Archive for December, 2006

I set an achievable goal for myself on the PS2 game Guitar Hero 2. I was going to achieve a five star rating on all the songs with medium difficulty to unlock one of the bonus guitars. I had finished “Institutionalized – Suicidal Tendancies” with a blazing 97% playing nearly the whole song in a rockin power stance.
(see http://www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com for warnings on the power stance)
I was ONE song away yesterday (and an easy one at that) when I started up the PS2 and it said “creating new save game”. It wiped my entire game card. I get to start all over. Time for some finger stretches!

I’m a blogger now too! First entry, birthday. Mom and Dad and Mom and Dad, thanks for kitchen gadgets!

Birthday gift – Food Processor.
It sliced potatoes like a champ for home-made potatoes augratin. Each slice was 1/8 inch thick and it took less than 1 second to decimate a potatoe. The slicer was AWESOME. My cheese sauce needs improvement.

Birthday gift – Kitchen Aid accessories: Pasta Extruder
Made my own spaghetti from scratch using the grinder accessory that presses pasta dough through a shaped grate (think play-dough factory). As for the dough, this was my second attempt at pasta dough, and quite successful. The big improvement came from leaving the kitchen-aide beating the heck out of the dough while I play guitar hero 2. It makes the dough extra gluten-y.

New/Old Toy – Toaster Oven
Our old black and decker toaster oven blew one of its rods apart, so I got a Euro-Pro to replace it. It’s bigger (can do a whole totinos pizza) but excellent. I can slide my whole grill pan into it (with door propped open) and get a little extra top-side broiling in just minutes.

New favorite recipe – Tortilla Pizza
Super easy (and healthy) tortilla pizza recipe from a pillsbury cookbook. It took like 10 minutes, was tastey and contained very few processed food items. My new toaster oven whooped azz on it.

Boy, no camera battery is really boring. I should dig out some older photos and post them. But, for now, I’m having fun just playing with the site. I added a new catagory where site update posts can be archived. If you look through these posts in the future, it will effectively be the same as the “What’s New!” section of the old site.

Also, due to a few requests, I’ve decided to experimentally turn back on comments. Feel free to let me know what you think about a post by clicking on the “comments” link below. Hopefully I’ll have better luck this time moderating the spam.

Update: Ironically, this post is getting more spam than any other! What is up with that? I’m dissallowing comments on this post for the time being. Sorry!

Well, the good news is it’s almost Christmas and life is busy with many wonderful things. The bad news is I lost the charger for my D70 battery and it went dead last week, so no new pictures until the new one comes from Amazon. Sorry.

On Saturday, I put my head down and set up the Movies! page (finally), so go check it out! We don’t have tons of footage just yet, but I’m hopping to add one or two clips from each trip in the future. Enjoy!