YACCS can just bite me. I am tired of not having comments on my site. I've switched over to Squawkbox.tv - I don't know if they are any better, but they are indeed, currently working, and there are emoticons with this script. Kitsch, I know, but I like emoticons. Especially ones that move, like these do.

It is a damp, chilly Labor Day - almost as if the Powers that Be are giving the kids a break - turning the weather to reveal the craptacular character that Fall can sometimes have, in an effort to say, "See kids, the weather outside sucks. Isn't it better to stay indoors with a good book today?"

The weekend with my sister's kid is over. It was way more fun than I was expecting, and I'm not quite as exhausted as I thought I'd be. He was the perfect little gentleman. Of course, I guess that spoiling him to the point of him not NEEDING to ask me for anything helped.

Speaking spoilt - we went to the Mongolian BBQ with my sister and her husband when they came to pick the kid up. Why did we go there? Because it is his most favoritest place to eat. For those of you who know nothing of this restaurant, here's an explanation in a nutshell: The whole restaurant is a giant salad bar with an enormous wok in the middle, operated by one or two "chefs" (ok, teenagers with black t-shirts that say 'we do it on a wok').

You pick your protein (meat, fish, poultry, egg, tofu), your veggies, flavored oils and spices. Then you go up to the wok guys, who then cook your creation, for better or for worse, and serve it up to you in a very unattractive bowl Back at your table, they will have, in the meantime, brought rice and tortillias (I don't get that either- since there is no way of making mu-sho with the ingredients they provide), and you sit and eat. You can go up as many times as you want.

What's for a kid not to like? You get to make some crap up in a bowl that some adult will then be forced to cook for you - your way.

I have to admit, I rather like this place. I can do without the atmosphere - it looks like any Lettuce Entertain You restaurant, but the idea is cool. You get to decide exactly what is in your dinner, how large your portion is, whether or not you want fat in your meal (you can always skip the oil) and yet, someone else stands over the big, hot wok. You can actually go out for dinner, and get something more than relatively healthful. AND it costs $13 a person, which for Chicago, is quite reasonable.

Anyhow, leave me a comment, whether or not you have anything to say - I just want to know how well Squawkbox.tv works.