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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Yesterday we gave the kids their choice of going to see the WSU cougar football game at Qwest field or going up to the Evergreen State Fair up in Monroe. They choose the fair, of course, and we had a blast. The kids are still skittish about rides, but less so than last year, we ate a ton of junky fair food, saw some big pigs, and had a great time. Uff, I did this fast-spinny hang glider ride with Isabel where you lie down and get spun in a big circle... Ugga. I was still a bit dizzy from it like 8 hours later. I'd make for a shitty astronaut. After we got home we had a big slab of salmon from El Parquito and B thought it was too big for a dinner, but those kids can pack away nearly a pound of salmon apiece. We didn't get home in time for the brown-sugar bourbon marinade so Harry didn't get his bourbon. B's sister Judy came over to babysit so we could go to our Husky football party. Very fun party, but man that game was grim. 14-10 at the half, and we went 30-0 in the second half. We got absolutely NOWHERE on the ground, even with our "veteran" offensive line. I'm predicting this season is going to royally suck, and Ty is going to get fired. I just don't understand why we can consistently hold our own for half a game and then get our asses trounced in the second half every frickin' time. Glub only knows who our new coach will be. My prayer is Holmgren decides not to retire and Jim Mora Jr takes over the Huskies. That's not likely. Saturday, August 30, 2008
Oh yeah. El Parquito gave us a piece of salmon the other day, and we're going to cook it for dinner tonight. B usually either makes a brown-sugar bourbon glaze, or a mayonaise-parmesean crust. She asked the kids what they wanted, Isabel wanted both, Harry was chanting "I want Bourbon! I want Bourbon! I want Bourbon!" Lovely quote for a 6 year old. Good instincts on that kid.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Today marks the start of yet another Husky Football season! Go Dawgs! Hmmm, I wonder at what age is is appropriate to introduce my kids to "Beavis and Butthead"? Thursday marked my 100th day owning Wii Fit. (It tells me every day). In that span, I used it 71 times, averaging 31 minutes per. Not too shabby. I feel better, that's for sure. Most of the exercises get easier as time goes on, but despite doing pushups and side planks almost every time, they still kick my ass. Not quite as bad as originally, but not the level of improvement I get from my legs. Yesterday I went to see a preseason Seahawks game against the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders are about my 2nd favorite team, so it was a lot of fun. We got to park in the team parking lot because our tickets were from my friend's brother-in-law, one of the team doctors. We also got passes to go to the Club Level, I got to see how the wealthier live. The parking lot floor was polished, making the tires squeak something fierce. The game itself kicked ass, even if it was preseason and didn't count. Seneca Wallace was awesome, throwing pass after pass. Well, either he was awesome or the Raiders D sucks massive donkey schlong. The whole game I was yelling for the Raiders to put in Tui. Finally, in the 4th quarter I got my wish, and oh my, I got to see Marques Tuiosasopo throw a touchdown pass, the first time I've seen that since the 2000 Rose Bowl. WOOOOOOOOO! I took a picture, but the iPhone camera sucks the aforementioned massive donkey schlong, and can't zoom, so you can barely see that football is happening, let alone the fact that Tui was out there. Go Huskies! I sure hope they don't suck against the Ducks tonight. Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Last weekend we went camping with the gang up to Silver Fir campground on the road up to the Mount Baker ski area. Very nice campground, we went there last seven years ago when Isabel was just 8 weeks old. The best part about that campground is that it has only 18 sites, and they are spaced decently far apart. We basically didn't have to deal with anybody, which was very nice. All weekend long I'd crack open a beer (Deschutes Obsidian Stout, Henry's IPA, or Session Lager) and say "Ahhh, nothing like the first beer of the day". For some reason that got annoying after the 5th or 6th beer of the day. Last week my brother-in-law and I got one of the stair stringers cut. It sucks ass trying to figure out the cuts for one, and I had to re-do it once I figured out I had to count out the height of the top step. Gah! Stupid inch and a half! Anyway, I figured it out and we got one cut before it started to rain. I was wearing eye protection but still managed to get a chunk of sawdust or something in my eye. Man oh man that sucked. We eventually got it washed out with saline but my eye hurt all that evening and was sore the entire next day. Yesterday we took Harry in and got his short cast cut off. WoooO! His legs are so skinny that you can't see one being skinnier than the other. When I got home from work I got him to take 3 steps on it. The ankle is still sore from being in one position for six weeks, I figure it'll take him a few days to get the hang of things. Thommer managed to leave his keys at our investing drinking club last night. D'oh! I wasn't going to drive him back down to Auburn for them, but I drove him home for his spare set and back to his car. Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Harry's surgeries went well. It took him over 3 hours to recover from the anethesia, but he's had trouble with that before. He's doing super now. Friday B's sister arrived with her husband and two kids. It being the 3rd friday of the month, I immediately grabbed my brother-in-law and hauled him off to the Wedgewood Ale house for my "book club" aka drinking club. We got there a little after 5pm and were there until around 11pm, laughing our asses off. Great evening. Note to self: Downward Facing Dog is a bad idea when hung over. Dizzy and almost hurling is bad. After doing Wii Fit on Saturday I took my 5-year-old nephew on a six mile trail-a-bike ride. He'd been wanted to go since he saw Harry go on one earlier in the year. Afterwards I went to Dunn Lumber to get more supplies for the shed/fort. A pair of 12' 2x12s for stair stringers, some 2x6s for steps, and 33 pieces of 12' by 8.25" Hardiboard lap siding to keep the weather off and make the shed look good. Sadly, I ran out of time to do anything on the shed that day. In the afternoon we drove out to Maple Valley to the home of my friend Todd from Germany's parents. I hadn't been out to his homestead in 20 years, and it was nice to see that at least that neighborhood is still 5 acre lots and not all strip malls and subdivisions. Todd's brother-in-law Andrew is a Brit ex-pat and he had decreed that we move Guy Fawkes day up from November to August so we had an excuse to grill, drink beer, and shoot off fireworks. Super fun. I haven't fired off home-sized fireworks in a long time. Sunday my brother-in-law and I got up early and got the entire shed sided. Oh my gosh. I learned about a new tool that I had never heard of before. The Palm Nailer. Hooks up to the compressor, hold it in your hand and feed in a single nail. ANY kind of nail, and it will drive it wherever you want. SO freakin' awesome. If I'd known about it last year it would have saved me several hours of hammering. I have the Bostitch PN100K Impact Nailer, i don't know anything about how it compares to others like it but oh man is it one kick-ass tool. No way would we have finished siding the shed in a day without one. Wednesday, August 13, 2008
This morning we're taking Harry in for service. He's getting two minor surgeries done, one to close his bellybutton hernia which never fully sealed, and the second to re-remove his adnoids. Gotta run, will report more later. Saturday, August 09, 2008
Harry went to the ortho doc yesterday and got his green full-length cast cut off and replaced with a short (below the knee) red cast. He's pretty excited, but after being immobalized in a cast for 3 weeks his knee is pretty stiff. We've been working on stretching it gradually. Today marks the 60th time I've done Wii Fit, in roughly 80 days. It's still pretty fun. I have a tough time getting into it for the first 10 minutes or so, but after another 10 I don't want to stop. I feel like I'm in much better shape as well. I'd still love to replace the stock Wii Fit software with one that was more geared to doing a workout instead of being a showcase. (many many fewer button presses required).
Well, that was fun. We had 13 guys and 2 gals show up for the tourney. All seemed to enjoy themselves. Since we only had 15 we only used 2 tables. The first hour you can rebuy back to your $100 worth of chips for $15. (So at $98 you can rebuy for $2, or if you are busted out get the whole $100, but you can't just rebuy to double your stake). I was doing alternately poorly and pretty well, tracking with my play, mostly. At one point I had a ton of chips, was dealer, and had A6 offsuit. Flop was A62 clubs. Slow-played it, but was all-in by the river. NotMe next to me had the flush to take me down. Honestly, I should have overlooked the beautiful two pair and seen the flush and dumped my hand. Bad play. That put me *way* down, so in the last hand before the rebuy period ended I went all-in preflop. (I had about $40, so was going to rebuy anyway). Two others were in on that, with a side pot between them. Flop had 2 aces, and NotMe held an ace. Runner-runner diamonds, and my Q-6 diamonds-whatever takes the hand down with flush. The other guy in the side pot takes second with his lower diamond, and NotMe's 3 Aces gets busted. I made some bad decisions in the second hour and didn't get lucky, so I got busted out early, I think 3rd in the tourney. It ended up lasting until about 1am. One of the girls took 3rd, winning $40. (4th place got his buy-in back, $20. First took 60% of what was left after 4th got his, $240, and 2nd got 30%, or $120). After I busted out I went with the other losers into the family room to play some Rock Band. WOPR and NotMe's little brother Ty had never played, but he plays bass in his own band so he figured it couldn't be as much fun as real life. He was instantly addicted, saying "8am tomorrow I am going to go buy my own." LOL. We all had a good time. Friday, August 08, 2008
Good glub. Last night instead of regular dealer's choice poker, we had some practice fast no-limit texas hold'em tournements. Buy-in was $5, you got $200 in chips, blind structures was 5/10, 20/40, 50/100, 100/200, with it advancing every 8 minutes. Each took about 30 minutes to resolve, we got 5 of them done. First place took 80%, or $20, second place got his five bucks back. I seriously was the poster child for bad beats. Out of 5 rounds, I got beat out on a river card 5 times. Some of those were runner-runner beats as well. Gah! Well, hopefully I used up my share of bad luck before tonight's test. (Not that I believe in luck...) Thursday, August 07, 2008
Last weekend I had my annual two Seafair/Blue Angels parties. On Saturday I tried to help play "kill the keg" (Full Sail Amber), we failed since all the real drinkers left by 5pm. B left at 1pm to take Peggy & Isabel home and take Harry to the wedding of his kindergarten teacher. She wanted her class to sing "You Are My Sunshine" at her wedding. Afterwards B took Harry home and rejoined me at the party. We were there until about 10pm, with me and the host Mike both drunk as monks with skunks. (Skunked monks get very drunk methunk) Anyway, I was feeling a little "not so fresh" on sunday, luckily I'd saved a piece of the sausage/egg loaf that I'd served thursday morning for breakfast. The party on sunday had a keg of Elysian Immortal IPA. My first pint didn't taste very good, which goes to show you how hung over I was. Sheesh. By the end of the afternoon I was feeling fine, however. I went to go see a specialist about my knee. My friend's brother-in-law is one of the Seahawk team doctors and a super cool guy, and when asked for a referral he said, "Duh, see me." so I went to see him. X-rays showed nothing wrong, or even anything to show why my right knee never has problems but my left knee does. He sent to me physical therapy, which I did today. The physical therapist's first suggestion was that I take my bike to a physical therapist who specializes in fitting bikes for people with problems, which I should have thought of a long time ago. She also gave me a bunch of exercises and stretches to do, several of which are pretty painful. On the way home I walked through the scifi section of the U Bookstore, where I see The Watchman comic was prominently displayed, several stacks of them. Those bastards had zero in stock a few months ago when I was looking for it. (I did not know the movie was coming out, I just had friends say I had to read it.) Last night we took the kids to U Village mall for their free wednesday night summer concert series. This time it was The Paperboys, and they were great. While we were there B ran into our neighbors and their 15 month old boy, so they came to sit with us. Isabel danced, the women talked, and he and I started talking iPhone since we were sitting right next to the Apple Store. Turns out we both have them. Talk devolved into jailbreaking iPhones, ssh clients, terminal emulation, useful unix utilities, etc. It was nice to have someone to speak Nerd to. They'r pretty cool neighbors. Tomorrow night I'm hosting a no-limit Texas Hold'em Tourney. Starts around 8pm, if you're going to be in Seattle and are interested, let me know. All are welcome. Saturday, August 02, 2008
My friend Todd brought me two bottles of german single malt whiskey. Slyrs and Blaue Maus. The Slyrs had the most unique nose, it was tough to figure out because it was such a non-whiskey scent, but we finally nailed it as smelling like chicken bouillon. Very strange. Not great, but almost made me want to make some bouillon with vodka. Heh. |
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