When we drove by the first time at about 11 am the lot was empty.  An hour later it was jammed.  That made us decide to try it out.

We ordered a couple of cheese steak wraps, some fries and a couple of sodas, really healthy huh?  While it may not have been health food, it was tasty.  The atmosphere was nice and the waitstaff was friendly.

Anyone want to go back?

love,

mo

I wish I could translate accurately, but  roughly the skit starts with   a french leader telling his troops that they are going to work with the Americans.  By the way, the Americans always look like Rocky Balboa in all the skits at least most of the men do, women and world leaders actually look a little more unique.  In the next scene you are looking at the American line and you see the rebels shooting at the Americans.  Suddenly the Americans are looking for the help they are supposed to get and they see the help coming in the form of the French troops.

I couldn’t help but giggle when the french crab walk which must help them to save on the cost of protective gear.  One of the American soldiers mentions that there is something wrong with their helmets!

Just watch!

It was through signing up with Udacity that I found out about Duck Duck Go which I personally think is pretty cool.  Oh, what is Udacity? It’s a free learning experience which so far is really fascinating.  I signed up and then got a sign in password and once I sign in I get to see the class material, tests, homework- almost everything but any of the other students in the class. It’s all to spread the news that computers aren’t as scary as most of us think.

So far today I learned about the reiterative language of computers.     I learned about expressions and terminals.  I learned about concatenation and also a little bit about the language I’ll be using to create my search engine.  The language is Python.

I also learned what hash tags are good for and I learned that equal doesn’t mean equal in computer language- instead it means ‘assignment’.  Which is a fancy way of saying this whole parcel on this side of the equal sign is identifiable with the information on the other side of the equal sign.

I’m still scared by computers.  I’m hoping that with a little more gentle teaching I’ll be a little less overwhelmed by things like computer languages.  I figured it couldn’t hurt to learn and what else do I have to do?  ( Don’t really ask me that question because I’m afraid there are actually millions of things I have to do!)

Oh, I learned one thing that I thought was pretty cool.  I found out about a young woman named Augusta Ada King, or the Countess of Lovelace.  According to legend, she was one of the first programmers of computers!  Her friend  Charles Babbage had created a machine that was quick at factoring numbers, Ada had the idea that if you carefully defined your outcomes then you could use numbers to represent anything- for example you could create music with computers.

Pretty sharp!

Wish me luck with my new class!

love,

mo

Today I tried to get a new hubcap for one of my cars.  NO LUCK, but I will recommend the place that we stopped at in case any one else in the area needs a hubcap.

Go to Benny’s on 422.  They advertise the sale of batteries for cars, and cellphones and games.  But they also have hubcaps!

And since they didn’t have the part that matched my car, if you know of any other places that sell them, let me know!

love,

mo

He was recorded telling a group that the Dutch had to wear bracelets so as not to get killed by their doctors!  He was saying that old and sick people in the Netherlands were likely to get euthanized involuntarily!

Here is a bit of the story from the NYT-

But his claims about the Netherlands were posted on YouTube by Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way. That video showed Mr. Santorum claiming that elderly Dutch people wear a bracelet reading “Do not euthanize me.” Over audible gasps from the audience, he continued:

Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year — and it’s 10 percent of all deaths for the Netherlands — half of those people are euthanized involuntarily, at hospitals, because they are older and sick. And so elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital, they go to another country, because they’re afraid because of budget purposes that they will not come out of that hospital if they go into it with sickness.

As Buzzfeed noted, Dutch journalists found it easy to refute Mr. Santorum’s statistics, and made fun of his “fact-free” claim that euthanasia was forced on anyone, but they had no idea where he got the idea that the nation’s elderly wear “Do not euthanize me” bracelets.

Ms. Bundy, the embassy spokeswoman, told The Washington Post, “According to the Ministry of Health, ‘Do not euthanize me’ bracelets do not exist in the Netherlands.”

Mr. Santorum’s campaign did not respond to a request to explain who or what the candidate’s sources were.

Keep it up Rick!

love,

mo

It seems that our State Supreme Court has decided that it’s not necessarily true that a parent who acts as the child’s parent, boy this is going to get messy isn’t it?  What I mean to say is that a guardian who is not the biological parent may have no further responsiblity toward the child if a divorce occurs.

There was a situation that the courts are considering that would simply accept that a child was the responsiblity of a parent if they held the child out as their own.  This all came from a case in which a woman had an affair and her husband didn’t divorce her over the affair, but raised the child born as a result of the affair as if it was his own.  Then when their marriage fell apart she sued him for child support.  The court decided that her request was reasonable due to something called parent estoppel, which meant that if you act like a parent, you are seen as the parent.

Well, the new rules say that isn’t going to be necessarily true anymore!  The court believes that it is reasonable to look at both the biological father and the guardian and decide what is in the child’s best interest.

This case wouldn’t be in court if the guardian or ‘father in name only’ had adopted the child.  Instead, the child was just living in his house with the other family members as if he was a child to that father.

It’s great news for the non-biological parents who have been required to pay for children who weren’t their own, but it’s going to make things a little messy with adoptions and ‘surrogate families’ till the new rules get fully worked out.

While it might be okay if parents adopted children as their own, I’m wondering what happens when 2 gay parents want to adopt a child.   Does PA acknowledge a family with 2 male parents?  Or two female parents?

It’s a lot to think about isn’t it?

mo

A friend recommended I get in there and I kept putting it off.  How nice could it be?

Well, it’s really nice!  They have salads and homemade italian food products and fresh bread and party trays and little extras like pepper shooters and broccoli rabe.  They have tiramisu and biscotti and canoli.  Believe it or not they even have a sandwich named for Saint Thomas More which is sweet sausage, sauteed peppers and onions.

I could go on telling you about the food but it would be better if you, unlike me, really took a drive over there and treated yourself to lunch!  It’s a cafe setting with plenty of tables for a nice lunch

Their hours are 8 am till 7pm Monday through Saturday.  They are at 2228 Pottstown Pike and their number is 484-624-5066.

You can tell them I told you to come, but don’t you go thinking I get anything from spouting off about them!  I do it because they have a nice place there!  I do it because it reminds me of all the italian family dinners I got to go to where you didn’t dare leave the table hungry!

Oh, you can check them out online at www.montesanobros.net

Do it

love,

mo

The new witches are living in Coatesville.  Well, honestly at this  point  we are just assuming they are witches but things would be more certain  if we were sure witches killed, burned and ate dogs!  I don’t know a lot about  witches but even the stories that I have heard have never talked about practitioners  that freeze dog heads and decorate with golden painted dog bones.

You know  even if it isn’t witchery going on it’s odd and that has got to be illegal right?

Hmmm.  I mean, honestly Wiccan practices these days make them sound sort of  like hippies for the most part anymore.  Sure they have some unusual practices, but hey, if you take a look at some Christians  this week you’ll find lots of them gorging themselves on doughnuts and some people are planning on dancing and asking for  plastic beads for showing their buxom Christian-ness.  That is weird too!

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.  Wouldn’t it be strange if just like the trial in the 1600′s these people were found to just look like witches and not actually be accused of having crafted any dark and terrible spells.

love,

mo

At least that is what the news is today.  The campaign to advertise the lottery is going to change.  There isn’t any clue as to what the new campaigns will look like but we know there will be no more fuzzy groundhogs in them!

Personally, I don’t care.

love,

mo