Talk about the Weather/You were in my favorite band


I want it to be cold. Go away heat. I have a batch of brew to make!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember that band Rocketship? Someone made me a CD with a ton of mp3s on it. One of the tracks on it is a live rendition of "Naomi and Me". It just popped up on my iPod. What a friggin' great song. Ahh.... the good ol' days when Sacramento was full of melody.

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So last night my dad calls to say "hi". This time he forgoes the details of his dating life that always goes something to the effect of "...I'm dating this Jewish woman who I met at the gym [in the retirement community where I live], but she's too old for me...." or "...I'm seeing this woman, who is Jewish, but she complains all the time..." or "...I'm dating this lady, but she's Catholic...." You get the picture. Excuse after excuses.

Anyhow...

So last night he didn't mention any of his love life to me (thank goodness) but instead he told me about one of my uncles (his brother), who had to get 20 prostate stones removed. Prostate stones? 20?!?!? wtf man! I never even heard of such a thing, but this isn't the part that bothered me. I can stomach body part talk.

After hearing the nitty gritty details of the operation, and being informed that my uncle would be fine, I was trying to speculate what could have cause such an ailment while talking to my dad. His diet? heredity? weight? Then out of the blue my dad says "well, my brother is a big man..." and he is. He's probably the fattest relative I know of...and then my dad went on... "..maybe I shouldn't discus this with the family, but my brother does have a very large penis...it's huge...so maybe that could have caused complications..." ok ok dad. enough!!

The last thing I need to think about is my obese, more-than-somewhat weirdo uncle's wiener... and to beat you smart allec readers to the punch, no, nothing weird ever happened between my uncle and I. I barely even saw the guy when growing up.

OK. time to stop now. Have a good weekend!

Sometimes you feel like a noob...




So I spent all this time and money (and loss of sleep and social activity) to get a Computer Science Degree from UC Davis, got a job with a large technology company, and have been on a number of complex projects doing a number of complex things, for over 6 years...yet I can't get my niece's printer to work.

Homemade Bagels

Homemade bagels
Originally uploaded by bugbiteme

So after moaning and groaning about bagels, I decided that if biblical genealogy is true, then, as a direct descendant of Moses (played by Charlton Heston in the movie "The Ten Commandments") I should have innate ability to make my own. As you can see from the picture displayed in this post, my hunch proved to be correct. I was able to feed 7 out of 12 tribes (tribes of: Ander, Hawley, Hull, Raske, Beardsly, Baker, Keller, and of course Levites...the remaining five tribes were no-shows) after doubling the recipe.

I going to do my best to make them on a weekly basis so I can stick it to the man (they really aren't that hard to make if you have a Kitchen-Aid mixer with the hook attachment).

Coming up: "Making my own cream cheese....the kind Abraham used to eat back in the day while herding sheep in the land of Cannan..."