Posts by Jonah

I am Berck's wife. I must use whichever journaling software he chooses. And like it.

My baby’s gone again.


by Jonah

Berck’s dad arrived last night. We had Berck’s pot roast and my bread and pie. I tried a new recipe that turned out really well. Berck complains whenever I make a dessert that isn’t chocolate, and he loves meringue, so I found a chocolate meringue pie recipe. It’s a keeper.

Berck and his dad left this morning. They’re driving to Phoenix to pick up a U-Haul trailer, then picking up Jim’s stuff in California, and then driving it to Nashville. It was $200 to trailer from Phoenix to Nashville, as opposed to $800 from California to Nashville. I guess everyone is leaving California. Berck will fly back on Monday next week.

I got to bed rather late last night with all the festivities. We finished inventory last week with a perfect audit, which made my boss extremely happy. But it was a long week. I had eight and a half hours of overtime. Since we were too busy counting to send out any product last week, this week our orders are doubled. I worked today until 5:30 (I’m supposed to get off at 3:30). I was beat. But I came home and took a nice warm bath, and all was right with the world again.

I’m still very tired, though. So I’m going to go to sleep.

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Stuffed Pizza Night


by Jonah

Berck was practicing flying in the dark tonight, so I made pizza. I tried something new… Chicago style stuffed pizza. And it was really good! Even if I did forget to put the salt and the garlic and the pizza spices in. I made it in our cast iron frying pan.

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Actual Fact: Reg Presley, the lead singer for The Troggs on their five million selling, 1966 hit “Wild Thing”, went on to become one of Britain’s premier UFO experts.

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Etymology


by Jonah

The word “revamp” means

To patch up or restore; renovate.
To revise or reconstruct.

So so if revamp means to patch up, what does the word “vamp” mean?

To patch up (something old); refurbish.
To put together; fabricate or improvise.
Music. To improvise (an accompaniment, for example) for a solo.

So basically vamp and revamp mean the same thing. Like flammable and inflammable. Except maybe revamp means more to patch up again.

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Actual Fact:

Leon Theremin, inventor of the Theremin, an electronic instrument you play without touching anything but the air around it (featured in the Beach Boy’s “Good Vibrations”), was convinced to the day he died that he could build a machine that would bring the dead back to life. He was still pursuing funding for this project up into his 90s.

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