On the subject of baking and such, here's a bizarre cake covered in pink ruffles and green slime. Mmmmmm.
Rigel and I went out to see Mom and Renfield and Renfield's new girlfriend Cheryl out at Caligula's in Winchester. Renfield is living in West Virginia with Cheryl now and is very happy. Seems like he's finally getting his act together. Cheryl is very nice. Mom approves. -=)
I mentioned in a recent LiveJournal entry that a new mall is being built down the road from us. There's also a new residential/commercial development called Oaklawn, just off Battlefield Parkway. Nothing's there yet, but eventually Hope Parkway will go all the way through and connect with Battlefield Parkway. It will have ten restaurants. Also, Rigel mentioned the other day it will have an amphitheatre, so we might be able to see... I dunno, whatever they have in amphitheaters... maybe concerts or something.
As per my previous ruminations elsewhere on buying a new external hard drive, I finally settled on one: An Iomega Prestige 1 TB. I found it on Amazon.com for $177. Plus, free shipping! I was going to go with the 500 GB one originally, because 1 TB is waaaaay more space than I really need, but my current computer has an 80 GB drive and when I got that I thought I'd never fill it up either (I currently have 5 GB free).
My Amazon profile picture is hilarious, BTW.
And people say I have no sense of humor. -=)
While blogging about Recipes That Time Forgot, I got sidetracked (as I often do) and started thinking about dusty old memories from the more cobwebby parts of my brain. I pieced together little bits of memories from 1983-1985. I'm thinking maybe I should do more of that.
So, my grandfather, Arnold Jorgensen, Sr., (born April 3, 1903, died May ? 1983), lived in Hartsdale, New York on Central Avenue (425 Central Avenue, White Plains, NY), site of the now-closed former Kentucky Fried Chicken. The two houses immediately east are the exact same model as their house was. He lived there with my grandmother, Johanna Jorgensen (born February 27, 1908, died February 27 1992). He was a cabinetmaker by trade.
They both moved to Beacon, NY some time before 1983 (I was 15). Mount Beacon Incline Railway was still operating when they lived there, because I remember we went on a trip up it once before it closed. The incline railway was destroyed by fire in 1983.
I remember we drove up Route 9D to get there to visit some weekends, going through the tunnel at Breakneck Mountain and passing Bannerman's Castle on the way up. Years later (from about 1987-1997), I would lead excursions out to the island by raft.
