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Does anyone know of a way I can have mail forwarded from my Yahoo account to another one (without having to pay money)?

forced relaxation

I'm not feeling much better than I did yesterday. My throat is still bothering me, and I still feel weak. Cindy just left to go see Joe Bonamossa at Summerfest. He was pretty high on my list of people to see this year. I hope I'm up to going tomorrow to see American Standard and maybe Midnight Oil.

Today I:
LiveJournaled
watered my houseplants
took a shower
ate food
read more of Fellowship of the Ring
played computer soliaire and Mah Jong
watered my flowers

That's about it. That's not really much, but then I haven't even been up for eight hours. I didn't get out of bed until 11:00. This was one of those totally relaxing days I can usually only dream about. I wish I'd had just a little more energy, so I would have had a better pick of relaxing things to do, but oh well. Reading was the best part. I got two more chapters read. That leaves two, and I'll be done. I might even get The Two Towers read before the movie comes out.

My tasks for the rest of the night are to take the laundy in off the line, and water the flowers in back. I might read some more or watch a movie. Or both.

Update:
I watered more flowers, took some clothes off the line, and got some custard. Then I spent the next hour and a half online.

frozen custard

Do you have custard stands where you are? Probably not. I wouldn't have been surprised to find that they were strictly midwestern, but they don't seem to have any in Minneapolis. I've never even seen any in Chicago. Everybody loves to go down and get a huge cone of frozen custard. All the stands follow the same pattern: chocolate and vanilla, with one additional flavor of the day. Most places have several dozen flavors they offer on a rotating basis. Every flavor you can imagine and then some. Butter pecan, chocolate raspberry, peanut butter cup, toffee crunch, seven C's, pumpkin pie (on Thanksgiving), you name it. Most of these places do burgers too, and they're usually big ones. Maybe that's why Wisconsinites are so fat...

I just found a place called Custardlist.com. They have a comprehensive listing of all the custard stands in the country (who care to list). They show stands in twenty states. Aside from Culver's (a regional chain of fast food restaurants) no state has more than four custard places - except Wisconsin, which has fifty-three. Kopp's, Kitt's, Oscar's, Leon's (notice a pattern to the names?), Gille's...

One of our biggest local dealers is Kopp's. Notice they ship. ;-) My favorite (and where I just went for a chocolate cone) is Hefner's.