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Friday, June 26, 2009
Poker last night was awesome. We've got some fresh meat, he's young as crap but funny, he brought Wild Pineapple to the table. (Texas hold'em, except you are dealt 3 cards, and after the flop you bet, then discard one. Invariably the one you needed). Anyway, I get dealt QQ10. The flop is 2QQ. I nearly shit myself. Slow-played it, the river came up with a K. My friend bets, I raise, he re-raises, I cap it. He apologizes and shows a pair of KINGS, the dude had a full house, kings full of queens. So sorry, my quad queens took him down in style. Anyway, I won $38 on the night, which is always fun. OOOOO! I finally got my Marine Corps license plates for my truck. Ooo-rah Devil Dogs! I totally love them, and as an added bonus, I've got probably a 2% less chance of being pulled over. Thursday, June 25, 2009
Currently I am reading James Clavell's Gai-Jin, but I wish I hadn't started it. After reading Shogun and Tai-pan, I've got 2000 pages of Clavell under my belt, and probably wasn't up for another 1200 pages. At the time I didn't have anything more pressing, but it's been a bit slow and then some of my friends posted "15 important books" lists to Facebook, making me want to read some other books. I'm 400 pages into Gai-jin though, and I know if I quit now I'm unlikely to come back and finish it like it deserves. I guess I just need to make more time to read. B put the movie "Ladder 49" in her netflix queue, it was terrible. B's sister brought her puppy "Sugar" over with them, the dog is too young to be left at home. I was wrestling with her last night and she was chomping away at my hands with those super-sharp baby teeth, so I got out some leather gloves and used those for a while, she loved it. Then I took the gloves off and just let her chew on the gloves for a while, it was funny, she'd worry at them and toss them around, probably for 15-20 minutes. Wednesday, June 24, 2009
It's almost amazing how many people are totally clueless on biking trails. It's simple, other people use the trail too, don't just stop and block the entire trail to talk. I had to take Isabel to her orthodontist appointment yesterday, we would have been on time but B gave me the old address for the Navi. Her teeth are doing great, she picked green rubber bands for the braces so she looks like she's got spinach stuck in her teeth constantly. We went to Lowes for the second load of patio pavers. 61 pavers and a dozen 50 pound sacks of paver sand. Lifting 600 pounds of sand onto a cart, taking it to the truck, loading it into the back of the truck, then loading it forward of the rear axle makes for a lot of lifting. B helped unload everything. The last trip will be the last 100 pavers, and a couple 20 pound barrels of the sticky sand to fill the cracks between pavers. Right after the kids went to bed B's sister arrived from Spokane with her kids and new puppy. Our kids leaped out of bed to play with them, it took a while for things to calm down. Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Last night the kids and I were going to go to Lowes to pick up another half ton of patio materials, but we only had one booster seat, so that plan got shot down. Instead we watched the latest episode of the Next Food Network Star, which was entertaining. When it was time for bed, B was trying to fold laundry so I went into my computer room to read for a bit, but fell asleep on the futon there and woke up at 4:30am a little confused, then went to bed. Monday, June 22, 2009
Friday night was my "book club" at the Wedgewood Ale House, fun night. They had 6 different IPAs on tap, I tried 4 of them. Saturday morning we walked over to our friend's place for brunch, it was delicious. Tons of food, massive quantities of bacon, and I balanced just enough mimosa with coffee to keep feeling perfect. After we walked home we drove to Costco for a major resupply run. Once home from that I checked my email, I had one from my renter saying the water main in the street in front of my rental house had blown, and the city had shut off water to the block and was repairing it. Uff-da. B and I went to check it out, luckily no damage to our place, then we went to Lowes to pick up 24 bags of gravel (50 pounds each) for the base layer for B's new patio. We even hauled it all up into the backyard. Still need to get ~170 pavers and 12 bags of sand. Saturday night we went to a friend's Solstice party. It was a lot of fun, but it was chilly out and I should have brought warmer clothes. A friend from back in college was there, I hadn't seen her in ~7 years. Sunday morning B made me fried eggs on garlic bread, then we packed up to go to the Father's Day beer festival at St. Edwards Park, my long-standing father's day tradition. There were plenty of great beers to taste, but my favorite was Laughing Dog Brewery's "Alpha Dog" Imperial IPA. Superb hops, both taste and smell. Thursday, June 18, 2009
Mmm, last night my brother dropped by with some birthday presents for the kids and he brought me a growler of Elysian IPA, which was delicious. B went to jazzercise while the kids and I made stir-fry yakisoba with asparagus and a half dozen eggs for protein, it looked like hell but tasted great, the kids each had seconds. We also watched this week's episode of "The Next Food Network Star" which the kids are addicted to. The problem with that series is half the contestants have zero chance, they needed to eliminate 2 per show at the start. So Seattle got a Major League Soccer team, the Seattle Sounders FC. I will never understand that sport. So far, the Sounders have played 14 games. Six of them have been a tie. You have GOT to be kidding me. A freakin' TIE?!? Who the hell wants to pay a bunch of money to see a tie? "Sorry, no winner tonight. Might as well not have gone." WTF? Wednesday, June 17, 2009
B wants to turn the terrace in the back yard into a patio. It's the southernmost part of the yard, and the neighbors behind us have a huge hedge, so there is shade and coolness there unlike the patio right outside our back door. We can't afford to do the whole thing at once, so the plan is to do it in ~8' sections. We went to Lowes to pick out some pavers that will match the terrace wall, and price the materials. We settled on some 7"x9"x2 3/8" rough-tumbled pavers, and looking up that concrete weighs 150lbs per cubic foot I figured out that they weigh 13 pounds each, and we need like 2000 pounds of them for the first section, plus 36 bags of gravel. Ugh. That's going to be a few trips in the truck. They also had full bags of potting soil with holes in them inside clear plastic bags, labeled $1. Crickey, I'll take potting soil that's got a hole in the bag for 90% off. We also got a new hibiscus. |
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