Woot!

So in my internet travels I come across a variety of websites, a great many of which aren't worth the time I spent looking at them, however there are times when I come across sites that are worth sharing.  Enter Woot!, Woot.com is a retail site of sorts.  What they do is the sell one item a day and only one item, when it's gone it's gone.  From what I've seen after a few weeks of checking in the items are usually at a pretty good price, most of the electronics are referbs, but at the price they are selling them it really doesn't matter (i.e. 37" LCD HD TV for $300, which I missed out on... dangit).  I reasearched them and found pretty good feedback about their services, however the rub is that they are strictly a seller.  If you have a problem with the merchandise 10 days down the road, your stuck dealing with a manufacturer because they don't "stand behind" products they sell.  I haven't personally bought anything from them yet, but I now check the site daily as part of my morning web check, hoping for a good deal to come my way.  Might be worth checking out especially with the holidays right around the corner.

Video of the Week

Umm.... I really have no words for this.

Couldn't Resist, I Apologize... 19 hours 22 minutes

PoW (Picture of the Week)

New Series, Intro gives you a Double Shot!

Taken by Chris Jerles... "Clark Street with a touch of lonliness" Awesome Pic, especially if you've ever seen Clark in its full alcohol fuled glory

Bar Golf 2009

Cookbook

Yesterday I finally started to get rid of my massive cooking magazine pile, which I believe had grown to about 20+ magazines and an additional smattering of loose papers and printouts.  The "plan" is to take all the tried recipes as well as some prospecitve ones and create a personal consolidated cooking binder.  I ended up with quite a pile so I'm thinking I may have a good little binder.  I just need to figure out how to organize everything an make it make sense.  So stay tuned, given my history of not finishing things I expect it to be completed in late 2012.

Great Song

Recently my Pandora station has picked up a lot of Jay Z songs from his new album  Blueprint 3, I'm not a huge rap fan but I do like to listen to it every once in a while, this album I may actually buy, lots of good stuff.  So far this is one of my favorites.

She got me....

I really debated putting this up here because it is a pretty big "burn" on me, but I keep replaying it in my head and it really was pretty good and my wife's delivery isn't usually this deadpan, there's usually a chuckle or smirk that makes her attempts pretty tranparent... but this one got me:

The backstory.... we bought new sheets the other weekend at 3B (Bed Bath & Beyond), and in the store they looked like normal sheets, upon unpackaging them we, or rather I, noticed they were abnormally "shiny" and I have a thing against shiny things... not going to even attempt to explain that because it's frankly an odd quirk and not relevant to this story.  So in the process of making the bed I was complaing about the "shine" factor of these sheets commenting on how I was going to have a hard time sleeping on these sheets.

I'm paraphrashing here the general idea of the conversations...

Ok... fast forward to Monday

Beth:  How'd you sleep?

Ben: Terrible, because of those sheets.

Her smirk gave her away that she was attempting to make fun of me about the sheets.

Fast forward again to Tuesday

Beth: What's that on your arm?

Ben: My arm? what (as I'm turning it over looking)

Beth: Yeah your arm it's almost reflective (straight faced and serious as can be)

Ben: (still searching my arms) What do you mean? Where? (still turning my arm over and over)

Beth: It's on your arm, it's almost like the sheets...

Ben: (still searchi.....) Wha....damn.... I don't even like you anymore (Ben exits stage left)

She got me...

Beer of the Month: Bud Light Golden Wheat

I consider my self a beer guy.  I like beer.  I'm not an expert by any means and there is much more that I would like to learn.  The newest attempt at a Big 3 product to crack the "craft brew" market is Bud Light Golden Wheat.  Now I had very very low expectations for this beer.  No way can a light beer formula give even the slightest bit of the flavor of a craft.  I was wrong, sort of.  First off let me say that the beer is pretty darn good.  But as I suspected it does fall a bit short on flavor, it does lack the complexity of a true craft beer without a really big, bold flavor.  Which, I think would be expected to some extent.  So, that's maybe not a truly fair comparison because after all this is a light beer formula so it's not a true apples to apples comparison, so in a comparison to Bud Light/Coor's Light/Miller Lite it's got, IMO, substantially more flavor.  It comes with a bit higher price tag, but I think it's worth it for a light beer alternative for those of us that prefer beer with a bit more flavor to it.

In terms of calories here's a breakdown:

Bud Light:  110

Bud Light Golden Wheat 118

Sam Adams Light 124

Magic Hat #9 146

What I want to test is which is better in terms of flavor... Bud Light Golden Wheat or Sam Adams Light?  4 extra calories isn't a whole lot in the scheme of things so I think that should be the true measure on this beers flavor.

So Excited...

Life Update: October in Review

I skipped a few months on this but I'm determined to get back on track here so... away we go.

Started off October in beautiful (lol) Twin Falls, Idaho.  For my college friends (James) yes it's true Idaho does exist.  I know.  I was shocked to discover this as well.  For those not in the loop on this, one night when we were up later than we should have been my friends and I realized we knew no one from Idaho, we could think of aquantances from nearly every state but Idaho, thus the theory evolved that Idaho did not really exist.  That's logical?  Right?

Ocotober also brought us Man Chili.  Man Chili was a vegitarians worst nightmare.  We killed every animal Old McDonald had to get this chili, Breast of Chicken, Loin of Pig, Ground Beef, and Beef Steak... and some beans in there for good measure.  The chili was pretty good, however the saddest part of the whole affair was the loin.  I tried about zero on the loin because it was going in chili... turns out it was the bestest most juciest loin I'd ever cooked... and I put it in chili...

October ended with cold #1... awesome I love breathing out of one nostril at a time. 

October brought a new niece to the family Kaydee Ella can't wait to meet her at Christmas.

Last but not least, my geekiness would not be complete unless I mentioned that October also brought the pre-order of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  I will do a full review of this game next week, it comes out exactly one week from now.  Infact 1 week from this very moment I will be walking to the bus to go to Best Buy to purchase my copy.  For those wondering, Yes, I did use a day of vacation for a video game.