Snow, Thai and Shatner

Well it's a little warmer today, still no where near 0, in fact we're still in the negative double digits but not as bad as yesterday. To make things even better, it's snowing. Huzzah! I've yet to experience a major storm here yet though. Kinda disappointing if you ask me. It's snows a lot, but it's a few centimeters at a time. Then it melts or blows away or freezes and that's it for a few days, then more of the same.

Despite the weather, I was in need of provisions. Going out to lunch every day is fun, but a little costly so I try to avoid that. But the last 3 days I had to as I didn't get around to going shopping. So I decided to do that today, after of course I had dinner, at a restaurant.

There is this Thai place not too far from where I live which is phenomenal. And right across the street from there is a Vietnamese place. That place is good, but they aren't as friendly and polite once they found out I was American. It's really quite odd, yet amusing. So, even though the food there is good, I didn't feel like dealing with their Victor-Charlie routine so I ate at the Thai place. The food is real good, priced good and they speak French in the kitchen... That means its authentic. I highly recommend it. It's called Ban-Lao-Thai. Probably the closest I'll get to going to Thailand.

Then after that, I did my shopping. I made two interesting purchases tonight. One was a bottle of Carling Black Label 10%. Which is supposedly like Carling Black Label (everyone's favorite) just with a lot more alcohol. mmm. Tastes more like if you pissed in a bottle of rubbing alcohol and said it was beer, but like a champ, I'll finish it. There are starving alkies in Ethiopia ya know! And my other purchase was a box of Kellogg's All Bran. You might be saying, "but John, with your healthy digestive tract, why would you need something like that?" well, I'll tell you... William Shatner was on the box. Shatner is pretty popular up here, after all, he was born here. One of my posts will be all about the Shatnerism that goes on up here, but that could take a while, so, one of these days, you'll see it. But anyways, Kelloggs has an ad campaign for All Bran up here. They want you to take the Two-Week Challenege to make Fibre (that's how they spell it) your friend. Shat is their spokesman (more irony for ya). The campain slogan is: William Shatner took the Challenge and he said: "I felt really good about it." Well, that's good enough for me!

Time for TV and to finish choking down that Bottle of Carling's.