Dessert table

Come & get it! chix bbq & all this yummy sweet stuff @northshelbyschool 5 To 8tonight!

It's cold and the sink is warm!

Ups and downs

It's a going-away lunch for Star photographer Roger Darrigrand and I'm oh, so tempted. But since I signed up for Shrinkdown, I've said no to quite a few things - Hershey's dark chocolate, second helpings, most anything that comes from a drive-through window.

This one was hard, though.

Three of our guys ordered dessert. Not just any old sweet thing, either, but a scrumptious, gooey, heavenly-looking concoction lovingly dressed in a cloud of whipped cream.The name of the treat - Simply Sinful - was the first clue I shouldn't indulge.

The second - I've actually made some progress in this Shrinkdown effort and don't want to blow it.

Then there's the prospect of soaring up but certainly crashing down from the sugar rush. They pay me to actually produce some work after lunch, and I knew one way to scuttle that is to load up with sugar.

So I'm tooting my own horn this afternoon, even bragging that the trip to and from our little party was on foot.

I'm praying now that my magnet to the snack machine loses its power.

Hard to resist - but I did it!

Simply sinful

Help! They're dragging me into cyberspace

My boss will break out in a mile-wide smile when he sees this. His sincerest wish for my work is that I'll embrace all the new technology The Star is using and make it my own. He says it will help me connect even more than I already do with readers.Thursday morning I took a leap of faith, snapped a picture of a frozen truck tag with my amazing cell phone and somehow launched it toward this site. I still don't understand how all this works, but obviously it does.I'll be sharing what I learn - if I can do that without really embarrassing myself or my boss. Most of you already know everything I'm about to learn, but this could be pretty entertaining, so stick around.Right now, I'm called the senior reporter, but soon ... the V-cast and moblog queen of the newsroom.

A few dripping icicles the only activity outside emergency ops center this a.m.