Thursday miscellanea #166

It was great to meet a few more Rocket City Bloggers last night at Lime Fresh, and the proximity to retail 11 days before Christmas wasn’t even so bad. Dave, I’ve known you more than 20 years, yet we’re 0 for 3 at these meetings, and it’s not my fault. Get on the stick, man.
Speaking of Mexican food, I made too much pico de gallo Sunday night, and it’s not any good but a day or so, and it freezes poorly. So I had the idea to make a pot of chili with it. It was way too cilantro-y at first, but did you know sustained heat destroys its flavor? So that worked out nicely. I got the gustatory benefit of the fresh produce in there, while the cilantro faded away.
The boys and I finished all of our pre-Avengers film-watching this past weekend. I think The Incredible Hulk was the weakest, though I’m told it buries the 2003 film.
Saw a Ferrari 328 on the way back from lunch yesterday. I know it’s a relative dog performance-wise, but to me the styling of the 308 and 328 is as iconically Ferrari as anything that’s ever worn the prancing horse.
Drift away, Dobie Gray. RIP.
Coca-Cola is pulling its white polar bear cans because, well, they’re white, so people think it’s Diet Coke, and they fly into a spittle-flecked rage when it’s not.
Almost finished shopping. Still have to do cards. Hope your Christmas list is receiving a satisfactory number of check marks and cross-offs.