Deep Fried Mars Bar email

Into each life, a little saturated fat must fall.  You have been carefully selected as possibly being the kind of wild and crazy (redacted company name) employee who might want to eat a deep fried Mars bar.  Our talented chef Chris has agreed — with some misgivings — to deep fry Mars bars for us, but only if at least ten people sign up.   As this is a rare culinary delight, I urge you to vote Yes, Please!    Please be advised that they are almost impossible to finish, so consider sharing it with somebody.  Please be further advised that in the tradition of Scottish cuisine (almost a contradiction in terms), you order it with a side of fries.  Your best bet is to plan on eating nothing else that day, and possibly not for 24 hours on either side.  I’m going to draw the line at requesting a doctor’s note, though.  Please be further, further advised that costs will be announced when we have enough people signed up.  Please be further, further, further advised that my distribution list may have missed people who have been dying (possibly literally) to eat a deep fried Mars bar, and that no ill-will is intended if you were forwarded this by someone other than Allegra.

Sundry images

yvonnes-quilt.jpg

This is a quilt one of my coworkers, Yvonne, made.  All the women in CS got one.  I am an extremely sentimental person, in a gruff, cheesy kind of way, and it makes me sniff when I think about how wonderful my coworkers are.

the-house-where-i-grew-up.jpg

This is a picture of the house where I grew up in Ottawa.  There is now a coster blue spruce out front that’s four stories tall…

moon-over-kitsilano.jpg

The moon from the second last time I was at Jericho.  I think I posted something similar earlier, but I just love the feel of it.  And I wish the city wasn’t always lit with sodium vapour lights….

my-desk.jpg

My desk, with my Jayne hat (wot nautilus3 knitted for me).

Tapioca

I made some.  This time I soaked the pearls overnight and it is NOM NOM NOM NOM.  (Milk, sugar, tapioca pearls, vanilla, fresh ground cardamom, cinnamon, almond flavouring.)  Hm.  Maybe some salt?