Vassili's Wedding minus 1 - Now this helps you!

Preparation activities afoot, please ask my mummy for the cufflinks, where have you hid my shoe?
    [where might she be]
                                           [what she may think...]
                                                                                             [...where ...]

Roge enters with a tray of jellys, lined up in 2 collumns. Left collumn is "Plain", right is not.

ROGE:  Knock, Knock.
Ready or not,  friends of the groom, CHOOSE wisely:

OPER: Afterall, it can make the diffference between having a fine Wedding Night  and NOT having.

YOU: Still, know that quantity is not quality.

OPER: You are in <cough> .. the middle ... take the left, choose "Plain"!

YOU: No YOU take the left. . . .Take the Plain.
          I am thinking...
<sees own  hand, resting on his knees, knuckles and keys...>
         I think I 'll CHOOSE Super Fucking God Damn (x4)
OPER:  Morning sees Night's choices and laughs!

Alcohasi Delivery - IKEA helps!

Now past midnight, a new day has registered in the DI-GI-TAAAAL clock on the kitchen wall,
and the smell of Alcohasi fills the room, like river-Spree-water flowing through the crack of the window of a Berlin TAXI.

Both my wife and daughter are of the sign AQUARIUS,  so I should know something about pouring Alcohasi in the mixing bowl  with Jelly to make J-Alcohasi. (stirr a lot).

Finally, thank IKEA for bringing us these Jalcohasi porters

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( six is all I could fill) and count the days for Vassili's & Lydia's wedding.

Find me at the party to try a shot of Jalcohasi!

Alcohasi Night - Vassilis Wedding Day minus 2

Today I gave it the first go, see what it takes to do it right.
Hope I have some decent kind of desert before Manos leaves and Vassilis gets married, which more or less is this weekend.
Meanwhile, and while Alcohasi is allowed to settle in the fridge,
enjoy the latest music revelation:

Yerba buena - la candela (prendela) ft. Orishas

Not enuff lamb to go round

Greek Orthodox Easter is behind us, spent in Roumeli, the place with lamb roasting tradition.

Easter Sunday in Amfissa is definetely the wrong time and place to train for the Iron Man World Championship.

3.8 Kms swim , followed by 180 Km cycling and followed by a full 42 Km Marathon.
Nobody was.

Talking of Iron Man, one can not forget Team Hoyt. (Did not see them in Amfissa)

Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt, born June 1, 1940^[1]) and son (Rick Hoyt, born January 10, 1962) team from Holland, Massachusetts who have competed together in various athletic endeavors, including marathons and triathlons. Rick has cerebral palsy and during competition Dick pulls Rick in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat in the front of a bicycle, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run. Team Hoyt was inducted to the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2008.

Think of them next time you think you are having a tough time.

So, lamb aplenty during Easter, spring love in the air and no triathlon Iron Men.


Faithless - Not enuff love

Steak and Blowjob Day! - 14th March

Celebrated on March 14th, Steak and Blowjob Day is a holiday for men, celebrated the month after Valentine's Day -- a holiday for women.
The idea is simple: no cards, flowers, candy or other whimsical gifts. Ladies (and gay men), you simply bestow your partner with a steak and a blowjob. Not necessarily in that order.

Dave: "Hey Bob, what did Sally get you for Steak and Blowjob Day?"
Bob: "Well Dave, that would be a big juicy steak, and a big juicy blowjob."

source: http://www.urbandictionary.com

What more is there to add to such a self-explanatory celebration?

Just 5 “Avoids” to make this great day memorable, with safety and fun.

1. Avoid rushing the preparation. 

(Hair fire-catching risk)

2. Avoid complex positions AFTER steak.

(get-to-know-my-inside-world risk)

 

3.  Avoid simultaneous pleasures.

(bump-on-the-head risk)

 

4. Avoid celebrating and driving.

(no free hand for driving)

 

5. Avoid spending TOO much time on the steak.

(I-missed-my-blowjob risk)

With these few tips in mind, make the best to enjoy your well deserved celebration!

Jelly DJs

music sound in Athens bars streamlined?  Catch yourself yawning after 20 minutes in the hands of an also yawning DJ?
I get out,- rarely, I must admit-, to bore for 2-3 hours in a newly decorated bar, club etc.
The bartender area is similar to any other, this wall of bottles is unique (or not) and  the DJ seems to repeat what was on the radio this morning or copying another DJ, I was listening to last Thursday.
Throughout the year there are discrete bar seasons:

 Xmas                                Apokries (bamboleo season),
pre-Eurovision spring         post –Eurovision spring
summer                              autumn+winter

and each season, I get the feeling that there are more or less 100 –150 songs played.  Again and again. Year in, year out.
You know you are at the end of the season when you are already fed up with listening to the piece the DJ has just,- proudly-, played.  Hell, you have already heard it 60-70 times already!
No wonder it takes so much alcohol to have fun and start dancing.
The best of Jelly DJs is yet to come: artists with curiosity, scanning and experimenting in YouTube, exploring jamendo, hunting for upcoming artists in the open and not out of the lists (or freebies) of major music distributors.
Jell-o, happy guys discovering Colombian hiphop, like Choc Quib Town

Mummy, can I please have music like this? Please?

BTW try searching Google for “how to have fun with alcohol “.
Google doesn’t believe you really want to do this, does it?
“No, really I want alcohol!”
Well,  this is where Google get stubborn, and expect to be told off,  if you keep on pressing for alcohol.






Disclaimer: The above searches were only done as part of the research to find photos for this post.  When I REALLY want alcohol, I maintain the good sense to not fight with Google over it!

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Brown, gluey substance: Can’t be Jell-o!

Day in and day out we come across brown, yellowish or white, gluey substances, whether walking on the sidewalk, talking to the people at work or playing.

Nobody would say that such a  substance is Jell-o, and pretty damn right, too! The brief definition from Wikipedia below, comes to show how far apart brown, gluey substance and Jell-o lie.

To better illustrate the differences , I have added some well-placed [comments] within the text.

 

Green Jell-O

Jell-O is sold prepared (ready to eat) or in powder form, and it is available in many different colors and flavors. [Brown, gluey substance only comes in one color]. The powder contains powdered gelatin and flavorings including sugar or artificial sweeteners. It is dissolved in very hot water, then chilled and allowed to set. Sometimes fruit, vegetables, whipped cream, or other ingredients are added to make elaborate snacks that can be molded into various shapes. Jell-o must be refrigerated until served, and once set properly, it is normally eaten with a spoon.

[as shown on TV, ca. 1960s]

1960s Borderline Racist Jell-o Commercial

 

History

Gelatin, a protein produced from collagen extracted from the boiled bones, connective tissues, and intestines of animals, has been well-known and used for many years. [for this part I am happier with brown, gluey substance for not knowing what it is produced from]

It was popularized in the Victorian era with spectacular and complex "jelly molds". [ from this part onwards it gets a bit boring so I am skipping to the juicy parts]

. . .

Forty years later the patent was sold to a LeRoy, New York-based carpenter and cough syrup manufacturer, Pearle B. Wait. He and his wife May added strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon flavoring to the powder and gave the product its present name in 1897. Unable t

. . .

In 2001, Green Jell-O was declared the "Official State Snack" of Utah, with Governor Michael O. Leavitt declaring an annual "Jell-O Week." [Roumeli’s “Official State Snack” is grilled lamb chops, and as for the brown, gluey substance it has yet to find a state to officialize it ]

. . .

Fresh pineapple, papaya, kiwi, and ginger root cannot be used [… in the Jell-O-o] because they contain enzymes that prevent the gelatin from "setting." [My mother had only told me about kiwi, but there.]

source: Wikipedia with comments and omissions by Cyras

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Handmade scales

Takes some calibration before use.

made by plastic cups, skewers, 1/2 orange for base.

small pieces of aluminum foil used for calibration.

a bright orange electrical test meter (multimeter)



Never used by James Dean.

Not part of the process of making jelly shots

(see below)

Jelly Deans: Not a world of jell-o

In the 1970s jell-o arrives in Greece, to become the top trend for parties and children’s snacks alike.

James Dean (much loved by my parent’s generation) leaves our world in 1955, too early to be commemorated on jell-o, on a Greek platter.

( I know I have not seen one)

 

J.Dean: Never carved in Jell-o.

 

Dean (education)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both. They usually run universities or colleges, but some deans are present in middle schools and high schools as well.

I have known no dean as yet, that has associated his reputation with anything related to Jell-o.