Sunday, June 7, 2009

nothing new

I haven't posted here in awhile. So i figured I would.

(1) If you haven't see it, I Have been posting regularly over at my song a day blog.

http://songaday365.blogspot.com/

(2) I've been doing some hardcore house work for my mom the last 48 hours. Landscaping, Exterior Painting, etc.

Now i know why they call farmers and rural folks red necks.

My Scot-Irish skin can't handle the heat. I'm so burnt ... it hurts.

And i dropped my cell phone in a clogged gutter.
That sucked.

So there's my update.

Words.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

80 degree weekend + grill


The warm weather's first six pack:
Sam Adams Summer Ale
the best beer ever.


Saturdays dinner:
First night on the new grill!
Chicken and shrimp kabobs, teriyaki and garlic herb respectively.
Baked potato's!
And veggie kabobs: Red Pepper, Sweet & Red Onion.



Tonight's dinner:
Fire-roasted artichoke basted in balsamic vinaigrette,
with a garlic lemon Aioli dipping sauce.
Grilled yellow peppers and white mushrooms, 
served over an Italian-herb dry rubbed chicken breast.
Lastly a side of garlic, lemon-pepper rice.

The new grill in all it's splendor!
Weber One-Touch Silver, 22.5".
Sexy yes?

The new grill ... midway through assembling.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Pirates!!!

Pirates!!! -- Somali Pirates coolest current event we get to deal with?

I say yes.

So does NPR's Brian Unger ... funny shit.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=103091631&m=103107611

trust me it's worth the 3 min.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter

Happy Easter!

T'was a good day.  If you call playing drums for 2 hours with your kid sister, and eating dinner with Jane's family, and then napping in Jane's parents living room for 2 hours a good day!

Meh, was a good day.

=D

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Wireless Routers

are lame.

Also - 

i bought Jane the British version of Planet Earth and it rocks so hard.
The discovery channels (all the educational TV) needs some HD now.  The standard channels are often fuzzy and just not crisp enough.

Watching Planet Earth in full focus HD crispness is sexy.

Also, the British version as narrated by David Attenborough (as opposed to Sigorney Weaver) makes it sound more intelligent (as British accents usually do).

the only critic i have is that the score is different in the British version versus the American version, and so far i like the American score better.

40$ used and worth every cent.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Birthday Drums Stuff.

Today is my mom's birthday.

Happy birthday mom!

I made her an awesome meal and did the dishes. Not much, but money's tight and she appreciated it.

I also played drums (my sister has a set) for about 15 minutes.
This was much to Jane's dismay. She had never sat so close to a drum set before.

And i'm terrible at them (for now).

She forbade me from having drums in the house...
so i'll just sneak them in later.

Friday, March 20, 2009

New Things!

2 things:

(1) http://songaday365.blogspot.com/ is my other blog ... if you haven't seen it. Read it, contribute, and love it.

(2) I figured out how to rotate my desktop display (i had to update my graphic card drivers) and now i can flip my monitor (one of those fancy dell flat screens that rotate to a portrait position) and read PDF's in a much better fashion.