Truly Random Thoughts

Foods are less sweet here, but you can really taste the cream in your goodies.

Candy is called sweeties.

Halloween isn’t a very big holiday.

When driving on the motorway (a two lane freeway, 70 miles an hour and no shoulder) there are these little food stands. They are generally made of wood and look like old trailers. They are literally right off the road as though you would pull over on the shoulder. One recently had a large sign posted “Under New Management.” Apparently you can buy hamburgers and sausages at them. Some of the counties have recently passed rules saying they must serve healthy options like salad and yogurt. The controversy is that these items don’t sell and the shopkeepers are simply throwing away money. It does seem that sometimes they have more laws about “protecting” you. I think adults should be able to eat all the hamburgers and sausages they would like. It is their butt!

Issues with knife violence is big here. There are lots of TV and radio commercials right now, trying to educate and prevent the violence. (Probably because guns are banned.)

Beef tastes different. I can’t explain why or exactly how, but it is. We can’t wait to come home and have steak and hamburgers.

I still struggle with driving on occasion. I get lost and miss turns off of round abouts. (AK how did you do so well here so fast!)

High School Musical (HSM) is all the rage. On the Marks and Spence site (Dayton’s) there is a HSM clothes section.’

They use the florescent yellow in the way we use florescent orange: Police and worker vests, traffic cones, emergency vehicles, etc.

Cheers for that: is often used for thank you.