My brain is melted from working on the patois I'm making. It's coming along nicely, but it's amazingly hard to make it all fit together.

Wealth and fame are like alcohol: they don't make you happy. They can only augment happiness that's already there. If someone isn't happy before getting drunk, they don't become a "happy drunk".

Sausages in the frypan, heat on high. Then tip a tin of diced tomatoes onto the sausages. This will be the "gravy". Then I chop the sausages into bite size pieces with an egg flip, while they're still cooking and soaking up the tomatoes. When they're nearly cooked, sprinkle some basil through it liberally. Voilà! It tastes so good I didn't even need salt, or anything else. And all I dirtied was the frypan, egg flip, plate and fork.

I'd like to find a community that shared cheap, quick and easy recipes like this. But there doesn't seem to be any.

I made really amazing braised sausages today. Only 3 ingredients! Quick and easy to cook, and really tasty! =-)

Your post prompted me to have a look at Tildes. It looks alright, but a bit... dry.

Not San Jose, and not Juicy Burger. It was a small franchise that went broke.

It's a tie for me.

1. A place where they served only the bun and meat, and you got to serve yourself your own salad and sauces. I made some absurdly tall burgers. The taste was phenomenal too. Very handy place when I was a student with very little money.

2. Playing a gig in a small town. Saw a burger called The Carnivore. Was assured it was worth the cost, so I bought one. This thing had mince patty, bacon, sausage, steak, chop (pork or lamb, can't remember which), then cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato, egg... and I'm probably still forgetting something it had. It was monstrous. It took me almost an hour to eat it, and I enjoyed every minute.

Haha you can have her. Good luck!

I bought some tiny sparkly metal stars to keep the pigeons out of my garden. They trample in the garden every day and damage plants. I know they don't mean to, but I'd like them to stop. I read that sparkly things will keep the pigeons away, because the sunlight hits the bits of metal and confuses/annoys the pigeons enough that they stay away. I'll try it tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I'll try spraying cayenne pepper around the garden (apparently that works too).

What do you have in mind?

I was sitting by the lagoon when these two waddled up, hassling me for food. They were leaning on me, showing their "teeth" (I know they're not really teeth. The serrated rows of sharp things in their beaks). I gently pushed them off me, and gave one of them a scratch on the belly. Then they struck a pose so I could take this pic.

She's not even good looking, though. I mean she's not repulsively hideous to look at, certainly not beautiful.