2013/04/14
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Mont Royal (Mount Royal) – 2005.04.17Scènes de Montréal – Montreal Scenes 
Needles
Something tells me that China is about to experiment an acupuncture job on this wacko if he doesn’t cool off.
Caption: The North Korean Frog
Cartoon © Bado, Le Droit
Failing technology
I was about to start preparing my income tax returns on Friday afternoon when my video card decided it didn’t love me anymore. I went to a computer store but they didn’t have in stock the one I needed and they didn’t expect any before Wednesday. They did have a better one going for only 5$ more so, since I do need this computer, I went for it. The card works but not its drivers, which make the computer hang (bluescreen) on boot. So I have an image, but not of the resolution I want. Furthermore I have no sound. I’ve spent a lot of time on this since Friday and am a little fed up. I hate returning the card since it’s not in fault per se. It’s rather Windows and my computer which is not recent enough for that type of card. Friend may come to help me with this one. From what I gathered from the Tangled, this card is tailored for home movie purposes, thus its HDMI sound output, which may be at the source of all those conflicts. I can live with no sound for a few days, but not forever…
The use of the plural for the income tax returns is not a typo. In Québec we produce two returns, one federal, one provincial. We don’t pay double for federal activities which have been transfered to Québec. Once our federal return is complete, we then deduct 16,5% of the federal income tax due, for this purpose.
Da Food Section
Finally, I will post a pic of that lasagna which I had last week, if only to remind me never to buy again those thin and supposedly not requiring any pre-cooking lasagna pastas. I don’t remember if the first serving had more tonus to it, but this second re-heated one was all sagging on itself, due essentially to the thinness of the pasta.
Then again, maybe the lasagna simply got scared when it saw the witch on the front page of my daily.
If you think that the white wine looks a lot like water, you are a bright number since it IS water. It’s what you can call collaterals.
Comments (4)
I had to look up “grenouille.” One of Edward Gorey’s books features an inn and boarding-house called “Le crapaud bleu,” so I only knew that word for “frog.” “Crapaud” sounds more suitable for Kim.
When my mother would make lasagna I would help assemble it, putting all the layers together. It would take forever to cook and I’d be starved but it was worth the wait.
I wonder what the lasagna would do if Reagan was on the front page. 
Home made Lasagne are the best, but you have to have the right flower to have good pasta. it takes some work: make the sauces, but the result is so much better. The best I ever had was in the Italian Adriatic sea , not far from Emilia-Romagna (Bologna) were the lasagne originated.
Precooked are not that good, but sometimes we have to do with less.The spell- check reminds me to correct Lasagne in Lasagna, but i do use the plural for Lasagne, the same when I say Tagliatelle, tortellini: all plurial.
Pollo alla Cacciatora in stead of Cacciatore. (A la façon de…..)
Globalization is confusing.
Difficult to keep up with changes, specially when I don’t want to change , but i have to.
J ‘ admire la façon dont tu te débrouilles avec ton ordinateur . Je ne connais rien à cette machine . Je me souviens d ‘ avoir dû changer une carte video . – Cela a été fait par un spécialiste . Compliments .
L’ eau ! Hélas , moi aussi je dois en boire un litre par jour pour soulager les reins ! Ta lasagne doit avoir bon goût . A première vue je croyais que c’ était une tranche de cake ( au sens français du mot )
Amitiés,
Michel