The words "we" and "our" are words that I use often to describe the activities at the restaurant owned by somebody who I have known for 13 years. I am not an owner but I am very much involved in making things happen.
I don't consider myself to be nearly as creative as he is. Most things are his vision and I make sure that his vision ends up on plates for a guests.

Happy new year! I am resting today after spending 12 hours doing something really cool yesterday. We have a lower level of our restaurant that is used occasionally for super exclusive dining. It holds 22 people and last night we did an eight course meal with drink pairings (some non-alcoholic).
You don't know what you're having for dinner until you arrive for your reservation (which has a $100 nonrefundable deposit).
You eat and drink what you are served and there are no options. It is a 2.5 hour service and costs $175 per person.
We do this once a month and we always sell out the day we announce it. We have never had a customer forfeit their deposit by not showing up.

I think that before he is done Donald Trump will contest the constitutionality of his inability to pardon people convicted at the state level. I think he would win that battle in the (his) Supreme Court.

When I want to see someone who can change my life I look in the mirror.

Do you make New Year's resolutions?
I never have but it was July when I quit drinking 13 years ago in September when I quit smoking 14 years ago.
When you have a habit that you need to ditch it doesn't matter what time of the year it is but you do have to want to do it and not because somebody is telling you should make a change in your life.

You would have to buy a bigger mattress to put your money under phart! 😄

I'm sure somebody could get by on this.

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That sounds like a lot of work!
I know that after dinner the cleanup is huge but once they're in your house you have many volunteers and of course many hands make light work.

The gravy would be used for the turkey and/or mashed potatoes so if it is too salty just tell people not to put salt on their turkey or mashed potatoes.
Another thing to do would be to add some wine or water to water it down. If it becomes too thin a little bit of cornstarch and water will thicken it back up.

My Golden rule of spicing anything has always been that you can always add more but you can never take it back.
As an aside, the same rule applies to anger.

I had Christmas dinner with seven people that call me uncle. It was an awesome time When cleanup time came somebody said to make sure that the dog doesn't get the carcass in the garbage. That's what I stepped in to help.
I brought it home (the turkey not the dog!) and it is in my fridge now and tomorrow it will be turkey stew.
I told my niece that I will take her lunch to work one day next week.

I hope everyone had a great day.

58.5M. I would fix the road that you live on if I won that! 😘

My best friend Google knows everything!

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"Sausage". 🤢

In Canada the Lotto Max jackpot is $80 million (tax-free) for tomorrow's draw and that is the maximum it ever gets. After the $80 million they do a thing called Max millions. Tomorrow night there are also 46 separate $1 million dollar draws.
Of course the winner of the Powerball has the option of taking 29 equal payments but they never choose that. I suppose that when you get to a certain age 29 equal payments might outlast your life.
If you win$820 million and I suppose about half of that will go to tax which pockets you $410 million. I could get by on that.
What government takes half of it; is it state or federal?

For a time during World War II the maternity ward of the
Ottawa Hospital was declared Dutch territory so that
princess Marguerite could be completely a Dutch citizen.
This has led to Holland sending thousands of tulips to
Ottawa every year for the tulip festival.

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Lame Donald Duck

I just heard somebody referred to him as a lame duck president and thought that was a good name for him.

I wonder when Donald Trump will adopt a military uniform
for his official look. I think it is inevitable.

How to overthrow a dictatorship (in case you need to know later).

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I doubt he can come up with $4 million for his bail.

Of course there was a real classy response from Donald Trump.

Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered by their son. WTF

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How long were you wishing that you could do that before you actually did?

I met a guy one time who wanted to suck a cock for 20 years and then he met me.

If I was on my way home that means that I have been to where I wanted to go and seen the people that I wanted to see.

Think of the two space shuttles that exploded. One was on the way to space and one was on the way home from space. I would rather be on the one going home.

"Because of the tariffs we have taken an $18 trillion in 10 months."
-Donald Trump December 14

In 2023 the US imported around $4 trillion worth of goods.
According to Canadian math that is about 450% tariffs on
every single thing that comes into the United States.
I know the MAGA crowd loves him but math is not his strong suit.

If I were to die in an airplane crash I hope it would be on my way home!

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Like I said, the kids will probably find a workaround. I just wonder how long it will take for about 50% of the kids to be back online. Maybe they'll learn how to do crazy things like have conversations and maybe their neck will not hurt as much from constantly looking down. Maybe but I honestly think probably not but it's better than doing nothing.

So we should let kids drive, smoke, drink and vote when they're seven years old? Get that government out of there.

Start small.

This is more than any country in the world has done for the safety of children on social media and yet here you are shitting on it.
Besides children, the people who really don't like this would be ped0ph1les and perverts.

Is it better than doing nothing?

Effective today any child under the age of 16 in Australia is not allowed to be on social media sites. The ones in question are Instagram, Facebook, threads, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, Kik, Reddit, twitch and X.

Of course it won't be 100% effective but damn it's a good idea and you have to rip the Band-Aid off somewhere.
I just wonder how long it will take the kids will find a workaround.

I agree. I think I have three or four photos in my profile that were enhanced or created for me by Vita and moeJoe and in all of them I credited them for their artwork. I have never posted an Internet photo that I alleged to be me or my friends. I just don't think this is the place for it. Maybe I'm just a purist (without really awesome Photoshopping skills).

I think that there should be zero tolerance for Internet or AI photos or videos for free theme image contests. If I saw one that was obviously not the contestant I would ask the creator of the contest to consider this for deletion from his or her contest.

I would need a roommate.

Did you see Donald Trump and Soran Mamdani making out in the oval office today?

The drainer has become the swamp.

"What happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene? Did she get
bitten by Rachel Maddow?"

-The Daily Show

Canadians spent a lot of money this year travelling around Canada and Europe. Check this out:

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So let me see if I have this Trump economics plan straight.

-Trump promises to lower grocery prices "on day one".
-Tariffs do not cause food prices to rise.
-When tariffs went on the food items the price rose.
-Tariffs are now coming off some food items in order to lower prices.

Conclusion: Donald Trump finally got it through his thick head that when the cost to the importer goes up, the cost to the consumer goes up.

Did grandpa work in a copper mine?

They are not minted anymore but if you
are looking for one…

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Next step, the one dollar coin.

"Cucumbers are so expensive now that women are having sex with their husbands."

-Bill Maher

Well if America would just grow coffee and bananas in North Dakota you can supply your own.

It's a fact in every American knows it including you. Tariffs are taxes on the consumers of America and because of that prices are going up.

TACO

It's TACO time.... again.

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