A local area man whose name is currently being withheld, received a summons on September 13, 2010 by a process server from Facebook.  The court documents stated that due to his gross negligence in updating his Facebook status that he was being sued for $650,000.  Facebook states that the lack of updates from the local area man have caused their tracking database to go slightly stale and they fear they will not be able to track his every move with such gaps in his updates.  Additionally Facebook asserts that they will have loss of income associated with the over fifty-thousand affiliates to whom they sell the local area man’s personal information.

What the public is aware is that Facebook requires its users to update their status on a regular basis and to keep their profile current.  What the public typically is unaware of is exactly how much money Facebook receives by selling their personal information.  Unfortunately for most of the public they signed a contract with Facebook for the use of their service when they created their account.

Facebook could not be reached for comment on this legal matter, but rest assured that more information will come out on this story as it breaks.

It was just overheard amongst a group of congressman that a new bill will be making its way to the floor for a vote before the end of the current session.  This bill would make it unlawful for children to pick their noses in public.  If this law is passed this could generate about $4.3 billion in additional revenue for the state helping to stave off the massive budget shortage.

Apparently the logistics are that if your child is caught picking their nose in public then the parent can be fined based on the depth-of-the-pick.  With fines ranging from $40-$120.  There is certainty that many parents will be outraged by this since they cannot stop their child from picking their noses in public.  The only known way to stop a child from their nose is to smack their hand, and getting caught smacking a child is a far greater fine ranging in the hundreds to thousands of dollars including legal costs.  Thus, it is assumed that the parent will be unable to stop the child and pay the small fine.

As you can see the website has been redone.

There are styling changes that will be coming in the following weeks.  The gallery has been updated as well.  The entire site should now be much faster and cleaner.  The recipes section has been updated and now supports recipe submissions.

My wife (Heather) and I would be in a rotating rut. What fueled the rut we were in was that I usually didn’t care what we had for dinner because I am just not very picky and although she wasn’t really picky she couldn’t decide what she wanted. When there was something I wanted it would depend on whether she was in the mood for that or not. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.

So, the rut would consist of about 5-10 different dishes we would make for dinner that didn’t take long to make, and were easy to stock for a week from the grocery store depending on if there was any of those specific dishes we wanted. If not, sometimes we would make variations on the core ingredients, but again, this wasn’t very exciting.

So we would just make the same things every 5-10 days for 1-3 months until one or both of us were sick of it and decided it was time for something new. To make it even more exciting we could never quite agree on what exactly those new dishes should be.

After going through this cycle for a couple years we finally discovered Dream Dinners. We purchased the sampler for the month of January 2009 and within the first week we knew that we found something good. We quickly did the math and figured out that what we had been purchasing at the store on a weekly basis for dinners was marginally less than going to dream dinners. When we factored in the stress of deciding what to have for dinner, the time it would take to prepare the meals, and the pure boring dinner rut we were in it really was quite an easy decision for us to start using Dream Dinners.

I really only have to worry, once a week about what we are going to have for dinner. I take the dinners out of the freezer and that is it. I honestly wish we would have know about Dream Dinners a couple years sooner.

Now to comment on how good the food is. In the first couple months I was somewhat picky because of some of the descriptions. For our 3rd month’s order I decided that since EVERY single meal we had ordered in the first 2 months was exceptionally good that I would take a chance and order some of the things with the descriptions that I didn’t think sounded that great. Wow! What a great decision. Because of that, most months I now order at least one of an item even if the description doesn’t really catch my eye. I learned that the descriptions do not always do justice to how good a recipe is. In 18 months of using Dream Dinners there have been around 5 recipes that we didn’t like. There have been a few other recipes that were just OK. All of the rest have been very good. I would even qualify quite a few of them to be exceptionally good if not fantastic. If I were finding recipes on my own all this time I can almost guarantee that I would not have had such a high success rate.

I would recommend Dream Dinners to anyone and everyone. If for no other reason other than to mix things up. I can also easily say that my wife and I are much happier since we started using Dream Dinners.

One of a bunch of ultra-high quality ice creams from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.  This is very smooth with a slight saltiness, which is absolutely great.  A little bit of brown sugar adds a nice color.  The bourbon is subtle, but noticeable.  I would LOVE to pair this with a piece of Rum Cake from my recipe.  I think these two together would be the ultimate dessert!!!