Hugh Hollowell

Honestly, these are awesome, very rich, not way too sweet fudge brownies.
* 1 cup melted margarine (2 sticks)
* 2 cups sugar
* 4 medium eggs
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
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A lot swimming around my head lately. I am busy as can be, yet not much seems to be happening. Things that should be being done are not, while I spend my time swamped by administrivia and paperwork.
There is so much I want to write about, but when the “work” is done, there is [...]

These two posts do a much better job than I ever could explaining the disconnect I feel, and why I will not be buying an iPhone.

This is one of the funniest things I have read in a while.
I love this quote:
“It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”

We are, I think, spoiled.
I read an old business etiquette manual from the 1950’s the other day and it said I should return all phone calls within 48 hours. That would never fly today. Now, we want it now.
The proliferation of social networks do not make it any easier. Now instead on only one way [...]

Yesterday I went to Edward McKay, a used bookshop here in town, and loaded up.

Elizabeth George; A Traitor to Memory
Elizabeth George; In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

I love Elizabeth George for her detailed plots. Wonderful when I need to decompress and just read for fun.

Karen Armstrong; The Battle for God

I loved her History of God [...]

but I won.
Read about my tangle with the State Police. By the way, you do know YOU are the one I am calling to bail me out, right?
Also, I posted some “First Day of Summer” pictures from Pullen Park on Flickr.