vacation good! ....

hmmm i should have probably updated the blog while I was on vacation .. but I mostly avoided all things computer related the whole time ... so you get the summary .. very high level

not necessarily in order...
flight, sleep, shopping, food, dogs, wife, shopping, airport, new bbq (big green egg, pics sometime), food, San Antonio, Alamo, Zoo, River Walk, CountyLine bbq, pics, pics, more pics, dogs, sleep, sleep, tv, shopping, sight seeing, mow the lawn (what i get for going on vacation to my own damn house), get jeep inspected, to hot for the bike. sleep .. more sleep.... tv, food ....

think that's about it. I have some pics to go through and gather together and will maybe post a slide show if I get ambitious. Good vacation but now back to work .. bleah!

off for vacation as of tomorrow

I will be on vacation from the 17th to 29th. Going home to Austin to see the wife and dogs. Taking my niece with me and a friend from Denmark is coming to visit. Should be a good couple of weeks. Not a very interesting post today but well I might not get to making may for a few days...

not a very interesting weekend

Didn't eat anything special or interesting this weekend and didn't stick strictly to my diet, though I am relaxing it slightly due to vacation coming up. Carbs give me cramps if i jump back into them to fast so I am eating a little bit each day now just to get used to them a little. I still won't be jumping into eating a LOT of carbs all the time but I am going to Austin, I need to be able to eat tortilla chips for queso!

I did see a moose this weekend but was to slow in finding my camera (hey, I was driving at the time). He wasn't HUGE like some get and he wasn't real old because he may have had a 3 to 4 foot rack. The most impressive thing I found about him was that his coat was a real deep chocolate brown and he looked like someone had just groomed him with a horse brush... I am used to seeing dusty tick infested Moose lately and this was a great change. Just as I found the camera he turned off into the woods and was gone.

level 70!

OK, if you play online games and WoW specifically that will mean a little bit ... otherwise just imagine sitting at a computer for several days without getting up for anything but necessities and it will give you an idea of how much time investment this is. I am not an expert at this game so add a few more days to that. I got to level 70 last night before midnight and then went into some major Gold dept to a couple friends to get my flying mount (the swift one!), thanks Rick and Sherry, I'll get ya paid back in a few... umm i'd like to say days but I suspect it's gonna be weeks.

long weekend, uneventful holiday

I spent most of the weekend trying hard not to mess up my diet and contending with some strange and annoying muscle pain in my neck, back and left arm. It's eased up considerably but is obnoxious because it tends to come and go a little, so once I relax and start to move normally again i move my next just to far and it's back again. Hopefully another day or two of this and it will be gone.

Nothing special for food over the weekend to report. I didn't make anything at all interesting. The most interesting thing I did was go see Wanted at the movies and I enjoyed it but wasn't blown away like I am sure I would have been if I went to see something else. On well another time. I'd suggest it if you wanted something mindless with a lot of blood and action. Just make sure you have a healthy ability with suspension of disbelief. The physics in this movie leave a lot of room to be questioned.

I didn't goto any of the fireworks displays, which si sorta sad being just 40 minutes outside Boston. They put on a great show and I did see it on TV and it was great. But dealing with that large of a crowd never seems appealing to me, and less so when I haven't got anyone to share it with.

Played lots of WoW ... for thsoe of you who know what that means .. i got my rogue to level 69, only one more level to go before it becomes even more pointless :)

Greek Burgers

The following picture sucks ... stupid pita bread would not stay folded over for a picture. I did not have any toothpicks to fix it with.

basic recipe ... didn't measure .. sorry

ground beef, yogurt, curry powder, black pepper, oregano, egg

mix it all up and grill, though I had to pan fry.

serve on pita bread with lettuce. Would be good with Tzatziki Sauce but I didn't have any.

experiment

Jalapeño poppers are something I can't normally have on this diet. The chilis themselves aren't terrible on the carb meter but the breading is. Last night I decided to try using parm cheese like I do with fish and chicken to simulate a fried food and appease a craving. The results... sorta a success. I could not get the cheese to stick to the jalapeño pods but since I was stuffing half a jalapeño, the cheese stuck to the cream cheese (with green olives) very nicely. The whole thing deep fried fairly nicely blistering the jalapeño skin but not burning it and causing the parm cheese to turn golden brown on top. I'd call it success other than the fact that it just didn't come out the way I hoped. I was hoping for a crust of parm all around the pod and stuffing not just over the top. No pics, they weren't very pretty and I was hungry and greasy. No need to get oil all over the camera for something that isn't quite figured out yet.