Am I blue?

This is fun...I was sort of hoping I'd be a more interesting shade, but at least I'm not orange (which is an unfavourite of mine). Question: isn't it spelled 'spontaneous'? If so, the spellchecker doesn't do html.

You are most like: You are Blue
You are cool and soothing, with a hidden spontanious side. You are deeper than most people percieve, and you care a lot for those whom you surround yourself with.
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What I'm up to lately

I had a couple of days off due to some minor surgery, so I'm now finally finishing the dvd of the Kauffeldt reunion from this summer. Yahoo! It's so nice to get some projects finished, and others started.
One of my big winter projects is, as I've mentioned before, to move vinyl to digital, via the nice turntable Iain gave me at Christmas. I've only done a few songs as yet, but transferring all of the Paranoid album was very satisfying, for a start. Also a bit of Nik Kershaw (The Riddle) and The Friends of Mr. Cairo are done, but that's it - I've got a lot of work to do. It's all fun, though. Iain has fun with it too, mostly chuckling over my choices of music. To each his own!

Are you looking at me?

Sometimes, no matter how innocent you are, you will end up on somebody's hate list anyway. This happened to me yesterday at work, when a woman who'd had a discussion on the phone with another employee - and taken offense, mainly because she was wrong and didn't want to hear it - showed up at our office. I saw her, through the glass that fronts my work area, and she was looking at me with such dislike that if we were cartoon characters I'd have been impaled by the darts.
I was a little confused by this, because I had no idea who she was, or why she was there, but decided it best to avoid eye-contact with her from then on. When I talked to my co-workers about it later, we deduced she was suffering from mistaken identity and thought, for some reason, that I was the culprit who'd spoken to her on the phone originally. Unless she was just angry at everyone in the office, and I was a bit more sensitive to it because it caught me by surprise. Anyway, it was an interesting way to end the week (it's like people with attitude have to show up just before 5:00 on Friday).
When I related the story to Iain, later, his suggestion was that I could have given her a big, cheery wave 'hello', and a huge grin, but, as I explained to him, we are not allowed to taunt the patients, no matter how ugly they are.
In other news, a note on Virgil's Sodas. Iain has some spare time, now that he's an unemployed person, so he dropped a line to Farmboy to find out why there was so little of the bottled joy left on the shelf when we were at the Kanata store last. Turns out they only get it in seasonally or randomly, and it's best to phone ahead to see if it is available. So I can't promise you'll find it in any of their stores, but it is definitely worth the effort to look for it, trust me!

Bottled joy

One of the small pleasures of a trip into Ottawa from the wilds of Renfrew is the stop for groceries at the FarmBoy in Kanata. The fresh meats and choice fruits and vegetables, and the nice choice of cheeses and other deli goodies, make it well worth the time. Our most pleasant recent discovery there is Virgil's Cream Soda and Root Beer. Excellent beverages, the beautiful smooth taste of which my mere words cannot embrace. Do try them.

If you can't tell, i just finished a bottle of the wonderful Cream Soda, and am still in its thrall. I could drink another right now!

The Duck!

I was looking at the pictures I took at our office party/dinner just now, and it reminded me to recommend (highly) The Duck restaurant in Calabogie. Excellent food and service. The table was lovely - take a look.
Their specialty is, not surprisingly, duck, and that is what I had. Not being a person of large appetite, I had to refrain from eating as many of the appetizers as I would have liked. For dessert, we were each brought a sampler plate with all sorts of goodies: custard, chocolate mousse, a warm crepe wrapped around icecream and drizzled with sauce (it is now a couple of weeks later and I can't remember for certain, but I think there was chocolate, strawberry, and possibly maple?).
I really enjoy a good meal, and our bosses are the best guys to take us out to nice places to eat.