Even though the bulk of the construction is over, our apartment community is still not 100% done with the renovations, so new things happen every so often. One of those things is the introduction of a custom made outdoor pool…
Grilling a Bacon Sandwich
As our regular readers will know, we have taken up grilling quite extensively. We have grilled most days since the new pool area opened back up (that video really will come out some day, but due to technical difficulties, not quite…
Minor Differences: Unexpectedly, High Fructose Corn Syrup Part 2
So we thought we’d done a good job of cutting out all the HFCS, as we talked about in the previous post. Unfortunately, this was not entirely true. We get grocery delivery orders from Safeway every week or two. I…
Grilling Chicken Tikka
Chris has gotten closer than ever to his dream of making ‘proper’ chicken tikka at home thanks to the grills where we live getting up to 600F/315C. If you have a grill and want to try it yourselves: Score 1.5 lb…
Doctor Who: Ranking the Steven Moffat Era Part 1
I have chosen to divide this by Doctor, not companion, as I did for Russel T. Davies. I think the change in Doctor was a bigger break in tone than the change in companion. whereas Rose or not Rose defined…
Minor Differences: High Fructose Corn Syrup
A difference between the US and the UK is the plethora of corn grown in the US. Corn is eaten in the UK, but on a much smaller scale. A common corn based product in the US, high fructose corn…
The Unexpectedly Rural Side of Chandler
Something that I didn’t realize is how rural the area quite near us is. This is still such a new state. Much like California, before the tech boom, there was lots of farming. Also like California, there is still a…
Lego Baby
This is a short post about one the cuter things to come out of LEGO recently. This year for the first time, LEGO has released a baby mini figure: This baby was not the very first, but it was certainly…
25,000 Miles
The last major milestone we hit in the car was 20,000 miles on the very last day we traveled last year. I think this will be the last one we hit in a while. The other night, we were re-watching…
Impressions on Housing in the East Valley
The conventional wisdom in the US and the UK is that ‘renting is a waste of money’. We have had a look at what owning looks like in Arizona, and I’m not so sure that’s true here. We recently had…