governor McDonnell has long been a proponent of the privatization of Virginia’s liquor sales. After some intitial momentum, the proposal was killed last year before even being discussed in committee. Now it appears the Governor is less sure of…



Star Wars Uncut

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I just watched two hours of the most brilliant film making ever put to “film.” Star Wars uncut takes home made fan recreations of Star Wars from 405 film makers (I counted in the credits) to produce a scene by scene recreation of Star Wars. It goes from fairly serious attempts to recreate the movie […]



Those Crazy Italians

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Don’t get me wrong, I love Italy, but this video made me laugh out loud. And after visiting the country a few years ago, I’d say “Yea, that’s about right.”

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