Month: July 2018

I was eleven. I was watching a documentary about the Cuban Missle Crisis with my father. That sounds impressive for a tween, but it was 1973 and there was only one television. Since I was almost as quiet as Dad, I was allowed to stay in the room. The program was relating how Kennedy cut…

I was down in the basement, wondering what I should paint next. If you are oil painting and you want to paint every day, you have to have three things to work on, because every day’s work takes three days to dry. “Hey you!” said Spunky Labia, International Toe Porn Superstar. I had been painting…

So, one of the first things I did was look for a walkthrough. The king of walkthroughs is of course Bob Ross, and while I dutifully made some Happy Little Trees, I didn’t like the result. However, this walkthrough was more my style. You don’t have to wait for the paint to dry and can…

The thing I like about playing the guitar is how muscle memory will kick in and your hands can play a tune without any help from your brain. There are now about 10 tunes my hands can play on their own. Well, this year I decided to challenge myself. I wanted to play the tune…

Okay, there’s just no time for the blog when the creativity has been spewing forth from every other outlet: specifically the painting outlet, the guitar outlet, and the bathroom … outlet. Ah, the spewing that’s been going on in the bathroom. It all started with the anatomical prints we got in NOLA. They had to…

I was so pleased with how the bottom round roast turned out in the sous vide that I thought I’d do a round roast taste test. Top round, bottom round, and eye of round. Three roasts enter! One roast leaves! I carved them up into one pound chunks, bagged them, and then my 1990’s Foodsaver…