• The Mother’s Day menu in casa di Gatti was sauteed salmon with a dill cream sauce. Turned out well. Not Alaskan salmon but good nonetheless. #
• Last night’s SNL with Betty White was the funniest episode I’ve seen in a few years. “Wizard of Ass!!!” #
• It feels more like Fall than Spring outside, so what the heck, I broke out the pumpkin spice coffee this morning. #
• I realized we finally get @discovery in HD. @DeadliestCatch is even better in this way. #
• I just ordered some postage stamps to support shelter animals. Get some at http://stampstotherescue.com. #
• Public Service Notice: Jersey strawberries are now out at the farm stands. http://twitpic.com/1nztwd #
• Just finished landscaping Stroup Manor. #
• Exhausting but productive day. Rewarding myself with a Wawa hoagie… on whole wheat. Even when I splurge I’m responsible to a fault. #

• @comcast finally did some something right & provided a bandwidth usage meter so we can finally guessing if we went over every month. #
• RT @Ihnatko: “A Geek’s Sign of Spring: I plug my phone into the car dock & notice the cable is soft & flexible instead of cold and stiff.” #
• @embly917 I think there are a lot of people out there who would benefit immensely from reading such a blog. in reply to embly917 #
• Would have been a great weekend to get stuff done outside if not for being sidelined by a stupid head cold. #
• What better way to end a stressful day than to have the dentist drill your teeth. The week over yet? #
• Google turned off filters in China. While I’m sure the Chinese government will block them, it’s a good first move. http://bit.ly/9vdoQI #
• Watch how Google’s experiment in information freedom in China is going day by day. http://bit.ly/dd84V4 #
• RT @digitalkitty “Discovery has signed a deal with Sarah Palin to host a TV show” -Did my favorite channel just jump the shark? So pathetic! #
• Took great effort to avoid giving my grandfather my cold. Now I’m at Walgreens buying him cough medicine. So much for that plan. #
• FINALLY making corned beef & cabbage that was meant for St Pat’s Day. Made up for being so late by also having Irish oatmeal for breakfast. #

• I can’t believe @Discovery cancelled American Chopper! The show was just starting to get good again. It could’ve made a comeback. #
• No snow day tomorrow. Oh well, can’t have it all. At least we got a snowy weekend. #
• @Pogue What’s worse is CapitalOne Bank says they’ll only support Quicken 2010 soon. Dropped 07 users in Dec but rolled back change for now. in reply to Pogue #
• While I couldn’t care less about football, it’s nice to see the people of NOLA celebrating something positive after a crappy few years. #
• Best response to sleazy pseudo-religious freaks ever! “I have a sign” & “I was promised donuts” are my favorites.LOL! http://bit.ly/dxCGIi #
• Chances are looking good for a snow day tomorrow. #
• Nothing ruins 2 snows days off from work like a slip & fall injury. Oh well, could be worse, I could’ve run myself over with the snowblower. #
• How odd, my credit card company called. They flagged a $20 charitable donation as suspicious. Better too safe than not safe enough, I guess. #
• If this injury has taught me anything it’s that I’ll now have a point of reference anytime I call something a pain in the ass. #

 I just happened to read that the Discovery Channel is is going ot start airing Season 4 of The Deadliest Catch in only a few months. I know I’ve talked about this show before in the blog so I won’t describe it again, but check out the Deadliest Catch Blog to learn more about what’s going on with the show. That’s where I found out it’s due to come back on in April.

I’m a big fan of the Discovery Channel and it’s various other networks. They’ve now taken on one of the most unique shows I’ve seen yet. Well, actually calling this a show is probably a little bit of an understatement.It’s more of a spectacle or event.

It’s called Discovery Atlas. It’s a series of 30 2-hour shows that will be produced and aired over the next 5 years. Each episode profiles one country. The features some history, but mainly focuses on modern life in that nation. One of the things that makes this show so amazing is that it is shot entirely in high definition. It’s simulcasted on Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater. The camera work is breathtaking.

There is also a lot of content on their website including podcasts. It’s definitely worth checking out. China has already aired, next will be Brazil, Italy and Australia. My DVR is already set. They air Sundays at 9pm.

I just read in the Emerils Blog that Jesse James (of Monster Garage on Discovery Channel and proprietor of West Coast Choppers) is opening a burger joint in Long Beach, CA. To answer the obvious questions, yes the burgers will be shaped like iron crosses and yes the waitresses will all have tattoos. It will be called Cisco Burgers.

Everyone knows that my favorite time of the year is Fall and Winter. I just saw this article about a new “Ice Bar” in London. It’s a bar made entirely of ice. It’s an offshoot of a really cool (no pun intended) Ice Hotel in Lapland, Sweden.

I saw the hotel on a Discovery Channel show last year. I’d love to visit it someday! BTW, I just noticed that the show is going to be on again this year on 18 October at 1pm EST.

You’ll be seeing more posts in the coming days that go on about fall and winter things since I’m so happy that the cool weather season is beginning.