Ruby chocolate is naturally pink-colored, and about the texture of white chocolate. It has a gentle, slightly fruity flavor and aroma.
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I woke up on Monday with pains on both sides of my back, and since I've been fighting off a UTI for a couple of weeks, I figured I had kidney stones. I went to the ER in New York City again, and they did blood work, a urine test, an ultrasound, and a few other things, and determined that I did not have a UTI, nor did I have any kidney stones. I ( Read more... )

Since the quarantine began, I have been trying to find (or think of) bits of song or poetry that take 20 seconds to utter, used as a way to tell whether you've washed your hands for long enough. For a long time I was using "Today's The Day The Teddy Bears Worship Cthulhu", but I finally got bored with it. So I've come up with a more appropriate ( Read more... )

Phil Spector, the producer of a lot of well-known pop hits, died of COVID while serving jail time for murder. He was known for his "Wall of Sound" technique, which used a lot of overdubbing to make a densely textured sound that would get people's attention. It would punch right through the road noise when you heard it on the AM radio in a car. ( Read more... )

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I'm having Thankgsgiving dinner with my son and his wife. He gets tested for COVID several times a day at his job, and his wife doesn't go out much (she has some health issues). I'm bringing my dinner rolls, my world-famous rice stuffing, and a gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie ( Read more... )

Dolly Parton contributed one million dollars to Vanderbilt University, who worked with Moderna to create one of the new (and very promising) vaccines against COVID19. (Apparently she made herself rich and famous so she'd be able to do things like donate money to vaccine research, or to donate children's books to schools and libraries. That's what ( Read more... )

The intense boredom of quarantine is affecting my brain. This bit of fiction just sort of sprang into existence in its entirety, the night before last. So imagine a storyteller... she is an old woman with long bright purple hair, dressed like a hippie, in purple jeans and a tie-dyed t-shirt. She sits down in a comfortable chair, as an audience ( Read more... )

I had Babs Bunny by my side, but they wouldn't allow me to play music on my phone. They kept increasing the power, but they still couldn't get my heart rhythm to stabilize. Now my cardiologist wants to do more tests, and he also brought up the subject of "ablation" - that's a procedure where they use electricity to burn out the conductive pathways ( Read more... )