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May 3 2012

Sweet tea

by Mary Anne

One of the things that I find interesting about living in this area is that when I go into a restaurant and order “tea” that if I don’t specifically say that I want “hot tea” that they will bring me ice tea. I don’t understand why the wait staff does not ask for clarification on that. Seems to me that if it is early in the day, say before 10am or so, that a person that orders tea would probably be more interested in hot tea than in ice tea.

Not long ago a friend of mine was going to McDonald’s for lunch and asked me if I wanted anything. She told me that they sell large “sweet tea” for one dollar. So I said, sure, I’d like that, and I gave her a dollar ten (the extra ten for tax) and when she came back with my large cup of sweetened ice tea I was quite surprised exactly how yummy that was! Whenever I order sweet ice tea anywhere else it just is not as yummy. Even if I add tons of sugar, it just is not as yummy. I wish I knew exactly how they made it; I’d try to duplicate it at home! And I wish that they had it available in a sugar-substitute form so that it was zero calorie. I’m sure I could drink a lot of this stuff, but I hate to think of the weight I’ll gain if I do!

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Apr 24 2012

Working the room

by Mary Anne

As we walked through the building, Tim introduced me to some of his business associates, and we wandered over to the tables full of food and beverages. I recognized the serving ware from the last social networking event we had gone to and I mentioned to Tim that it was the same stuff as before. He said that the organization supplied that kind of items to the events, that they could get them wholesale through a Hotel Product Supplies & Catering Supplies company’s website.

Well, ever since I worked for a Hotel Bathroom Supplies & Restaurant Supply Company myself back in 1972 and 1973 I have had an interest in where people can go to get those types of supplies at a wholesale price. The place that I worked at did not advertise that they would sell their products to walk-in customers, but people walked in just the same and bought things from the company.

I decided to try to look up the company I used to work for on the Internet, and I couldn’t find them online. I wonder if they’ve gone out of business! I did, however find the website of the PeachSuite Wholesale Hotel Supply & Restaurant Equipment Company and found myself spending quite a long time looking at the different flatware and stemware and thinking about how even after all of these years I am still using the same flatware that I bought back in 1972 from the company that I worked for. I’d say that was a good investment, wouldn’t you agree?

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Apr 23 2012

Networking

by Mary Anne

Last week I was invited to attend a networking social event with Tim. The event was being held at the local Boys & Girls Club, and I agreed to go with Tim because I had never been in that building since it opened for business about three years ago. I was really interested in checking it out, just out of curiosity. And Tim told me that there would be free food and drinks, so I was all for going! I mean, how could you beat the chance to check out a place you’ve been wanting to check out and getting a free meal to boot!

So Tim picked me up at the appointed hour and drove me to the club. When we first walked in the door, there were four greeters there, introducing themselves with a smile and a handshake. One person was selling tickets to a 50/50 raffle, and another was collecting business cards for a prize drawing that was going to be held a little later. At first I felt a little bit awkward, but it wasn’t long before I recognized a few people that I had met before and I went over and chatted with them for a little while.

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Apr 22 2012

Hostgator joomla

by Mary Anne

Picking a web hosting company when you are using joomla CMS is not as difficult as you might think it could be. I have been reading a little bit about joomla, and have been trying to decide if I want to use joomla in the future, or stick with WordPress. One of the things to consider when making a decision like that is which hosting company supports joomla. According to the joomla website, the hostgator joomla web hosting service appears to be the most reasonably priced service.

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Mar 5 2012

White chocolate raspberry cheesecake frozen yogurt

by Mary Anne

Many years ago there was a frozen yogurt shoppe a couple of blocks away from where I worked. Every day they would have a different flavor featured. The ladies that I worked with would call the shoppe a few minutes before our lunch break and ask the shoppe what the flavor of the day was. They had a flavor that was simply the most amazing flavor I have ever tasted in my life – it was white chocolate raspberry cheese cake frozen yogurt.

The first time I tasted that flavor I thought I had died and gone to heaven! It was simply the best tasting frozen yogurt OR ice cream that I have ever tasted in my life. Every time that we found out that they had that flavor on special I would order it. It was NOT available as a regular flavor on a daily basis. That is probably a good thing because I probably would have eaten way too much of it! Sadly that frozen yogurt shoppe was only in business for a couple of years before it relocated to a different town. I sure miss that place!

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