I want to be the opposite of an adult these days. When you are five years old, you don't realize how great life is. I spent $30 on vitamins today. That's awesome right?
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Woa...Pictures
I recently received a grill for my birthday from my parents...Thanks Mom and Dad. Well it only took me about a month to finally get the drive to conquer the construction of this fine little grill. Since it was about 400 degress celcius...very hot...about the temperature on the sun I think....crazy hot in Arkansas in the summers, I decided to construct this grill in my living room. I'm paying for the A/C so I'm going to taking it in as much as possible. This grill had about 300 pieces...no exageration here. It took me 30 minutes to just unwrap everything. There was a little package with all the bolts and screws in it. On the back of the package, it had a name of what those pieces were. Once you started opening each little compartment of the pieces, you couldn't really see the name anymore, so I figured...hey...I'm a guy...these descriptions and instructions are almost offensive to me...who needs them. Worst idea ever. I get halfway through construction, only to figure out that I've missed used pieces here and there. For the remainder of the time, I'm having to figure out which bolts and screws I can remove so that the grill will stay intact but yet I can continue to move forward with construction. After 2 frustrating hours, the grill was completed. At least I wasn't outside in the heat right?
Gah that thing is awesome!!
Well, once the grill was completed I embarked on my first grilling experience with me and Gregory (The Grill). Pork tenderloin it is, plus a homemade recipe for zuccini. What's in the homemade recipe you ask? Secret...only dumb cooks like Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart share their recipes...they aren't going to get anywhere in life doing silly things like that. This recipe stays with me.
I made a new friend at work the other day. I was walking to my car, on my way to class...yes I'm still in class...except now at Wal-mart University. I walked passed a car and heard a cat meowing. My first thought was that some cruel person put there cat in their car while they were at work...I was about to call animal police, but then it kept getting louder and louder. Everytime I turned around, I couldn't see anything, and then finally...this appeared.
A little kitten was following me to my car. I named him Sam Walton.
This post's music selection is actually a double...two for the price of one...you can consider it a gift and write it off on your taxes or something. This band just so happened to be passing through Fayetteville on Friday and I just so happened to see them live. They are happy mix of rock, blues, and soul all wrapped into a goofy bunch of head bangers from Omaha, NE. If you ever hear of this band coming through your town, I definitely recommend seeing them. Its a great time!! Videos by The Kris Lager Band...
Friday, July 9, 2010
What a week...
So you would think that holiday's would be awesome when you are out in the real world. To some extent, yes they are awesome, but not when you have to make up for lost time because of the day you didn't work. That's right, this week I've been working over 10 hour days, but strangely enough, kind of enjoying it. Nevertheless, my job is going great. I'm learning a ton and I really enjoy my coworkers.
Took a bike ride on the Fayetteville trail the other night around 8:30pm...bad idea. The demographics of people that frequent the bike trail during the day as opposed to the evening hours is completely different...like night and day...sorry that was bad. Anyways, if you are looking for a way to increase your bike riding speed unconsciously, night riding could be the thing for you. I think I was pedaling as fast as my little legs could possibly go for about an hour. At one point of my adventure, I came up on a nice, portly, grungy, man with his hand around his belt. It appeared that he was pulling something out of his pants...well at least in my mind it looked like. I figured, great, he's got a knife. The only thing I had on this guy was the element of surprise and speed. So I tried pedalling even faster and went for the pass. As I'm passing, he acts like he is going to run at me but then stops and just smiles with one of those creepy smiles, like, "I'll see you next time on the trail." I basically cried myself home from that point. I thought it couldn't hurt the situation. Great times...stay classy Fayetteville. I love the bike trail. Its ingenious. A sustainable trail through the middle of town from one end to another. One minor flaw...it goes through the most sketchy areas in Fayetteville...warms the heart every time I'm on it. I digress.
Today...big news...attended a turkey kill plant for work.
You might be thinking, "what's a turkey kill plant?" Well lets break it down one word at a time. "Turkey": a large avian creature that produces meat which can be a healthier substitute for its four legged friend...the cow. In nature, they are quite beautiful when feathers are extended. In the production world, they are big, white, round, and can barely walk. "Kill": this is pretty self-explanatory; The End. "Plant": produces Oxygen...or in this case...boxes of edible turkey meat
Now that that's over, I attended my first plant visit and boy was it a way to start. A turkey kill plant operates so that live turkeys enter one door and leave out the back in a box, wrapped, and labeled in about 4 hours. Never have I seen more people waving knifes around and wearing hairnets. It was amazing! If a fight broke out in this place, without a doubt, everyone in the whole place would be cut to little bitty pieces. And then probably turned into meat for hotdogs....mmhhmmmm...Of course, since this is a "kill" plant, we had to see the "kill" process. Well folks, its not fun, not pretty and terribly stinky. I'm going to leave it at that. Just go to bed tonight and be thankful for what you have and that you don't have to be in that room everyday *STEPS OFF SOAP BOX* On the whole, the visit was awesome. We were treated like super stars and ate some great country cooking from a local establishment. Great day...Great Week
This blog's music is fairly fitting...well at least the title is. Video: "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" by Iron and Wine
Took a bike ride on the Fayetteville trail the other night around 8:30pm...bad idea. The demographics of people that frequent the bike trail during the day as opposed to the evening hours is completely different...like night and day...sorry that was bad. Anyways, if you are looking for a way to increase your bike riding speed unconsciously, night riding could be the thing for you. I think I was pedaling as fast as my little legs could possibly go for about an hour. At one point of my adventure, I came up on a nice, portly, grungy, man with his hand around his belt. It appeared that he was pulling something out of his pants...well at least in my mind it looked like. I figured, great, he's got a knife. The only thing I had on this guy was the element of surprise and speed. So I tried pedalling even faster and went for the pass. As I'm passing, he acts like he is going to run at me but then stops and just smiles with one of those creepy smiles, like, "I'll see you next time on the trail." I basically cried myself home from that point. I thought it couldn't hurt the situation. Great times...stay classy Fayetteville. I love the bike trail. Its ingenious. A sustainable trail through the middle of town from one end to another. One minor flaw...it goes through the most sketchy areas in Fayetteville...warms the heart every time I'm on it. I digress.
Today...big news...attended a turkey kill plant for work.
You might be thinking, "what's a turkey kill plant?" Well lets break it down one word at a time. "Turkey": a large avian creature that produces meat which can be a healthier substitute for its four legged friend...the cow. In nature, they are quite beautiful when feathers are extended. In the production world, they are big, white, round, and can barely walk. "Kill": this is pretty self-explanatory; The End. "Plant": produces Oxygen...or in this case...boxes of edible turkey meat
Now that that's over, I attended my first plant visit and boy was it a way to start. A turkey kill plant operates so that live turkeys enter one door and leave out the back in a box, wrapped, and labeled in about 4 hours. Never have I seen more people waving knifes around and wearing hairnets. It was amazing! If a fight broke out in this place, without a doubt, everyone in the whole place would be cut to little bitty pieces. And then probably turned into meat for hotdogs....mmhhmmmm...Of course, since this is a "kill" plant, we had to see the "kill" process. Well folks, its not fun, not pretty and terribly stinky. I'm going to leave it at that. Just go to bed tonight and be thankful for what you have and that you don't have to be in that room everyday *STEPS OFF SOAP BOX* On the whole, the visit was awesome. We were treated like super stars and ate some great country cooking from a local establishment. Great day...Great Week
This blog's music is fairly fitting...well at least the title is. Video: "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" by Iron and Wine
Thursday, July 8, 2010
That's odd...
So the video posted above might have some odd similarities to the video I posted by Hanson...I don't know if you will be able to tell but just check it out. Not sure how the Blues Brothers copied Hanson and got Ray to play...crazy
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