Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

This was written for another venue but I'm not one to ignore a gauntlet. How to Make Perfect Pizza (and Why You Really Don’t Want to) When I was 24 years old, I made perfect pizza. Pizza: The Americanized version. If you’re Italian, all that follows will be heresy. I’m talking standardized, reproducible, served on an aluminum pan, sitting around the table with a bunch of friends and a pitcher of beer, watching the game on the big screen, pizza. I other words; I had a pizza joint. My journey to perfect pizza began when I was 17 and landed a job as busboy in a local restaurant. Over the next five years, and several locations, I worked my way up from busboy to cook to dough roller to assistant manager to delivery manager. I made manager at the ripe old age of 21when the company I worked for opened a new store in the little town where I had attended high school. It was the nicest restaurant in town. The position also brought with it certain karmic benefits. The small minded losers who

Peace to whoever follows guidance. Ditto.

I scored 90% 54 out of 60. Most of what I got wrong were real D'oh! questions. Jamestown, Federalism, the Monroe Doctrine.

My brisket is snug and dry, thank you very much.

Happy Labor Day!

About 60 bucks. Every Labor Day weekend, my favorite book store has a sale. I was able to show some self control this year. I've learned my lesson. I ain't playin' "mine's bigger than yours" with Tam. I'll keep what pride I still have. But I wanted to show off my recent conquests. The Heinlein and Cherryh are mine. (Alas, no Pratchett. They only had a couple of titles and they were from the middle of a series.) The true crime and Mayan history are for momma. DaughterQuatro bought a diary. (The blue book.) She can't write yet but that won't stop her from filling this book with her hieroglyphes. DaughterTres got a book on codes and cyphers. She wants to be a spy. The Horror Tales was DaughterDos' choice. Of course, SonUno had to break ranks and get a Dragonball video. The real find is on the bottom. Shelby Foote. They didn't have the whole series so I just got volume 1.