Turducken

Yes that's right, the holiday craze is coming to my stomach soon, thanks to the culinary skills of my friend Liz's friend Alex. Liz has a traditional urban tribe sort of Thanksgiving, and this year features the Turducken. Pictures will be posted soon.

Please note that the links bar has finally been restored, bigger and better than ever. Let this be a lesson, save your links before switching templates.

I realize my posts have been lackluster lately. I blame the fact that my computer is down and I can never remember my blog password (it's set to auto enter from my computer). I'm not sure what the problem is, but the kind folks at Apple are either charging me $377 to fix it, or telling me that it's now an expensive paperweight. It's only 4 years old, but it has been dropped onto a concrete floor, so I think I may be in the market for a new computer. Scott, any advice?

Geborten Fun

Let me start by saying that this post in no way advocates throwing a surprise anything for me. I do not approve of being surprised.

This weekend we threw a surprise birthday brunch for my friend Jeff, which went off well. I think part of the reason he didn't suspect anything is that we threw it a week early. There was food galore and a good time was had by all.

These are a couple friends, we called to coordinate our wardrobes. You cant see it so well, but our shirts all have pointed pocket flaps and shiney buttons.

Here we are in the kitchen. I was in charge of potatoes.

Jeff got ahold of more than his share of hats, and played dinosaur. Yes, it was an alcholic brunch. A good time was had by all.

Home for the Holidays

I will be in Fresno on Weds Dec 21, untill the morning of the 31st. Are there any plans in the works? Any word about others coming to town (Johnsons or the Jay)? Maybe we could do a potluck or something.

Also, I will add congratulations to my home state for soundly defeating all of Arnold's bills. Given the way elections are going around the country there may be hope for 2008. Things are not as clear cut here. The liberal, tolerant voters in Seattle have approved a law banning smoking within 20 feet of any door or window. Now I'm not a smoker, but this is rediculous. Wat it means is that people can't even go outside a bar to smoke without being twenty feet away. In busy areas where the street is lined with bars and restaurants, that means walking into the middle of the street. Ans it doesn't help to add patios, because few places have enough room to build farther than 20 away from the building. It is a stupid law that I'm sure will end up in court. Stupid passive agressive Seattle.

A new look

I decided to shake things up a bit, so I changed my template. Fair warning to anyone that is considering it, you loose any changes you made, including the links. NowI will have to go through and redo it all. Oh well, I guess its worth it for the change of pace. Next time I will copy the code so I can paste it in rather than retyping it all.