Weekend Wrapup
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tamoore
G33K
Thursday: Got up at 1
0 AM to drive back home from Alabama: 14-1/2 hours on the road, including a stop for lunch. Thursday night, New Years Eve party at my mom and dad's place. Managed to stay up until 10 am for the 24 hour-in-a-row thing...
Friday: Didn't do shit. Played PS3 all day.
Saturday: Didn't do shit until 20, made a feast for the family of red hot chicken wings, meat balls, shrimp with homemade cocktail sauce, pizza rolls, stuffed pastries and cheese/crackers, etc. Then we played Mind Trap, Uno Attack, and several games on the WII.
Sunday: Didn't do shit. Played PS3.
0 AM to drive back home from Alabama: 14-1/2 hours on the road, including a stop for lunch. Thursday night, New Years Eve party at my mom and dad's place. Managed to stay up until 10 am for the 24 hour-in-a-row thing...Friday: Didn't do shit. Played PS3 all day.
Saturday: Didn't do shit until 2
0, made a feast for the family of red hot chicken wings, meat balls, shrimp with homemade cocktail sauce, pizza rolls, stuffed pastries and cheese/crackers, etc. Then we played Mind Trap, Uno Attack, and several games on the WII.Sunday: Didn't do shit. Played PS3.
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Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
Let's see:
Thursday: got off of work at 30, did grocery shopping, then took it easy and watched the ball drop. Cringed at Dick Clark.
Friday: Set the DVR to record the Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy. Wrote 2 new songs and new lyrics for two traditional tunes. Watched some of the TZ episodes. Did a lot of reading; a book by a Blacklist refugee on her family's experiences in Mexico and working around the blacklist. My mother-in-law came over for a while.
Saturday: Snow. Cancelled my two Saturday clients. We took down the Christmas tree since it was shedding needles like crazy. Watched some more TZ and did some more reading.
Sunday: More snow.
It finally stopped enough to allow the wife and I to drive to West Springfield to eat and do some shopping. More reading and more TZ. 
Thursday: got off of work at 3
0, did grocery shopping, then took it easy and watched the ball drop. Cringed at Dick Clark. Friday: Set the DVR to record the Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy. Wrote 2 new songs and new lyrics for two traditional tunes. Watched some of the TZ episodes. Did a lot of reading; a book by a Blacklist refugee on her family's experiences in Mexico and working around the blacklist. My mother-in-law came over for a while.
Saturday: Snow. Cancelled my two Saturday clients. We took down the Christmas tree since it was shedding needles like crazy. Watched some more TZ and did some more reading.
Sunday: More snow.
It finally stopped enough to allow the wife and I to drive to West Springfield to eat and do some shopping. More reading and more TZ. 
Johnny N.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
New Year's Eve at a friends house. He made Paella and steak. It was family friendly so the whole family was able to go. Very nice.
New Year's Day was kind of overcast and crappy so we decided to have a big cookout on Saturday instead. We made ribs, chicken and sausage. It is the first time we have done ribs on my new smoker and I was very happy with how they turned out.
After dinner, we fired up our newly acquired fire bowls which was nice. Then we started rounding up Christmas trees from around the neighborhood and burned those.
I have pics of the ribs somewhere. I'll try to get them in the food forum later.
New Year's Day was kind of overcast and crappy so we decided to have a big cookout on Saturday instead. We made ribs, chicken and sausage. It is the first time we have done ribs on my new smoker and I was very happy with how they turned out.
After dinner, we fired up our newly acquired fire bowls which was nice. Then we started rounding up Christmas trees from around the neighborhood and burned those.
I have pics of the ribs somewhere. I'll try to get them in the food forum later.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
thursday: hung at friend's place. stumbled home in the snow.
friday: major hangover. slept most of the day.
saturday: lessons. went for thai food at a place in Woodside. we had a reservation and still had to wait a half hour. the place was totally jammed. it was like eating in a subway car. amazing food though. just have to go back on a weeknight.
sunday: groceries. brunch (i had peanut butter and banana pancakes). went ice skating, which could have been a lot worse. came home and spent most of the day setting up my PRS.
i had brought my PRS and Ric to the music school last week to get set up. left them for him to work on during the week, with the strings i wanted on the guitars. first thing he did when i walked in the door on Saturday was apologize for not fixing my guitars during the week. but then he sat around all day and complained when it was 2pm that work came in the hour before and he didn't have time to do it. so he half assed it on the PRS at 3pm before i left. he never got to the Ric, so i left it there.
there's still some bubbles on the fret ends, but at least they're smoother now. so he got that right. but he torqued down the vibrato when i had it set to float, "because he does that on every guitar", and oiled the fretboard when i had told him that i had done that a week earlier. then he complained about locking tuners and how he hates them. so i had to reset the vibrato, re adjust the truss rod, and set the intonation again.
i think he's losing his mind. really. guy can't remember a single thing anybody says to him. i love him to death, and because i work for him he does all of my tech stuff for free. but i'm getting to the point where i might be willing to pay inflated NYC tech prices to have the jobs done the way i want them, and just be a regular paying customer.
it plays right now though.
friday: major hangover. slept most of the day.
saturday: lessons. went for thai food at a place in Woodside. we had a reservation and still had to wait a half hour. the place was totally jammed. it was like eating in a subway car. amazing food though. just have to go back on a weeknight.
sunday: groceries. brunch (i had peanut butter and banana pancakes). went ice skating, which could have been a lot worse. came home and spent most of the day setting up my PRS.
i had brought my PRS and Ric to the music school last week to get set up. left them for him to work on during the week, with the strings i wanted on the guitars. first thing he did when i walked in the door on Saturday was apologize for not fixing my guitars during the week. but then he sat around all day and complained when it was 2pm that work came in the hour before and he didn't have time to do it. so he half assed it on the PRS at 3pm before i left. he never got to the Ric, so i left it there.
there's still some bubbles on the fret ends, but at least they're smoother now. so he got that right. but he torqued down the vibrato when i had it set to float, "because he does that on every guitar", and oiled the fretboard when i had told him that i had done that a week earlier. then he complained about locking tuners and how he hates them. so i had to reset the vibrato, re adjust the truss rod, and set the intonation again.
i think he's losing his mind. really. guy can't remember a single thing anybody says to him. i love him to death, and because i work for him he does all of my tech stuff for free. but i'm getting to the point where i might be willing to pay inflated NYC tech prices to have the jobs done the way i want them, and just be a regular paying customer.
it plays right now though.
I bet the guys who work for me say the same thing
We hung out at home mostly this weekend. New Years Eve was spent at home sleeping on the couch.
New years day we had dinner at the inlaws....GIGANTIC crab legs:
I think my brother in law is happier about them than I am
Saturday I was back at work and then we hung out in the afternoon/evening.
Sunday we went to see the Rose Bowl Parade Floats in Passadena...here's a pic for our Ohio forumites:
alexslashaxel88
Useless without serious drugs
Friday - Bummed around the house. Finished reading The Road and started The Men Who Stare at Goats. Went Geocaching at night for a bit.
Saturday - Bummed it around the house and read. Made shrimp enchiladas.
Sunday - Went to Carbon Canyon Regional Park and walked over to the Redwood reserve they have in the back of the park. Relaxed under a tree and read for a bit. Went to Ikea and had lunch/desert/drink for both me and my woman for $9 and bought a new book shelf. Put that book shelf together, read and passed out.
Slow weekend.
Saturday - Bummed it around the house and read. Made shrimp enchiladas.
Sunday - Went to Carbon Canyon Regional Park and walked over to the Redwood reserve they have in the back of the park. Relaxed under a tree and read for a bit. Went to Ikea and had lunch/desert/drink for both me and my woman for $9 and bought a new book shelf. Put that book shelf together, read and passed out.
Slow weekend.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Thursday - Stayed home and really didn't do much of anything.
Friday - Ran errands all day, screwed around all evening.
Saturday - Had to take #1 son to the airport to jet back to LAX (and then on to 29 Palms). He probably won't be home for at least a year. That is going to be very hard....
Sunday - All three at home kids were in a skit at church that my #2 son directed and co-choreographed. He adapted it from something he saw on YouTube and the youth group at our church preformed it. It rocked! Once it is officially posted on YouTube I'll post a link here.
Friday - Ran errands all day, screwed around all evening.
Saturday - Had to take #1 son to the airport to jet back to LAX (and then on to 29 Palms). He probably won't be home for at least a year. That is going to be very hard....
Sunday - All three at home kids were in a skit at church that my #2 son directed and co-choreographed. He adapted it from something he saw on YouTube and the youth group at our church preformed it. It rocked! Once it is officially posted on YouTube I'll post a link here.
12Pack
Dyslexic b00n
Dew Knot Hump
Sausager
I finished that last week, what a depressing book.
I mainly did a bunch of chores this weekend, took down the xmas tree, took it to the recycling center, played some guitar, made a footrest for my wifes desk, etc, etc. In other words, a bunch of boring shit.
The "highlight" of my weekend was realizing I needed gas on the way back from recycling the tree and when I pulled in some clown had left his car unattended and gas was flowing from his car like a waterfall. So I pulled in parked and ran in shouting "gas is pouring out of that car."
Good nothing blew up, I'd be a dead hero.
So your brother-in-law gave ya crabs over the weekend.....
Actually it was my Mother-n-law if you're going to go that route
alexslashaxel88
Useless without serious drugs
Ya, really. I don't even know what kept me reading it.
Jeremy
Also no borders.
Thursday: Drank way too much, played Rock Band with a bunch of people we had over for NYE. According to the game (and the guests), I'm a better singer than I give myself credit for. Also newly discovered: I am not a drummer. Not at all.
Friday: Recovered from Thursday. As an added bonus, my wife somehow wound up with a corneal abrasion, so I got to run her around trying to get her seen by a doctor for that.
Saturday & Sunday: Ran wife around more for eye thing. My parents came into town, so the kids got some Grandma time, I got some time to read and play guitar and my wife got time to try to treat her eye. Had a couple of decent meals with my family and relaxed a bit.
Friday: Recovered from Thursday. As an added bonus, my wife somehow wound up with a corneal abrasion, so I got to run her around trying to get her seen by a doctor for that.
Saturday & Sunday: Ran wife around more for eye thing. My parents came into town, so the kids got some Grandma time, I got some time to read and play guitar and my wife got time to try to treat her eye. Had a couple of decent meals with my family and relaxed a bit.
yabba
Weird Pick Butt Person
drove up to big bear thursday afternoon, ate and drank for about 7 hours straight, went to bed around 4; slept in the next day; got up, ate more, played some games. lather, rinse, repeat. didn't make it to the slopes at all. came back saturday night; caught up on work stuff to get back into the swing of things yesterday.
I'm sitting in the juror waiting room at the criminal court downtown now, crossing my fingers that I don't get called/assigned to a trial this afternoon.
I live ~ 1/2 a block from the parade route, but last year is the first (and only) year I've ever seen the parade. Not really my thing, but the floats ARE impressive..
I'm sitting in the juror waiting room at the criminal court downtown now, crossing my fingers that I don't get called/assigned to a trial this afternoon.
I live ~ 1/2 a block from the parade route, but last year is the first (and only) year I've ever seen the parade. Not really my thing, but the floats ARE impressive..
I'm not to excited by it either, but my son got a kick out of seeing the floats in person after watching the parade and also seeing the episode of "Dirty Jobs" where they dismantled them....
instantsteve
Glowing Cloud
Friday: Helped wife move her Photography studio to a new location (it is also the office for my tiny private practice). Car died. Friend with jumper cables tried to help me out and made his own car die (we goofed). Waited in cold for AAA to start both of us. Drove back to Muskegon because I was on call at the prison (I am a prison psychologist--mock away!)
Saturday: Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a suicide gesture. Assessed him and did management paperwork. Went to Walmart and got new battery installed in car. Went to apartment and started preparing beans for slow cooker. Played acoustic guitar and got a more than normal amount of joy from it. Went to bed.
Sunday: Morning--put beans and ingredients in the slow cooker. Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a much more serious suicide attempt. Assessed him and had him transferred for emergency psychiatric stabilization at another facility. Went home. Opened door, inhaled aroma of beans. Did laundry. Ate dinner. Played guitar. Went to bed!
Saturday: Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a suicide gesture. Assessed him and did management paperwork. Went to Walmart and got new battery installed in car. Went to apartment and started preparing beans for slow cooker. Played acoustic guitar and got a more than normal amount of joy from it. Went to bed.
Sunday: Morning--put beans and ingredients in the slow cooker. Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a much more serious suicide attempt. Assessed him and had him transferred for emergency psychiatric stabilization at another facility. Went home. Opened door, inhaled aroma of beans. Did laundry. Ate dinner. Played guitar. Went to bed!
Friday: Helped wife move her Photography studio to a new location (it is also the office for my tiny private practice). Car died. Friend with jumper cables tried to help me out and made his own car die (we goofed). Waited in cold for AAA to start both of us. Drove back to Muskegon because I was on call at the prison (I am a prison psychologist--mock away!)
Saturday: Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a suicide gesture. Assessed him and did management paperwork. Went to Walmart and got new battery installed in car. Went to apartment and started preparing beans for slow cooker. Played acoustic guitar and got a more than normal amount of joy from it. Went to bed.
Sunday: Morning--put beans and ingredients in the slow cooker. Called in to prison and found out an inmate had made a much more serious suicide attempt. Assessed him and had him transferred for emergency psychiatric stabilization at another facility. Went home. Opened door, inhaled aroma of beans. Did laundry. Ate dinner. Played guitar. Went to bed!
I'm going to remember not to be stressed about my job from now on