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Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own. Let me know if you want a letter.

Mine was "B"

1. Breakfast. I don't get to eat it during the week that often, or sometimes even during the weekends, but there's something really nice about waking up, grabbing something to munch on, and getting to sit at the table and read the morning paper while you get your brain going.

2. Baseball - though only in person. There's a really fun experience in going to the ballpark with friends, figuring out scoring, and all the wierd inter-inning things that you can't understand through a TV.

3. BOOM! It's the best sound ever.

4. Books. My oldest, and truest addiction. There really is nothing better than zoning out with a book on the couch.

5. Barbeque. Mmmm, barbeque. Getting the grill going, cooking stuff up, BSing with friends while we grill and eat, and the usual surrounding mayhem - gorgeous.

6. Bacon - it goes with everything, plus it can be an important component of #1 and #5. Versatile, dangerous, and often eager to please.

7. Bowling. I'm not actually very good at it, but it's another really nice way to go out and be social with people. Nobody usually is that concerned about how well they're playing, and if they are, a few drinks usually loosens them up. Which leads us to...

8. Beer! Even if I'm pretty much a social drinker, and unless someone else is driving or I am at home, I'm a 2 drink maximum guy, I like the almost endless varieties and flavors that beer brings to the table, and how versatile it is. You can cook anything from chili to cakes with it, and if you use it right, it almost always makes things taste better.

9. Bread. Oh, god. Crusty bread. (Is it my fault so many good foods start with B?) Give me thick, flavorful, crusty bread and a big bowl of soup, and I'll probably be in heaven.

10. Blue. I really, really love the color blue. Green's been my favorite since I was a little kid, but blue tends to show up in so many beautiful and unique things that I can't help but love it.

In other news, Crate and Barrel sent me a catalog today, inviting me to "Experience!" Crate and Barrel. It has done little but convince me that the people who go to a store and buy $500 lamps for their $2500 end tables are crazy. Not "amusing" sort of crazy, either. I'm talking "Oh-look-dear, the neighbor is sodomizing himself with a bundt pan" crazy. Especially when I don't see anything in the design or production (at least in the catalog) that makes me think it's any better than the stuff I can get by going to furniture places around town, or hitting some of the bric-a-brac shops around town, where I probably get a car-load or 3 of stuff for the entire house for $3,000, not just a table and lamp.

I suspect it's a lot like the way I felt walking around Whole Foods last night. Some of the stuff looked really attractive, but the majority of it felt like it was meant for someone in a different lifestyle and/or tax bracket. (I don't care -how- organic your milk is, I'll drink WD-40 before I pay $10 for a gallon of 2% milk.)