I walked past a downtown restaurant and noticed they had painted a big mural on the side of the building. Bright red brickwork with their big logo and the legend underneath said;

“Icon Grill - Aroused Americana Cooking.”

I’m not quite certain what Aroused cooking is!

Maybe they sprinkle their food with liberal quantities of aphrodisiacs, something like a heap of powdered Blister beetle¹.

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1. commonly called Spanish Fly [↩]

I have business cards for this blog and ordered some for the Mentalism stuff I am getting into. Posted a picture over on the other blog.

Thought Reader cards

BBC News Friday: Article on BBC News site I saw was about a study that says Europeans get drunk to increase their chances of sex. Apparently “this study showed many young people were “strategically” binge drinking or abusing drugs to improve their sex lives.”

I guess you get people together who are blitzed and their guards are down and they have risky sex.

I don’t know, I’ve never been totally drunk, just buzzed but even then it definitely doesn’t improve my sex life. A couple of Margaritas and I’m on the bed prancing around thumping my chest and roaring like Tarzan. Then the room starts spinning, I feel weird and collapse off the bed into a heap on the floor. Carolyn hasn’t even come into the room yet!

BBC News article Europeans Get Drunk to have sex article

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One of our grand kids, Aurianna, came over, she painted grandma’s toenails then came upstairs to write some “sentences on grandpa’s computer.”

Standing watching as she typed away I squirted some hand sanitizer onto my hands.

“What’s that grandpa?”

I wasn’t sure she would know the word sanitizer so I said, “Hand cleaner.”

“Grandpa, it’s hand sanitizer!”

That was me told, they grow up quick.

On the bus going into town a car went past with an unusual paint job, by unusual I mean hand painted monstrosity! The person obviously decided to use a four inch paint brush and some surplus paint he had laying around. The base color was turquoise with white and grayish wavy stripes painted all over the car. Nice!

Then I saw a hybrid car that had a rear license plate frame that had a red LED animated sign on it. Like stores have in their windows with messages scrolling along it, but small on the bottom of the frame.

Not sure what it said as it whizzed past, maybe something like “If you can read this you are too close.”

But I thought it could be distracting, someone could see it and speed up and get closer in an effort to read the message. I know I wanted to urge the bus driver to speed up so I could read it, “Dude hurry up I have to get the details for a blog post.”

Coming home on the bus I noticed a car that had a crap load of bumper stickers all over the back. I wrote down a few, but there were quite a few of them.

“More trees less Bush.”

“What would Scooby do?”

“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather, because it is easier to harass rich women than biker gangs.”

I thought they were funny.

Okay, whose idea was it to add me to the list to get medicare insurance junk mail, I’m nopt quite there yet people!

Saw this guy Andrea Vadrucci from Italy on You Tube and added him to MySpace, his drumming videos are great. I once had aspirations [sic] to be a drummer when I was younger, when friends and I wanted to start a band in High School. But getting my arms and legs coordinated like this guy seemed beyond me.

I turned my speakers up opened the window and made sure the sub woofer under my desk was on full, the floor and walls were thumping!

Carolyn and I have have been speaking about moving, just around the corner to a place all on one level instead of two like we have now. We have already started sorting through stuff to get rid of unnecessary items. We always seem to have boxes of stuff that follows us around and never gets opened!

We have boxes and boxes of photos as well as pictures the grand kids have drawn for us. I told Carolyn we need to look into some custom picture framing so we can get some of the photos and pictures framed and on display. I also have some Houdini posters I’d like to get framed.

Carolyn said when we move she wants a new desk, one similar to mine so we can have a more organized office for our computers and other electronics.

But we are excited ab out a possible move and having everything exactly how we like and all coordinated instead mismatched like we have been for a long while.