Chef Boyardee And Midweek Culinary Capers

by Kevin Burton    Got re-acquainted with an old boyhood pal last Wednesday and I had lasagna for dinner.    Sounds like glad tidings, yes?    Well maybe not so much. The “lasagna” came out of a can.    This all started with an e-mail from the Interesting Facts website, that alerted me to the …

Turning My NFL Sunday Inside Out

by Kevin Burton    I don’t know what that was last Sunday, but it was something, and it was personal.    Was it a self-boycott, playing hooky, a tantrum ( I am good at those)?    I guess it was the fantasy football version of the line “I’m just tired and bored with myself” from …

Interesting Facts About Fast Food Chains

by Kevin Burton    Pretty sure I have mentioned on Page 7 that I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Here’s a possible clarification for 2024.    What I should have said is I don’t get close to the new calendar year and make a resolution, just to have one.    There is one that occurs …

Two Threats Looming For Christmas Tree

by Kevin Burton’    O Christmas tree O Christmas tree, I’ve got your back O Christmas tree!    Is this me re-writing a classic Christmas song?  No it’s not. Hear me out.    Thanksgiving (the holiday, not the action) is over.  It is now cool to play the Christmas music and put up that Christmas …

Dictionary Highlights Man’s Best Friend

by Kevin Burton    I have suspended my devotion to cats long enough this week to share  some dictionary words from Merriam-Webster that pertain to dogs.    Before we continue with their list, here is one the dictionary curiously left out – dog days.    Dog days is “the period between early July and early …

Merriam-Webster: Words Inspired By Dogs

by Kevin Burton    If you read this blog regularly, you know I am a cat guy. A cat whisperer, my wife says.    Today we’ll give equal time to dog lovers, by revealing some of the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s list of words inspired by dogs.     According to Forbes, 44.5 percent of US households have …

Taking The Shake Out Of Shake ‘n Bake

by Kevin Burton     I am not definitively saying that Wal-Mart, distributor of Vibrant Life cat litter, is squeezing customers financially. I didn’t do the documentation.    You see, my boyhood pastime of reading the back of cereal boxes did not linger into adulthood and cause me to read for information, such things as cat …

Lowes Hates Me And I Hate It Right Back

by Kevin Burton    Please know up front this is not one of my angry product/company boycott posts….but I hate Lowes.    Please know that Lowes is our go-to store for all things home improvement. Just about all the problems we’ve ever had at Lowes were our own fault, because we bought the wrong thing. …

Childfree By Choice: No Kids, No Regrets

by Kevin Burton    When Mrs. Groves went around the room asking us fifth graders how many children we wanted to have when we grew up, my answer was two, three or at the most four. This was part of sex education class.    Well, you really shouldn’t hold a person to anything they say …

Long Live Caffeine, Death To Bugs

by Kevin Burton    I am late to the great caffeine-vs-decaf debate. But if we take caffeine from our coffee, let’s certainly not throw it out altogether.    Why not?  Because caffeine is a natural insecticide, according to the New York Times and others.    Yesterday I mentioned that I am considering switching to decaf …