If you don't have a roll-up door, you can always console yourself with this recipe for chocolate almond bark from All Recipes. The ingredients are simple enough that even I can understand them: chocolate chips, chopped almonds, and shortening. It's the middle step, from ingredients to finished product, that always confuses me, whatever the recipe.

Here, from National Geographic,  is a nice photograph of a PC400 excavator hard at work on a demolition site, unloading a bucket of cement rubble. And here, from the same site, is a photo of a set of demolition shear jaws ripping electrical wiring from Busch stadium. This site's home page always has something interesting.

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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!

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