Dear non existent deity! We’ve long been using Kerry Gold Butter in it’s various guises, unsalted, salted and garlic herb. All of it awesome – it’s like the butter we’ve been getting in the past pales in experience of flavor.

The butter in particular – we brought some to a friends house and she thought it was cheese – yeah that tasty. Damnation who knew Irish butter was so good.

So not long ago we were at BJ’s club in Coventry, RI – and yes I know there’s one in Johnston, RI and in South Attleboro, MA that are closer. But in any case someone spotted Kerry Gold product in the refrigerated case. We looked and it’s their Reserve Cheddar.

For a cheddar it’s marvelous. You know how a lot of cheddar cheese has a grainy texture – not so the Kerry Gold – it’s creamy as all hell. And it’s got a nice sharpness but a sweet finish that’s really tasty.

And I hear tell Kerry Gold makes an Irish Cream liquor – we definitely want to try that too because if the Irish can do butter like this, imagine the booze. And I know for a fact that there are more drunks in Ireland than any other country so there’s that too.

Damnation – woke up and it was 25F outside. Still I won’t turn the heat on until December 1st. Place stays around 60F which isn’t bad.

But we went from 70’s to 20’s in the space of 10 days. Ut si!

So we went from 60’s and 70’s to 50’s and low 60’s. Fortunately the dining room is our main heat generator – direct southern exposure. So it keeps the house around 65F without turning the heat on.

If I can make it to December and not turn the heat on so much the better. It’ll deny National Grid a whole bunch of revenue.

So I’ve been studying if you can call it that two languages on Duolingo.

I’m at level 7 in Spanish and level 2 in Italian. Many similarities between the two languages. As I mentioned earlier Italian seems to lean more toward modern Latin, whereas Spanish has that plus influence of Arabic and other language and culture.

So on Duolingo I’m studying two languages. What can I say, I want to get to the point where I’m one of those five language people. So right now I’m about 35% into the Spanish lessons, and just begun Italian. Now this is colored by me having taken Spanish in high school and growing up Italian-American so I heard a lot of the more colorful Italian spoken. To the point where I was at a local Italian store and the girl behind the counter called an indecisive woman a pain in the ass in Italian. I started laughing when I heard it. Because it flash translated for me.

But one thing I note – Italian seems to curve more towards Latin than Spanish does. But as I’ve said before Spanish has a Latin root – but Italian is just updated Latin whereas Spanish got influenced by Arabic and a few other languages.

Once I get some proficiency with those I’d like to study Portuguese. Now that would bring me to four languages but then there’s French. Now French – I can pick up a lot of what’s said there too. If there’s one thing about all the Latin root languages that’s hard to get – the object-verb stuff changes quite a bit from English. English flattens everything out – we don’t have masculine and feminine objects per se.

His real name of course is David Steven Wolfe. Same artist, con-artist just an all around despicable human being.

I’m listening to a Thinking Atheist podcast about him – Wolfe is a con-artist no doubt – he’s being the Nutri-Bullet blender – he’s also a flat earth believer, something I’ve written of before. Fucker has never heard of spacecraft and space stations I suppose.

Pseudo science – however marijuana does in fact have some benefits. Mainly appetite enhancement, and does prevent some cancers. But he thinks it is a wonder drug.

So in essence Wolfe makes money off of ignorance.

So we schlepped down to Newport, RI through horrendous traffic on I-95 in both the north and south directions. Being we left at 5PM might have lots to do with it since it’s prime rush hour and the angle of the sun at certain spots on that highway is a bit intense. But come on half an hour to go 6 miles?

As we got further south the speed picked up, then on RI Route 4 I could drop the hammer and had the car up to speed. Made Newport about 20 minutes after that.

So we all marched to the tower of Newport. If you haven’t seen it:

There were about a dozen of us – the Knights of a certain books fame. All holding candles trying to keep them lit whilst Doctor Love said the benediction. It was nice. I even shined the laser up into the sky.

Now the tower – goes back to the 16th or 17th century. Yeah I know.

Then back to the remodeled Maison DNA shop – very nice remodel on it – it now occupies the entire 1st floor of 64 Spring Street in Newport.

All in all not so bad, got a little wax on me from the candle but nothing I couldn’t handle.