Zoolander

Pretty sweet scientific name; Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

































































Believe it or not, they are watching an airplane. I like the one sitting down on the left. Total indifference.
















Bird, Bird-girl, Bird Actual.


















What a cute critter!
































I don't konw if "Shy Swamp ________" is ever a good name. Funny name though. Shy Swamp Beagle. Shy Swamp Ostrich. Shy Swamp Chimera.
















"I gotta go make some melon pie!"

Not Risotto

I was going to make risotto tonight but I forgot I used up all my carrots in my chicken soup. So expect a risotto post with instructions (from Deda)

Death Note

I started watching this Anime. It's about a bored Shinigami/Death God who drops his Death Note (book) in the human world. Boy genius Light Yagami happens upon it. Instructions read:

• The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
• This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
• If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject's name, it will happen.
• If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.
• After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

So far so good.

Mike's BBQ Food Epic Extravaganza

Food first.
For starters...
















Buffalo wings...
















...and Deviled Eggs
















There were about 6 salads on hand. I thought the blocks were mushrooms but they turned out to be mozzarella. I think I'm missing two of the salad pics. :-O
















I typically don't eat cherries. Typically...
















Tri-tip. The dark one is bloody mary marinade. The other two are... don't remember.
















Yummy grilled chicken.
















Potato Salad
















Black bean salad
















Actually some left overs from the wedding party. Hardly any were eaten and with the other foods available, who can blame them?
















Fruit Salad
















Baked beans
















Tri-tip detail
















Yummy corn bread with corn in it. Normally, corn bread is made too big and it's too much of an investment to eat the whole thing. These are perfectly sized.
















Dessert cake/pie #1 of 6. YES, SIX. This will be called awesomo-cake.
















#2 Lemon Meringue Pie
















Apple pie? #3
















#4 Pecan Pie
















#5 Chocolate Layered Cake
















#6 "Happy Birthday Kearsten" Princess Cake
















































Hostess Diane (right) and her cousin Julie make an awesome salad that I just kept eating and therefore lack photograph of.
































Dog Central
































Eat Central.
















When's the last time you saw a Moblin? I last saw one last year at Mike's place.
































Our Host Mike with Dave's dog Tre.
















The fog coming down the mountain/hill at night was pretty thick. Not only was visibility down to about 20 feet, but we had to watch out for cows on the road.

Family, Scott & Crystal

First I meet with my Grandma, Uncle Charles, and my Grandma's sister & sister's husband
















After dinner, I was charged to drive my grandma and uncle back to where they were staying.
















Where we can white tree ear and watermelon. According to Dr. Loh (which one?!?), the one who is an actual medical doctor, white tree ear is very good for your throat (clears it up) and your skin while black tree ear promotes micro-circulation. Good for vascular diseases.
















Next, I had to take off for a wedding party for Scott and Crystal at the Edinburgh Castle Pub. They got a private room right behind that window.
















Master Ed arranged all of the festivities.





















Our newlyweds. Congrats!
















































Slippers of Ankle Horrors
















At some point in the night, Casey started throwing pretzels. At least he didn't invite strangers in...





















So congrats to Scott and Crystal and while this is the end of the blog, one other thing happened. Someone broke into my car on Post and Franklin. Luckily they didn't break a window. All that was taken was an ipod car charger so no big deal. It was pretty surreal in that when I opened the door (which they were kind enough to leave unlocked) I was thinking to myself "Wow, my car is messy" but then I noticed the drivers seat was tilt back all the way which I remembered car thieves do from all of Jimmy's unfortunate break-in stories and then realized "Hey! I didn't make this mess!" As I cleaned my car, I found all sorts of things I had no idea were in there. There was one New Years Party flyer in there. From 2004! A strange bag with strawberry powder. Oh, he did somehow break my ashtray which I find incredibly strange. I can only imagine he did it out of frustration finding very little to take but those guys should be used to that. He did leave my 1 million lumen hand light which I'm just gonna guess was too bulky and/or heavy to take. Oh well, I will be more hesitant to park in that notorious neighbourhood so late again. Especially since they took something. From Jimmy's experiences, it seems like they remember your car if there was loot to be found and will make revisits for easy finds. I wonder if a fake blinking L.E.D. would have scared them off. The two Lexus' parked near me seemed untouched and you'd think they would definitely have stuff to take in those.