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Recipe Time

At the Bogie household, we eat Mexican-type food a couple times a week. Sometimes though, I get tired of making the same old tacos, burritos and enchiladas so make time to make a hearty Taco Lasagna. It is a bit time consuming (to those of us that don't like to cook anyway), but makes at least 8 large servings and provides us with lots of leftovers for lunch and another supper.

2 pounds ground beef
2 pkgs taco seasoning (my personal favorite is made by McCormick)
4 cloves pressed garlic (optional)
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 1 1/2 Cups water
1 TBSP cornmeal
2 pkgs corn tortillas (10-12 per package)
1 - 24 oz jar salsa
1 Cup sliced onions (optional)
16 oz sour cream mixed with 1 TBSP chili powder
3 Cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
3 Cups shredded Chedder cheese

Just Because

I have found several fascinating posts this last week, so will provide linkage to them:

Greg (My Life as a Fischer) has a picture of a lean, mean fighting machine (it's not what you are probably thinking).

Da Goddes shows us what traffic snarls can look like where she lives.

Ravenwood has found where the fastest, street-legal car is being driven.

Fred has trouble remembering where he took this picture.

Speaking of pictures, Drumwaster has gotten some pictures of a nicely wrapped vehicle (go to the comments and follow the links for more pics).

The Weekend Pundit will be covering the New Hampshire Primaries.

Sugarmama is investing for her future.

Of course there is plenty more good stuff on my blogrolls, these just happen to be things that really caught my eye.

Beam Me Up COTV

This week's Carnival of the Vanities is over at PoliBlog. Hey, he even manages to make a contest out of the (original) Star Trek theme!

As usual, Da Goddess had to tell me where to go.

Get Off

If there is one problem that most of our dogs have had, it is getting on the couch. We do not allow the dogs on any furniture; couches, chairs or beds. That is not quite true - only one dog, our dobie, was allowed on the furniture. that is because we got her late in life (she was about 8 years old) and she was only allowed on her loveseat. She stayed off the couch, and if needed, would share her loveseat (but never give it up). Dogs that we have had since then, are not allowed on any furniture.

FYI

I have disabled the Comments section because of some heavy spam that I have been getting today. The Comments section will be opened up in a day or two, after this has settled down.

UPDATE: I have re-opened comments to see if the Blam (Blog spam) has calmed down. Hopefully it has (or at least my banning several IPs has helped) and we can return to business as usual.

Busy Work

Bad me, I didn't post anything yesterday. That was because I was too busy to bother even doing more than getting my email (okay, yes, I did visit a couple of places - but for the most part I didn't do any recreational computer work). "How busy can an unemployed person?" be you ask (and thank you for asking, you create a nice lead-in).

Moving on Up

Parkway Rest Stop has moved. I think he was the last hold out on BlogSpot, but finally gotten too disgusted to hang in there any longer!

Make sure to adjust your bookmarks, links or whatever.

Job Hunt

I found the perfect job - for a Documentation Specialist. It entails everything that I did at my previous, previous place of employment. Unfortunately, it is also 65 miles away. I put in my resume this morning. If the place is right (and compensation is reasonable), I would travel that far. If I am offered the position, and take the job, that would mean the end to my pet-sitting as the travel time would be prohibitive (not to mention my employment would be in the opposite direction of most of my customers). Actually, I could still pet-sit during the weekends, but that would severely curtail my usefullness to my customers!

I am also mailing in my resume to a doggie day-care that needs an Administrative Assistant. I actually interviewed for that very job before I was hired at my last place of employment. I never heard back from them though since they hired someone else. The downside to that job is that I would (probably) take a huge hit in pay. But, I would get to work around dogs all day, so I think I would enjoy it.

Win XP

For the last couple of days, I have been thinking how much I like Windows XP (all you Linux heads out there shush). I have had XP for almost a year (since last February) and have never had a systems crash. Everything has worked flawlessly - and maintenance is effortless since it warns me when critical updates are available.

For the last couple of days, I have also been worried about Essay Canajun since she hasn't posted for a while.

Good News

Hope made it through her surgery okay and is now at home recuperating!