No Squirrel for you Chef.

Did you know that it is actually illegal to purchase squirrel meat on the internet IN THE USA?  I mean, can you believe that!!!   First healthcare, now this.  You can purchase squirrel meat if, for instance, you are living in Iraq, but apparently it is illegal here in the U.S.A. .  I mean, what makes squirrel meat any worse to purchase than say ... rabbit, or frog meat.  And what makes it any worse to buy it pre-packaged than to shoot your own and call it a day.  I think it is just bizarre.  How can you make squirrel gravy and cat head biscuits if you are not allowed to purchase the basic ingredients.  So much for that dish occuring in the finest restaurants in New York, and in a city where they are probably overrun with squirrels.

I went to dinner last night with two good friends, Monica and Chris and we decided that the finer restaurants probably have a secret "Squirrel Meat" closet where they sell it "off the menu".  It is right in there beside puffer fish and cuban cigars.

Somewhere in Iraq chefs are rolling in squirrel meat, but here in the U.S. the government has decided to outlaw it.

Just bizarre.

What if you sent an email and someone replied! Ooooo. Very Scarey.

My Auntie Em died.  It was not like she didn't have some health issues, but it was still a shock.  She had overcome an onset of lung cancer nearly five years ago, but apparently it returned with a vengence (lung cancer has no sense of humor) and took her out quite quick.  She was a feisty, liberal, religious, (yep you heard those two right) and giving person.  Sue and I will miss her greatly as will everyone else, which was apparent at her funeral.  Aunt Emmelene was my dad's older sister, 79 plus actually, and as older sister's are want to do, she often told my dad the whatfor, but as my dad is want to do, he weathered these boughts of "improvement advice" and loved his sister. It is hard to lose your sister.

I got home and was working through a bunch of stuff and have about five emails from Aunt Emmelene, some read and one not yet read.  I was on the running trail in the 5 am darkness this morning and thought what if you replied to one of those emails and got a note back!!!  Oh my god, how scarey is that!  Well let me tell you, in the darkness on the running trail it is VERY scarey.  I scared myself.   What if the internet really is a portal to the afterlife and we can just go ahead and email our dead relatives as if they were still around.  I mean for some of us that is just about the extent of our relationship with our relatives -- email.

I'm sure someone has done a movie to that affect and probably written a book. You know there is actually a website called Email to the Afterlife!?!?.   Just to be on the safe side, I am not going to send a note back to Aunt Emmelene.  She deserves some time off anyway.