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Editor Log: November 2009 (log)

2009-12-01T03:58:47Z

Well, "they" say a 10-year anniversary is a good time to look back, to see where you've been and try to see where you're going. Tom and I celebrated our 10th year together last year by ... well ... me trying to remember the exact date and not succeeding! We laughed, enjoyed some happy memories of the years, but mostly congratulated ourselves on having made it that far. Many couples and organizations don't, and sometimes if they do, they find they've become something quite different than what they were.

I think E2 can do all those congratulatory things, and bask in the glow of still being what it set out to be: a place for writers to write. Has it changed? Of course – there's a thriving community now, and the noder population has settled down into a fairly committed group of talented writers that still welcomes new users. E2 still provides that place for writers and would-be writers, a place to learn to write and write well.

There…

Old Southern Slang (personal)

2009-10-08T23:56:08Z

Well, I had no idea this node existed on E2, but I've had a lot of fun reading the writeups. I was born in the eastern part of Kentucky and grew up in the west, in a small town near the old Confederate capitol of Kentucky, Bowling Green.

Consequently, I've heard, and used, many of the sayings and slang in these writeups. However, I remember some that my late mother said frequently, that I don't see anywhere here. Now, Mama's people originated in England, Somerset to be exact, but they emigrated to America in the late 1500s and morphed into pure Kentucky stock. I'm not at all certain of the origin of these sayings, but I have heard some of them from others with whom I grew up. Imagine most of these said in a slightly indignant tone of voice ...

"You'll shit if you eat regular, too!" -- This one's a little hard to explain. Let's say I had this conversation with Mama:

Me…

August 16, 2009 (idea)

2009-08-16T17:33:35Z

Well, silly me, I must be some kind of a dolt. You see, when Barack Obama was elected, I thought perhaps we'd emerged from our long nightmare, and that reason and civility might return to the public discourse. I hoped I might be able to cease apologizing for being an American, and that my country and government and fellow citizens might no longer be the laughing stock of the known universe.

What was I thinking? For example, the recent debates over health care reform have proven me wrong, so wrong. That alone would be enough to dash my hopes, but there's something else (and I'm not referring to "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" Gov. Mark Sanford).

I'm talking about the so-called "Birther Movement". You know, the wingnuts that are convinced that President Obama wasn't born in the United States, but in Kenya, and is therefore disqualified from the Presidency. At last count, 53% of voters in Virginia and 54% in North…

Children of the Corny 5: 5'll get you 10! (event)

2009-08-09T04:19:54Z

Much like E2's beloved , we also seem to have a blind spot when it comes to nodermeets. So come join us again in beautiful downtown Heyworth for . . .

Children of the Corny 5: 5'll get you 10!

See, even though the dates aren't exactly correct, we're celebrating the 5th anniversary of our marriage in Toronto (2003) and the 10th anniversary of moving into our house here (1999).

Not only that -- let's work in E2's Tenth Anniversary as well!

And more -- October 17th is the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, which I remember well!

So ... we want to celebrate with…

Polpette with Tomato Coulis (recipe)

2009-04-10T04:05:00Z

If you've read some of my other recipe writeups here (and you have read them, haven't you?), then you might get the idea I like to cook. Hell, I'd spend more of my time cooking if I had it to spend, but I don't. What I do have, in my partner Tom, is a very appreciative audience. He's always willing to sample the results of my culinary experiments, of which this was one .So I'm always interested in recipes that produce delicious results, but don't take all day in the preparation.

With all that in mind, I give you Polpette with Tomato Coulis!

Now, I know that properly, a coulis is a fruit sauce. However, since the tomato is, by strict definition, a fruit, I think I can safely get away with calling this sauce a coulis. So read through this recipe, assemble your ingredients, and let's get to work!

THE COULIS

4 cups (1 L) finely-chopped

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US Highway 630 (thing)

2009-02-24T04:24:31Z

US Highway 630 was the sixth "child route" of the transcontinental US Highway 30 and was commissioned in 1927. At that time, it was the shortest US highway in the system, coming in at only a mere three miles in length. It was apparently designed to serve as a connector between US 30 in Oregon and US 95 in Idaho.

The route began at a junction with US 30, some fifteen miles north of Ontario, Oregon. There, as US 30 turned westward, US 630 continued north and crossed the Snake River into Idaho, and ended at a junction with what was then the south beginning of US 95 in Weiser.

The US 630 designation lasted only six years; by 1933 it had been decommissioned, though maps from the era don't indicate whether its routing was taken over by US 95, or by US 30N, a then-existing spur of US 30. Today, the highway still serves as a connector, to Interstate 84, and carries the designation of Spur US 95.

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