So far, in the month of December, 55 people have accessed my site via google searches using phrases (more than one word).  Now that I think of it, I posted on my ability to track these occurrences in this post a while back.  Anyway, of these 55 searches, 20 of them were eggnog-related; everything from [...]

I was out getting coffee for my boss and myself this morning (which meant Starbucks, not the Mud Truck) and as I regurgitated my boss’ order, I spied an interesting item on the menu, the Orange Mocha. Apparently, they’ve been advertising the heck out of it, but the beauty of being an oblivious idiot [...]

When I returned to Valatie yesterday I was greeted with a disturbing sight as I crested the hill by the hardware store and rounded the corner on Rt. 9, heading toward my neighborhood.
The Grand Union, a mainstay of Valatie grocery needs since the 70s (and possibly before) was closed down, empty, vacant. Gone was the [...]

Quarts: 15 (final)
Quart breakdown:

1 Stewarts brand
1 Horizon Organic brand
1 Southern Comfort brand (no hooch in it, they make you buy that crap separately)
1 Hood brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Hannaford brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Turkey Hill brand (my favorite!)
1 quart of Organic Valley Eggnog (which a co-worker raised on a farm laughed at)
2 quarts of Hood [...]

Quarts: 9
Quart breakdown:

1 Stewarts brand
1 Horizon Organic brand
1 Southern Comfort brand (no hooch in it, they make you buy that crap separately)
1 Hood brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Hannaford brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Turkey Hill brand (my favorite!)
1 quart of Organic Valley Eggnog (which a co-worker raised on a farm laughed at)

Also, I have in my [...]

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I’m trying to figure out why this is far and away my most viewed photo on flickr. I mean, I’ve got much better photos on there, technically and thematically.
Maybe there is a society of people devoted to images of Rt. 28 in upstate NY, and they’ve been passing this thing around [...]

No more word count, just nog.

Quarts: 8
Quart breakdown:

1 Stewarts brand
1 Horizon Organic brand
1 Southern Comfort brand (no hooch in it, they make you buy that crap separately)
1 Hood brand

2 quarts (half gallon) Hannaford brand

2 quarts (half gallon) Turkey Hill brand (my favorite!)

It pains me as I write this, but last Sunday I gave up the novel. This makes it two years in a row that I wasn’t able to bring home the bacon. Two years of failure. Two years of half finished pieces of crap taking up space on my hard drive, never to [...]

Okay, not as far along with the novel as I thought I’d be.
Words: 13,520
Quarts: 3

Quart breakdown:

1 Stewarts brand
1 Horizon Organic brand
1 Southern Comfort brand (no hooch in it, they make you buy that crap separately)

November is a month for measurement. Last Thursday, in a little convenience store in Valatie, I found the first eggnog of the season. One hour later, quart number one was resting comfortably in my belly. Ahh, this is the time of year that I wait for… The air is getting cold, [...]