So I just tried Swaghat, just a few blocks from my house.  It's an Indian place I've been meaning to try.  I usually go to another one but felt like a change today.  Whoa, it was awesome!  Way more choice and it was all fresh (the other place has the food kinda hanging around for a while).  And Swaghat also had Goat curry!  Mmm!  It was good.

I happened upon a new dog that Pacific Pug Rescue has for adoption.  He's totally blind, but can navigate by sound and he's 10 years old.  He hadn't been to a vet for long stretches but just got a clean bill of health.  He looks like such a funny old codger! Just look at this photo!  I hope Charlie looks like this guy when he gets old!

Mustache Buddies

Here you go Mike, a picture of my new mustache.  I was tired, and I just snapped a shot from my phone, so it doesn't look great, but you get the idea.  I really wish I had taken a photo of my huge beard before shaving it.

Chicken Nuggets!! Mmm!

You have to see this picture of chicken nugget paste!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/mechanically-separated-meat-chicken-mcnugget-photo_n_749893.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

PHOTO: Pre-Chicken Nugget Meat Paste, AKA Mechanically Separated Poultry [Updated]

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Mechanically Separated Chicken, from Fooducate, via Early Onset of Night
The photo above has been extensively passed around recently, and for good reason: it's a peek into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat.
Fooducate writes:

Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.

Michael Kindt continues:

There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia... Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?
High five, America!