Race

For those of you not living here in NAS-Carolina, today is the first of Charlotte's big races. The All-star race. Of course I have to support my guy...

What you probably can't tell is that not only am I wearing my Matt Kenseth t-shirt, but I'm also wearing my NASCAR scrub pants.

Feast

Last week my friend Dave bought a Smoker/Grill and each week we've been smoking various meat products.

This week was a whole chicken and some drumsticks...

As you can see there was quite a bit of carnage:

We ate so much food... you know that sigh you make when you've had your fill but you don't want to stop eating? I made that sound at least five or six times. I just couldn't stop. Hooray for food comas.

I wish I had remembered to take pictures of last week. The inaugural smoking was pork "picnic." I'm still not entirely sure what part of the pig that is, but I do konw that it was super tasty. Last week was also Chorizo sausages. Mmmmm pork products...

Make popsicles!

The backstory:
I think when Amy decides to buy me a gift she thinks secretly thinks* I'm 8 years old. That's totally ok though, because then I end up with awesome if slightly bizarre gifts... like rocket shaped popsicle molds.

I had totally lost track of these when I moved and was super excited to re-find them last week. So here's they are, loaded with Pomegranate Limeade. Now I just need to have the patience to wait 4 to 6 hours to taste test them.

*Clearly I am still 8 years old, notice the Eggo waffles and two different kinds of chicken nuggets in my freezer.

Awesome and Awesomer

Two Random things...

I see these boxes at work all the time... Aren't you glad that you don't live in Hicksville? Literally.

My friend Vanessa made me a knit hat with the Brewers logo on it!

When's the last time all you crafty people made me anything this cool? Huh? Huh?

The story behind this is that my friend from work, Dave, his wife, Vanessa, was recently laid off. In her free time now she's apparently been knitting up a storm. One day at the store he was on the phone with her and joked that she should knit me something. I suggested a Brewers hat. Less than a week later I was at their house for the inaugural use of Dave's new Smoker/Grill and there it was! My awesome new hat!

This is the race car that has become the biggest hinderance to me going to bed early. The guys who live down stairs have been working on it for a while now and when they run the engine the entire building shakes.

They actually aren't too bad about it, they've never been loud after 9pm. It's just unfortunate that I was trying to go to bed at 730 or 8 so I could work at 5am everyday.

Also, notice it's painted to match my favorite NASCAR driver. (Feel free to mock, but you can't live here without at least having a favorite to cheer for)

Matt Kenseth

aha!

I've been a Flowing Data fan for a while now, but I recently came across this on their site:


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

I know that the whole financial mess we're in is more complicated than this, but it's a decent summary and easy to follow.

Friday night traffic is ridiculous no matter where you live.

After a certain age it should just be assumed that you don't need a straw.

speculate

So I spent most of my day running errands.. and then I saw this!

Blue bunny truck! Woohoo!

Also, while playing DVR catch up today I watched this new NBC show Kings. It wasn't too bad, although I'm not sure I'll record it every week. One of the things that grabbed my attention was that everyone in the government wore pins on their labels. Each one was fairly generic but then I spotted this one:


Does it look familiar? The Umbrella Corporation???!?!!?

Yes, I know, it's likely all a big coincidence. But if they found a way to tie it all together... I would definitely watch that show!

Aah... Guiness on St Patricks Day.

Free beer? For being so awesome?

bring the cheese and crackers!

It would be nice to pretend like this isn't the kind of thing that makes Wisconsin Wisconsin. But that would be a lie. I love my home state.