August 24, 2011: Yet another Carl Binder belated birthday dinner! And another Weird Food Purchase of the Day video installment! And one more bento box masterpiece!

Last night, we went out for yet another Carl Binder belated birthday dinner.  I mean, seriously.  How long is he going to keep milking this?  I think his birthday was back in March!

Anyway, we all gathered at Babur Restaurant that Carl happily declared his "favorite restaurant in Canada"!, apparently beating out the likes of Earls, Red Robin, and that little Mexican place with the taco soup they don't call "taco soup".

The birthday boy, all smiles.

With super special guest star: Alan McCullough.

Mike Dopud, in town shooting our show - and about a half dozen other shows as well.

Alexander and Sarah. Alex has been putting in such late hours that we actually had to wake him up for this picture.

Me and Akemi. Post vindaloo.

Alexander and Sarah surprise Carl with the perfect gift: one heavy-ass beer keg he had to lug all the way back to his place.

Today's weird food purchase of the day video installment: the classic deep-fried Mars Bar.

Finally, today's bento breakfast masterpiece compliments of Akemi…

Kuma-chan!

Hmmm. Many of you seem to be experiencing technical difficulties trying to play the videos on this blog.  Someone suggested it may be browser-related.  I just noticed my own browser-related quirk.  For some reason, I can't approve comments if I open this blog in Safari.  My "approve" button just doesn't exist unless I use Firefox.  Odd.

P.S. A huge thanks to everyone who has been offering advice on the whole Akemi immigration thing.  Extra special thanks to Lise for the informative pointers.