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Great Lazy Weekend

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Maranda and I had a great weekend.
It kind of started Thursday night. We had been wanting to make ke-bobs on the grill for a while but never got around to it. We realized this would be a lot of work for just two people so we decided to make a cookout of it. We got ahold of Josh and Jeremy to see if they wanted to participate. They did and Jeremy (Kenzia) offered to host. I marinated some steak and chicken and bought fixin’s for the ke-bobs. Jeremy and Kenzia made cole slaw and beans and Josh and Cheryl provided yummy cookies for dessert. Jack and Lily were cute like always and gave us lots of entertainment. The night was perfect and ended well with s’mores.

Friday was pretty uneventful. We basically sat around and had Ice Cream.

Saturday was a bit more exciting as we went to Farmer City to visit Maranda’s Sister and her new twins. It was fun even though I just sat around and ate spaghetti and cookies. We wanted to take advantage of the nice weather so we went to Old Orchard to play putt-putt. I’m pretty sure I won but when Maranda tallied up the score it was 51 to 51. Not sure how that happened. We went to Sun Singer for dinner and it was amazing as usual. I tried the “Hot Dutch” and Maranda had the “Jamaican Jerk Chicken Wrap” mmmm. Then on a whim we decided to go see a movie. I picked “The Hangover.” Maranda thought it would be dumb and I kind of did too, but it turned out to be SO FUNNY. There were so many things wrong with that movie….but it was absolutely amazing. It will definitely get added to my DVD collection when it comes out. After the movie we went back home to watch some TV and made Caipirinhas. They were a great way to end the day.

Sunday was kind of lazy and we went to Le Peep for brunch. It was awesome and I was very happy to have a good friend from High School Jamie as a server. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. We watched the Turkish Grand Prix (Formula One) and then went for a walk and explored the new subdivisions that are popping up. After a while we watched “He’s Just not that In to you.” that Maranda wanted to rent. It was okay. I think it points out in great detail how dumb girls are some times. (I’m sure I’ll get hit for that comment.) But oh well.

So pretty good weekend. One more open weekend and then a about three months of busy…Joy.

Weddings and updates…

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I’ve decided I like weddings where I’m a part of the wedding party much better than when I’m not.
It’s really nice not having to deal with what to wear, where to be, and so forth.


I think I’m going to move the IPA to bottles this week. It’s been in secondary for two weeks now and fermentation has pretty much stopped.
I bought a bottling bucket, spygot, and some priming sugar. So I’m all ready to go…Now I just need to get it done.


I really need to find a nice secluded field for Helicopter flying. My garage is too small and the nearby Meadowbrook park is too populated. I fear I’ll lose control and end up flying it into the plethora of kids on the playground.

Any ideas?

Deadliest Catch & Cubs vs Astros

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I went up to Chicago to visit Cheese over the weekend.
We went salmon fishing and to a Cubs game.
I’ll be cooking some salmon this week and hopefully posting some recipes and pictures.

Here’s some pics from the Cubs Game.
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Vacation/Wedding

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I’m heading to Nag’s Head, NC for a week.
Cannot wait to get out of here and spend some time with some great friends, witness a buddy getting married, and spend some time with my best gal.

Of course I’ll have the camera, so there will be lots of pics.

Drake

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

A drake showed up on Josh’s whiteboard today. I had a fun time drawing him!

RC Helicopters

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

So I picked one of these up…

It’s an E-Sky Honey Bee King 2.
I’m learning, slowly, but still learning how to fly it.

Here’s a YouTube video of some of my first attempts with not so fortunate results.
I guess my forethought of buying extra rotors was a good idea…

Hops!

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now and finally am getting around to it.
Thanks to donated land from Jim, I have a place to grow some Hops.

I decided on planting two varieties. Willamette and Cascade.
Willamette is pretty common in homebrew recipes so it’ll be great to have an abundant supply.
Cascade is used a lot in really hoppy beers like IPAs. I enjoy IPAs and wish to brew a few of my own, so this was a natural choice.

I’ll have the rhizomes by the end of the week and will hopefully have the ground prepared for planting soon.
Once I’m pretty confident the threat of frost is over I’ll get them planted and hopefully have a decent crop by the end of the summer.

I’ll try to document my progress as much as possible with pictures and stories on here. If you’re interested and I don’t post, bug me.

Blogiversarry

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I’ve maintained this blog for 5 years now. I’m impressed.

It doesn’t get the updates it once used to, but I think I’ve been doing decent lately.

Hurray for me.

The Theory of Evolution

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I believe it was my sister that came up with this argument.
I just used it today. And it makes me proud.


Guy:
Evolution is a FACT, all of the evidence supports it.

Me:
Sorry, evolution is not a fact. The theory seems sound enough, but having bits of pieces of information doesn’t prove the theory.

Say you found a old crumbled and faded piece of parchment with four legible letters remaining. A, P, L, and E…say you even know they go in that order….Say there’s a somewhat legible letter between the A and P that looks like a P….One might say with reasonable certainty that the word that existed was APPLE. Most people would even agree. But never can you say without any shadow of doubt that the word wasn’t actually AIRPLANE or APPLAUSE. (An R can look like a P for those of you who don’t get it)

Until you have all the pieces, nothing is fact, my friend.

New Server

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

I moved my blog to a new server today.

Hopefully things will go okay with the transition.