Pass The Sushi!

In about 6 hours the alarm clock is going to go off… not once but at least 4 times with seven minute inter­vals before some­one will get up and get out of bed. Do you know what wakes me up? The alarm clock ring­ing once. The third time, with Richard Cheese singing Hot For Teacher blar­ing through the speak­ings is just bloody annoy­ing. I am not a bright eyed and bushy tailed morn­ing per­son but I get up. I may not speak for an hour, but I get up. Let me check my email, grab some caf­feine and get a shower. Then we can talk. But it only takes once for the alarm clock to get me out of bed.… Not an hour of snooze.

I wish there was a way to pay some­one back for this, but there isn’t. The only morn­ing I could do any­thing would be on a week­end, when he is off and I am get­ting ready for work, and its just plain wrong to screw with some­one when they can be sleep­ing in. In the mean­time I will fill my morn­ings with insanely vio­lent thoughts directed at the ass­clown that fills the morn­ing silence with his annoy­ing radio ramblings.

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This week­end was action packed and fun filled brought to me by the city of Bal­ti­more. Well, sort of. There was a comic book con­ven­tion I went to for work and I got to walk around look­ing at spiffy art­work and peo­ple who really shouldn’t have put them­selves in that much span­dex. If you need to buy it by the bolt, you prob­a­bly shouldn’t be in it.

It is fun though to walk around and see every­thing. Lots of ‘names’ in the busi­ness were there mix­ing it up with some up-and-coming artists. I bought a cou­ple of prints with the agree­ment that they would actual get to intro­duce them­selves to a ver­ti­cal sur­face and not just be stored away.

The pic of this lit­tle dude was my favorite find and if I wasn’t so broke, I’da handed that kid $2.

We also were on an adven­ture to try a new restau­rant, one we spot­ted on Din­ers Drive Ins and Dives. We will have to try that one again, when its a lit­tle less night­time, because I wasn’t aware that the place we were headed was in the park­ing lot of strip club. Didn’t catch that memo. I have heard that it is really good though, so when I feel safe leav­ing my car for more then 3 min­utes, with a lot of sun light left in the day, we shall go back to try it. P.F. Changs 1 — Chapps 0. Read the rest of this entry »

Let me start my post by say­ing I love my car. It is awe­some. It has “Go Faster” stripes. Its stream­lined and aero­dy­namic. Love it.

But damn, if that gun­metal gray Chal­lenger isn’t mean, I don’t know what it. Seri­ously, I would drive like a total ass behind that wheel. I would be my own James Bond and it  would be glo­ri­ous. I am gen­er­ally not a fan of Dodge, but I think they launched the best look­ing mus­cle car of the lot. The Mus­tang is good, the Camero grew on me, but the Chal­lenger was love at first site.

If I had my pick, I would have an older clas­sic long before a new one any day, but as nei­ther are an option, Ill day­dream about the Chal­lenger for now. Read the rest of this entry »

Today was my day off and, much like that lady on the food net­work who seems really mean, I spent it cook­ing (minus the film crew and culi­nary pres­tige of course). I woke up early to bake cook­ies (hope­fully that post is for tomor­row) and went to a friends house to make ravi­oli. And by make, I mean he did all the work while I snapped pic­tures. Kind of nice for a change.

Like all things that require a kneaded dough, ravi­oli intim­i­dated me. I under­stand the basics of knead­ing, but I am a visual learner and I don’t think there is a book that can show you how hard to press or teach you what the proper con­sis­tency is when the knead­ing is all done.

So please excuse my lack of an offi­cial recipe, but this one is a touch test.

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Shock­ing News Break: Autumn is not here yet.

Despite the retail giants attempt to make you believe crisp weather, falling leaves, and carved pump­kins are right on the hori­zon — I’m here to tell you they aren’t. Yes, chil­dren may be back in school putting an end to the sum­mer vaca­tion sea­son but is it fall? Nope, still not yet. And even though the town I cur­rently reside in is throw­ing a Fall Fes­ti­val on Sep­tem­ber 18th — it still wont be fall. So save your­self the excite­ment, we’ve got a few weeks to go yet.

Fall arrives Sep­tem­ber 22nd 2010. So stop try­ing to lure me in with your com­fort­ing fall can­dles, warm cozy sweaters and fash­ion­able boots. I’m not giv­ing in.  Most of all — I will not start cook­ing like its fall! I refuse. We get like 12 months of win­ter here so I savor my sum­mer recipes. I wont let them go! Not yet. And you can’t make me. Read the rest of this entry »