Flecks of… Gray?

Here’s a few pics of the latest little nephew dude.

Ginger Snaps

2 cups flour
1 Tbsp ginger
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses

Soften margarine, add all ingredients except flour and mix. Add flour 1/2 cup at a time and mix each time. Roll into balls about an inch in diameter. Roll in a bowl of sugar to coat and place on pan. Cook at about 350F for 7 to 10 minutes.

Rice Pudding

1 cup long grain rice
1 1/2 cups cold water
a pinch of salt
1 tablespoon margarine
1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Combine rice, water, salt and butter in saucepan. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer until water is absorbed. Combine cooked rice, milk, vanilla, sugar, eggs and raisins. Pour into lightly greased casserole.

Bake at 325 for 45 minutes, until set.

Makes 4 to 6 servings.

I was interested to see what we thought each others energy levels were over the course of an average day so we eached graphed what we thought we were:

Here’s what Heidi thought of us (she’s navy and I’m light purple):

And what I thought of us:

Some insights quickly come to mind:

1. I’m a geek for doing this (you’d be right)
2. Heidi has lower expectations of energy output than me, I figure I’m kicking it at 100% every day
3. I think sleeping is closer to 0% than Heidi does
4. Heidi thinks that I rarely ever get close to her level of energy output until 6pm, which is probably pretty accurate.
5. I think that we have pretty much the same pattern, she’s just ahead of me by a few hours.

That’s it, now that you know how, why don’t you do your own energy level chart and post it on your blog??

I was checking through the IMDb top 250 rated movies and I’ve seen so many of them that I’d make a list of the ones I haven’t seen in the top 50 of that list…

14. Rear Window
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. 12 Angry Men
28. Lawrence of Arabia
30. It’s a Wonderful Life
31. Sunset Blvd.
32. American Beauty
39. Paths of Glory
47. The Third Man
49. Hotel Rwanda

In the top 50 of the 2000-2009 decade that I haven’t seen are:

9. Hotel Rwanda
21. Oldboy
24. Amores perros
25. Before Sunset
33. Talk to Her
35. V for Vendetta
37. Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom
39. The Magdalene Sisters
48. Vera Drake
49. In the Mood for Love

These lists tell me that I have some Japanese and 50′s era movies that I need to catch up on

This is fun, let’s do the 90′s too…

7. American Beauty
27. La Haine
28. Central do Brasil
31. Festen
39. Trois couleurs: Rouge
41. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
44. Chung hing sam lam
45. Delicatessen
50. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Well, I guess I’ve got my work cut out for me

Our 13th (!!) nephew (nieces count too) was born yesterday morning to proud parents, Rick and Jacquie. As far as I know, everyone is doing very well, more details will likely not follow.

OK, so out of the six CDN NHL teams, four made it to the playoffs. First to get knocked off were the Habs, then the Flames. In the second round the Senators went but through it all the Oilers hung on and are now the last remaining CDN team vying for the cup. Tonight they’re playing the Ducks and I’m there biggest band wagon jumper fan seeing as I typically loathe them (I loathe the Leafs more though, of course). Go Oil!

These CDN teams didn’t make it

These CDN teams didn’t even make the playoffs at all!

In reading the IMDb today I saw an interesting quote from Ian McKellen, “insisting Christians should be happy with the theory that Jesus Christ married and produced a bloodline.” Hmmm, why should these Christians be so happy about this new revelation?? “This would be absolute proof that Jesus was not gay.” Oh, right, that was exactly what I was concerned about, thanks Ian I do feel better.

Now this guy can juggle!

vs.

Ever since game 3 when the Habs lost in OT I felt that they were toast – they were flying so high and to lose that game was devastating. Tonight, in my favorite LA restaurant (Sushi 21), I was able to witness the overtime game winner for Carolina to put Montreal out of the playoffs. Too bad… well, go Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton!