Post 3850 - Cool Bevboy's Blog Contest. Don't be left out!

Went to bed early on Monday night. Sorry about that.

Let's see here. What did I do to warrant writing about on a blog?

Not much.

After work, it being Shrove Tuesday at all, we were thinking of going to a Catholic church for one of their dinners. But we both realized that we didn't really feel like going. Instead, I threw it out there: we get a package of bacon and cook some of it, while I prepare some more French toast. Patricia loved the suggestion. So, that's what we did.

I threw some eggs in a mixing bowl along with some water and beat everything to an inch of its life. I added a bit of pure vanilla extract and a titch of orange food colouring (just because), plus some cinnamon. Beat everything some more.  Set the mixture aside.

Cooked some bacon. Placed cooked bacon on a couple pieces of paper towel.

Soaked three more pieces of the raisin bread in the egg mixture. Started cooking.

It took a while, until 6:45 or so, but we sat down to a decent meal of French toast. Patricia said she loved it. I'm glad.

Perhaps we have started a new tradition. It is all well and good to step out for a meal, but if you can stay home and have food that is just as good if not better, for less, then why go out?

We watched the season opener of "Good Girls", which is just as compelling and interesting as season one was, last year. We started to watch the reboot of "Street Legal", but Patricia was tired so we decided to watch it some other evening. We have waited 25 years for the show to return. What is another night or two?

Oh, here's something. Straight from Vista Print comes the first run of the official, handy-dandy, soon-to-be-highly-coveted, Bevboy's Blog bookmarks. Do you remember books? Words printed on paper and bound together, with a pleasing front cover, and blurbs on the back extolling the contents between the covers? Well, back in the day, people in reading these books would have to remember what page they were on. They could A) Remember what page they were on and just turn to it every time they wanted to read; B) Use a slip of paper such as one could find in a notebook or a receipt from a drugstore or something; or C) use a bookmark.

Bookmarks come in many sizes. I always thought it was silly to pay for them, but many do, shelling out upwards of ten dollars for one of them. Many book companies, in rhapsodizing their wares, provide bookmarks as a form of advertising. There is a bookstore in the Valley that has scads of these bookmarks. If you buy a book, you can help yourself to a fistful of them, at no additional cost.

It got me to thinking.

I am Bevboy. I like books Why not have, in addition to the business cards, bookmarks, too?

Vistaprint became very helpful. I designed the layout of the bookmark. Coughed up some money and waited for them to arrive. And, today, they did.

The layout still needs some work, but this is version one of the bookmarks.

That is the front and the back, both.

Like I said, the layout is not what I want for future editions of the bookmark, but this is not a bad attempt.

This is where you come in.

If you want one of these limited, never-to-be-ordered again bookmarks (because I will revise the layout for future editions), then let me know. I am willing to give away eight of them. Your best bet is to write me right here and say hello and ask me for a bookmark. Provide your mailing address and I will pop one in the mail to you toot sweet. While you're at it, if you can suggest a layout change, do that as well.

Please put something like "Bevboy's Blog Bookmark Give Away" in the subject line so I will know your message is not spam.

The contest is over when the eight bookmarks are gone. Could be tomorrow, or a year from tomorrow.

Start writing, so that you can start reading.

See you tomorrow.

Bevboy