Unless I suddenly discover a previously unknown reserve of ambition and energy this is going to be my last post of 2017. I may squeeze another one in, but I probably won’t as I intend to make soup and sandwiches in a few minutes and spend the rest of the evening making a serious dent in the Christmas food mountain.
As usual, I bought too much, because you don’t want to run out of food when you have guests over.
I also bought too much beer. I’m not going to be depleting the beer stocks as I’m not much of a drinker these days. I bought a selection pack of Adnams beer to test over the holiday but only tested three of them.
I can report that they tasted like beer, with a distinct beery aftertaste. The Lighthouse and Easy Up were easy to drink, as I like IPA-style beers. The Ghost Ship was a trifle heavier and sent me to sleep.
As reviews go, it’s going to win no prizes. You need vocabulary like citrus, hoppy and fruitcake aroma if you’re a beer reviewer and, quite honestly, I couldn’t say fruitcake aroma with a straight face.
In future I’m going to work to my strengths and stick to book reviews. Or I could build up my knowledge and vocabulary and train to be a chocolate reviewer too, but I fear it’s an unattainable dream. Losing weight is a priority, beer and chocolate are not.
However, on to my latest hobby horse. I nearly wrote a post entitled “Knee-deep in Bovine Excrement” after reading about a new career I’d never heard of before.
I’ve previously written about professional cuddling. I’m not going to knock it, if you can make $60 an hour cuddling someone, and can find people who will pay it, then good luck to you. I can see how it could help people, and can’t do much harm (unlike drugs) but is it really a career?
Now I’ve found and even more insubstantial “career”. It’s very tempting to study for it, but, as with beer reviewing I might find it a bit hard to keep a straight face. Check out the International Federation of Biblio-Poetry Therapy for details of what I consider a flimsy career.
Again, it may we do good, and it can’t do much harm. Compared to the cuddling there’s also less room for awkward misunderstanding. However, if you want to know more about becoming qualified you will have to pay $20 for the information pack. Not only that but if you want to convince one of the mentors you are serious about it you have to take a creative writing course. That will cost you around £400. It’s a good course – you can tell that because one of the course directors is a mentor for the International Federation of Biblio-Poetry Therapy. Er… hang on a minute…
Let’s just say that I wish I’d known about this twenty years ago.
According to one internet entry (which may or may not be true) you can charge $160 for prescribing a therapeutic reading list.
Sorry, have to go now, can’t type more as tears of laughter are obstructing my view of the keyboard…
Happy New Year to you all, see you next year.
I may have read about a more obscure career – predator pee collector. There are people that do actually do this. I have always wondered how this occupation is listed on their IRS tax returns.
https://www.predatorpee.com/predatorpee-collection.htm
I particularly liked the idea of it as “an income stream”. 🙂
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Happy New Year! No horror can come close to the horror of not having enough food for guests. Or so I tell myself every year at Christmas. 😉
Happy New Year to you all too.
We over-bought but fortunately kept it within limits so, after sending Number Two son back to Uni with a bag of groceries, we are managing to cope. 🙂
Actually, we did, too. Most of the treats are gone. Clif and I will valiantly work through the rest. 😉
🙂 Yes, it’s a tough job but it needs doing.
Happy New Year! I too am ploughing through the mountain of Christmas food, though in our case it’s all the stuff that others have off-loaded into us 😉.
I bought too much meat and we are eating much of it as sandwiches, which means my self-imposed bread ban is taking a rest. Well, and too many snacks… 🙂
With us it’s cakes and biscuits. Maybe meat and bread would be better… 😉.
We managed to cut out most of the cake and biscuits. The biscuits we were given have been polished off already.
That’s good!
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Hopefully, this kept you awake long enough
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Happy new year to you Quercus. You brighten even the gloomiest day.
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Well, it does sound like a bit of a scheme, I agree. I did love the Mary Oliver quote on the front page, though. Happy New Year to you, sir.
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I will be setting up my new site soon for the “Looking out the window from my flat, while other people go off to work, and thinking about the world wide effects of burning the toast therapy training Institute.” I think I might need to tweek the name a bit but for now it will just be called the LOTWFMFTTI.
For only One BITCOIN I will tell you a bit more about it.
It sounds promising.
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Thank you. Happy New Year.