(Please let me know if you see anything screwy on these pages either
in the way they are displaying, or links or grammar or whatever. I am
hurrying through them so I might miss some things)
I just remembered something from yesterday. We were at a liquor store
getting something for Nick's recipe. There on the shelf was a bottle of
Sam Adams. It was more like a genie bottle and was made of copper. Apparently
this $100 beer is 50 proof. It was bizarre. I am rather confident that
anything that high in alcohol content is no longer beer. Oh well. Someday
perhaps someone with more money then they know what to do with, will buy
two of them and be full after the first. I will then steal the second
beer from them and tell them that Nick took it.
Today is Sunday. Oddly
I got out of bed first. Very rare. Though I suppose I was
the
only
one
that
took
a
nap
yesterday.
Jess
has
been
baking
a cake for tonite. A gingerbread/Guinness cake! It smells very tasty.
As far as the outside world goes, it's in the 50's. Which is nice.
But tonite it is supposed to get super cold, and rain/snow etc etc. Hopefully
this won't screw up my flight in the morning. I'll just have to wait
and see.
We have been listening to a new public radio station. You should check
it out. Go to MPR (not NPR). You can
click on the links on the right under 'The Current'. I think it is quite
good. Today for lunch we are going to a place that has burgers injected
with cheese. Nick says they are tasty, but potentially a burning hazard.
I will give you the full report when I return. I am sure that you have
been waiting anxiously for ever little bit of info I am writing up. So
I will try to hurry.
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Matt's... Seems like a safe enough place. Well
for the most part it is. It was surprisingly full for a sunday
afternoon. Just a little
hole in the wall type place. With super tasty food and pop.
Nick
and I both ordered a 'Jucy Lucy.' The concept is simple. Make
two burgers,
slap
some cheese in the middle and cook it up so that the scalding
cheese is waiting inside. Luckily we ordered some fries as well.
Nick showed
me the trick of using the fries to poke a hole in them so that
we could speed up the cooling process a bit. It worked out well.
With
only some minor sticky fingers, Lucy was easily conquered, as
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We came home to the horrid horrid smell
of Guinness gingerbread cake, and key lime pie. I will do my
best to make sure that no one has to eat any of it. I often have
to make sacrifices to eat food such as this that has gone bad. Much
like throwing oneself on a grenade, it is up to brave people like
myself to protect others from the tasty tasty... um.. wait no I mean
horrible doom that would surely await them.
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What the heck??? I think I just saw a pimp walk
by. That was weird.
We just wandered around for a bit outside. Walked up
to the lake through lots of puddles from the melting ice. I am
hoping that they
are not counting all the puddles in with the 10,000 lakes. That
is just cheating. I will have to take it up with the local chamber
of
commerce.
We also saw a pair of strange houses. The first was a very
was a baffling color combination. The second was.. well you can
see for your self. It was just plain baffling. I commented on how
I didn't
know how someone could live in a house like that and not go crazy.
Even if I was already crazy, I think I would change to a new
kind of crazy. Either that or start capturing children and fattening
them up so that I could cook them. I suppose that is kind of crazy
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Nick is back to making his big sausage beany thing. It smells quite
good. I am going to go find something to munch on and build up some energy
that I just burned of from that walk.
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Sunday night was Cassoulet and cake night. Jess's sister
and one of her oldest friends came over to share. I didn't
take my usual huge portion of the food when I first went up.
Not quite sure why though, but it was a good thing I did. The
dinner in combination with cake and ice cream stuffed us all.
I find it odd that a meal of sausage, beans, chicken, tomatoes,
artichokes, cheese, bread, Guinness, gingerbread, ice cream
and nuts would fill someone. Jess's Gingerbread and Guinness
cake, had one layer for each decade. The candles were so bright
that I didn't need the flash. Even in his old age, Nick did
quite well blowing the candles out. The last picture links
to a Quicktime movie of his efforts.
After dinner Nick brought out his tv and we watched
'Arrested Development' on
Fox.
It was pretty
funny but I have a tough time with the format of the show.
But everyone else was quite a fan. Nick,
Jess and I played cards for a bit. It was a good way to wind
down and digest a bit more before bed time. Before I
went to sleep I checked on my flight and packed everything up.
Everything fit in a bit tighter than before since I decided to
toss my coat into the bag. 50 degrees today, hopefully it will
be nice tomorrow, though they are calling for some very chilly
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