The Run-away God

When gods start running away from home, it's time to head for the hills.

It's astonishing how quickly Monday mornings stack up, and how slowly and painfully Friday afternoons inch their way into the light of existence.

We're all doomed anyway; the universe will most likely die in a few billion years, so it's best to start enjoying life.

Here, from Family Fun, is something you don't see every day--a pound cake and chocolate worked up into the shape of an excavator.  It looks good--there's a recipe if you want to try it.

And here, from BBC, is a video of an actual boat made out of chocolate.  The 3.5-meter boat was made by French chocolatier George Lamicol.

And now for something completely different--here is the website of the National Demolition Association, home to more than 1,000 U.S. and Canadian companies offering demolition services. If you want to learn about demolition, this is a good starting point.

Don't forget the association's annual convention coming up March 5-8, at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Here are some photos of demolition excavators and other fascinating machines that Caterpillar showed at last year's convention. I want them all!

No worries.

McBowel's Funtime Meal with Happy Axe

It's a healthy meal because it comes with a lettuce leaf, which qualifies as a salad (if you eat it), and besides, tomato ketchup has tomatoes in it.

During the night, while I was sleeping, time moved ahead for everyone else and left me behind, so when I woke up, I was an hour behind.

That's the only explanation I can think of for the world inexplicably being an hour ahead of me. Come back, world!

Here is a chocolate clock, meaning it dispenses chocolate instead of cuckoo birds on the hour. Choco, choco, choco. I wonder if you get twelve chocolates at 12 o'clock.

Here is a boat made out of chocolate. This proves you can do almost anything you want to do, if you set your mind to it, and hire a good chocolatier.

More importantly, here, from a company called Rock and Dirt,  is a picture of a large grinder for grinding large things, or large amounts of things. This place is Valhalla for anyone who likes heavy machinery; it features dozens of pictures and specs on every item, and you can buy or lease.

So much happiness in one compressed morning.

I'll be back....