Tom and I had a great time cooking, eating, and socializing today with Rhonda, Lindsey, and Timothy. (Debby wasn’t able to join, so Jack and even Delta hung out with her and Stewie for a bit, and we sent her a plate of goodies and dessert.) Lots of cooking happened, like some Millennium Falcon waffles from Tom.
Pretty sure Pepper was hoping for a handout.
We also had pancakes from Rhonda and a quiche from Lindsey. I baked Jim’s popular egg casserole, and we had lots of fresh fruit and bacon. It was good to be together and catch up, because it’s been way too long.
Also, we were celebrating Lindsey’s birthday, so of course there was cake!
She got the unicorn decoration to keep. I didn’t want any chocolate frosting staining those hooves, and if you’ve been around a while, you might recognize the unicorn’s “platform” from several stories about the lime slice coasters through the years.
The waffle, the pancake and the birthday cake: I thought the coaster saga was long gone!
You never know when these coasters will turn up. =)
Pancakes? How nice!
Millennium Falcon Waffle? Extraordinary!
Chocolate cake with a Unicorn dancing on a lime coaster? Priceless.
If you were close enough, we’d invite you for brunch!
Sweet! I wish I had a gang of friends like you guys to celebrate, create and hang out with.
Several of the most important relationships in my life had their genesis on the Internet (as you may recall, Tim, Timmy, Jim, and I met in the same AOL chatroom in 1997, which is also where we met Rhonda, who just happened to live in Houston), and YET: like many other relationships, these have been impacted by how our online time has evolved.
From a sociological perspective, there’s a lot to process about that.
I think, like most things, the internet is a double-edged sword. It makes communication far easier, yet it also makes disconnection far, far easier. Websites and apps for the gay ‘community’ (how I loathe that term) have resulted in the closure of so many LGBT venues. The internet has opened-up the world, yet closed it down.
I agree. Maybe it’s like any “new” thing, and it takes time to provide perspective on its benefits and harms. I think we’re still figuring out the benefits and disadvantages of easy world travel, for example.
Often, humans are slow learners.
Deffo. I read lots of profiles which offer a figure for the number of countries that person has visited. I’m not sure what a number is meant to convey? I have lived in the UK for over fifty years and I still haven’t experienced the majority of it.