She Might Have Been Cold Once Upon A Time...

 

 

...but over the years, with modern gear, she has warmed up just a bit (scroll down).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a bit more)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See what I mean!

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Islam The Religion of peace - You Have Just Got To Love It...

...when proponents of said religion bomb a peace rally, don't ya! And please don't tell me it wasn't Islamists who bombed it.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/10/turkey-bomb-blast/?intcmp=hpcmt

All the best,
GB

Sixty

So far, it's been just another day after all is said and done.

All the best,
GB

What Could Be Better Than Camel Toe & Guns...

...even if the guns are fakes as I suspect. My guess is that's genuine camel toe and that makes up for the fake guns, don't ya think!

All the best,
GB

If Only Obama & Putin Made As Much Sense...

...as did Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, then the war being waged against ISIS might come to an end much sooner and with much better results (as in the utter defeat of ISIS). So what is it that he has called for that makes so much sense - he wants Russia and the coalition (of which the U.S. in the lead nation) to work with one another to eliminate the threat posed by ISIS.

"“If there is coordination and cooperation between the international coalition and Russia against Daesh, that will achieve better results,” Barzani said in the statement, using an Arabic name for Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL."

It is so sensible and so simple and would be so effective that you can almost rest assured that it will not happen. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

She Is Not Just A Nasty Bitch...

...she is a dirty rotten cunt in my estimation. I have spoken to quite a few secret service agents who dealt with her first hand and not one ever had a good word for her - only stories of her being a true piece of shit toward them and toward others. I volunteered for and flew as an air marshal for 5 1/2 moths after 9/11 and she was on at least a few to several shuttle flights between Washington, DC and NYC, going one way or the other, and from what I could see she always acted arrogantly toward her assigned Secret Service agent and often the same toward the flight crews. I witnessed that first hand. I would not vote for her for president if my life depended on it.

You must know by now, I am referring to whom I consider to be the Cunt of all cunts - Hillary Clinton. More about her wonderful vaginal attitude here.

All the best,
Glenn B

The Real KTKC Team Glenn B Raffle Winners

I think I got it right this time and the winners of the team Glenn B Kilted To Kick Cancer raffle are:

First Prize:

# 54 Hubert Kostron
300 rounds Winchester 22LR ammunition in wooden collector’s box.
Box of FMJ 9mm ammunition.
1 lb. of Hunters Reserve Roadkill Summer Sausage (no it is not really made from roadkill but is made from meat like venison and elk).

Second prize:

#129 Frank Dominguez
Puma SGB Deadwood Fixed Blade Knife
Smith’s 10 Second Knife & Scissor Sharpener

Third Prize:

#148 Steve Yagoda
$50 gift card for Friendly’s Restaurants

Fourth Prize:

#99 Pete Angelino
Encased 2011, 25th Anniversary, First Strike, U.S. Silver Eagle $1.00 Coin – rated MS70 by PCGS. (Could bring you luck with the cards.)
Bicycle Playing Cards, carton of 12 decks. (Maybe you can multiply that silver dollar into many more.)    

Fifth Prize:

#80 Maria Rey
Magic Eight Ball (What better and fun way to tell your future could there be?)

KTKC Team Glenn B Raffle Winners - Almost...

 

 

...kind of, sort of a list of the winners, except for the fact that I screwed up and shortchanged two donors some chances to win. Think I have it straight now, am waiting for confirmation from those who donated that it looks right, once I get that I will redo the drawing.

 



First Prize:
#59 Tim O’Brien
300 rounds Winchester 22LR ammunition in wooden collector’s box.
Box of FMJ 9mm ammunition.
1 lb. of Hunters Reserve Roadkill Summer Sausage (no it is not really made from roadkill but is made from meat like venison and elk).

Second prize:

#90 Pete Angelino
Puma SGB Deadwood Fixed Blade Knife
Smith’s 10 Second Knife & Scissor Sharpener

Third Prize:

#112 Frank Dominguez
$50 gift card for Friendly’s Restaurants (If you don’t live on LI, let me know and I can sub another gift card for this one.)

Fourth Prize:

#40 Ray Barrett
Encased 2011, 25th Anniversary, First Strike, U.S. Silver Eagle $1.00 Coin – rated MS70 by PCGS. (Could bring you luck with the cards.)
Bicycle Playing Cards, carton of 12 decks. (Maybe you can multiply that silver dollar into many more.)    
              
Fifth Prize:
#145 D.J. McSweeney
Magic Eight Ball (What better and fun way to tell your future could there be?)



All the best,
GB

 

October 4th - Today In History

"He serves his party best who serves his country best."

Could you imagine a politician today not only saying that but living by it? I certainly could not but Rutherford B. Hayes, born on this day in 1822, said it at his presidential inauguration and despite not being considered a very effective president he tried to live it too. More on him here.

In addition, today was an important day for another reason, much more important than most any of us probably realize. On October 4, 1636, the first legal code written in North America was instituted by the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony. It was an extremely important legal code that would help mold our Constitution in as much as it guaranteed things like trial by jury and that all laws be enacted only with the consent of the freemen of the colony. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

Our Next President

Who knows who is going to be our next prez. Maybe it could be her. Certainly looks gun friendly and fairly presidential too. If she had half a brain I might even vote for her. She'd almost assuredly have to be better than what we have now and if not at least she would be easier on the eyes.

All the best,
GB

The Importance of Firearms Training

I just never realized, until now, how darned realistic were those silhouette targets.

A hat tip to Ed S for posting that on his FB page from whence I lifted it.

All the best,
Glenn B

Chris Mintz Needs Your Help

Chris Mintz reportedly attempted to prevent the Oregon school shooter piece of shit from entering a room to shoot more victims. For his efforts, Mintz was reportedly shot seven (7) times. He survived and is to undergo extensive surgery and medical treatments to save him. More info can be found here.

A relative of his has started a Go Fund Me page in the hopes of raising $10.000. Amazingly, it appears they are well on the way to raising at least 3/4 of a million as they are well over 600K right now. I just donated a humble amount and if you would like to do the same, or donate more, you can do so through this link:

https://www.gofundme.com/s75ge9y4

All the best,
Glenn B

A Well Dressed 45

 

 

Al the best,

GB

Update On Microsoft Windows 10 Problems

Windows 10, with HP's help, apparently screwed up my laptop more than I thought. It became impossible to sign on using my fingerprint reader after installation, and subsequent removal of MS Windows 10 even tough I reverted to Windows 7 Ultimate which was my previous OS. After trying every bit of advice I could find on HP's website, about how to get the fingerprint reader to work, with no success, I decided to try a complete system recovery. That failed twice. I decided to try again today. The third time was a charm and it finally seems to have worked out right today. Time will tell though since I have not yet finished downloading and installing all of the darned 182 MS updates that the system now requires since the recovery brought the laptop back to its original state from 2012 when I purchased it.

So far though, almost everything seems to be working properly. I have one problem logging onto Blogger because it shows that an error took place each time I have logged onto it.  I merely close the error window and it works fine, so I have no clue what was the error. Anyway, not only do I need to finish the Windows updates, I also have to update all of the hardware drivers and all of the HP software. I figure it will take several more hours to get it all done, I have already been at it about 4 hours now.

While the problems all started with the installation of Windows 10, it has become evident that at least part of the problem was caused by HP. For some reason unfathomable to me, they decided to only update software and drivers for computers purchased in 2013 or later to make them completely compatible with Windows 10. That means my laptop, which was purchased in 2012, was apparently considered obsolete to the folks at HP and in that regard they decided to simply fuck over any customers who purchased high end (which is mine) or other computers from them prior to 2013. As far as I am concerned they are a bunch of motherless arsehats and I will be buying a Dell next time around unless they make some major amends for their crappy customer service. Regardless, I am pretty sure a lot of the problem must be due to Windows 10. I keep hearing about all sorts of compatibility issues that others have had and have seen all sorts of fixes posted about online. It seems almost as if Windows 10 is a beta version, a poor one at that, of a new OS as opposed to the new Cadillac of operating systems. If MS and HP ever get the bugs ironed out, I may try it again but probably no time soon.

Sadly, when I reverted to my original system configuration, Internet Explorer went back to version 9. I had version 10 installed and liked it and when I tried to upgrade to it all I was offered was version 11. I upgraded to that forgetting that it sucked because it does not allow the option to open sites in new windows as opposed to opening everything (as it does) in tabs. I do not like tabbed browsing but will have to get used to it now. Oh well, live and learn.

All the best,
Glenn B

 

Kilted To Kick Cancer Results

Here is a link to the team standings for the Kilted To Kick Cancer fundraiser during September 2015 (as of the latest team standings info when I typed this):

http://www.kiltedtokickcancer.org/fundraising-competition-standings/

I think an amazing amount of money was raised in one month for just about 350 donations. I have to hand it to the top two teams - they raised an outstanding amount of money for the cause and the first place team - Team Dragon - destroyed the competition!

I again want to send out a really big thank you to everyone who donated through team Glenn B. As per the team standings, we had 19 donations amounting to $580; however the final count has not been tallied and by my calculations we had at least 21 donations amounting to a total of $755. All who sent me a receipt for their donations through Team Glenn B will be entered in the raffle drawing this weekend. I will announce the winners sometime on Sunday evening.

By the way, if anyone has donated and not sent me your receipt and received acknowledgement from me that I got it - please let me know in a comment here or email me again. I cannot enter anyone into the raffle if I am not aware of their donations. The people I am aware of so far, who donated to KTKC through Team Glenn B are:

Pete Angelino
Nancy Aquila
Ed Barton
Ray Barrett
Rose Carducci
David Chan
Ed Dempsey
Bob Devine
Frank Dominguez
Maria Imburgia
Herb Kaufer
Alex Killie
Hubert Kostron
Bob McCrossen
D.J. McSweeney
Tim O'Brien
Maria Rey
John Schultz
Al Steinmark
Mike Vannacore
Steve Yagoda
 Thanks again to all who donated.

All the best,
Glenn B

Sgt. Schultz's Long Lost Daughter



 

 

There is a definite family resemblance - isn't there?

 

A hat tip and my thanks to Mike G for sending me that one.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Having To Work In Retirement Sucks...

...but having to work for totally obnoxious arsehats while retired is misery almost unbearable. If I really did not need the money, that I will make over the next few weeks, to pay for this coming winter's heating oil, I would have quit my job today. Sadly my earnings for this week and last week will go toward paying for damage to another persons car that I hit a couple of weeks back and my pension is not enough to cover regular bills with heating oil thrown in to the mix. Sometimes you just have to bear it. Note that I did not say grin and bear it because I most assuredly am not grinning.

If you are working now at your first career, or even in a shit job before you get into a real career, let me tell you what I told my son in a text message less than hour ago:

"Save as much money as you can now, in an IRA or 401K (or whatever it's called) so when u retire, you won't have to work. Working fucking sucks once retired."

If I write more than that, right now, my head may explode despite the vodka cherries (my own concoction) I just had and the vodka I just drank. So, I'll stop now before my brains erupt all over my laptop.

All the best,
Glenn B.

Windows 10 Upgrade

I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 this afternoon. After having done so, my advice to anyone out there is:

DON'T DO IT!

As far as I am concerned, Windows 10 is little more than a piece of shit very fault prone operating system that may well screw up the workings of your PC - it sure did to mine. I waited weeks to receive notice from Microsoft saying the upgrade was ready for my laptop. Then, after installing it, several of my programs/applications no longer ran or did not run properly. I tried to assure that all my drivers were up to date to see if that would help but Windows 10 apparently would not allow me to do so and whenever I tried to do anything like that, I kept getting a message saying I had to contact the administrator because the application or program had been marked as unsafe. I also found that booting and shutting down the computer were both much slower under Windows 10. In addition programs, that did run, ran slower. None of that had not happened under Windows 7. After several hours of trying to get things to work as they should, I gave up. That was right after I found out I had the option to remove Windows 10 and reinstall Windows 7. I did that but that was not a cure all. I am still having problems with some programs like HP SimplePass, my fingerprint reader and with downloading driver upgrades for things like my graphics card.

I have two words and a number for Microsoft: Fuck Windows 10.

All the best,
Glenn B

Kilted To Kick Cancer - Day 19 (Very Late Entry)

Well, there I was working all week and taking care of the house with the wife away for ten days; so, I did not get in much kilt wearing this past week. Thus the absence of photos and blegging reports all week long. Anyway, that changed yesterday, at least for the weekend since I'll be working all this week too but I do have some pics from yesterday. The first is of me  in the local Costco parking lot just after I got to my car to load the groceries into my car's trunk.

The next is of me at JFK Airport while waiting there to pick up the two Long Island princesses after their return from their Mediterranean cruise. You should have seen the look on the guy's face when I asked a stranger in the crowd to please take a photo of me with my phone camera. A little explanation was all that was needed though and he helped me out.

The next is of my wife and daughter. I tried to get a really quick surprise pic and thus it came out a tiny bit blurry as I was still swinging the camera up when I snapped this one. I had wanted to get the looks on their faces when they saw me kilted at the airport but they quickly changed from looks of sheer disgust to smiles when they realized I was taking their photo and my daughter told my wife to smile.

Right after I dropped the women off at home, I hopped in my car and headed to the NYCB Theater at Westbury to see the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band. Brendan and his friend Pat already preceded me there because there was a chance I would run late with picking up the girls at the airport Somehow, the got through Customs & Border protection inspections within 45-50 minutes of landing. They had just announced a minimum 2 hour wait to cleat CBP so that was a good surprise because I got to the concert early.

 

 

It was a great concert. I had fun being there with Brendan and his pal Pat who both seemed to be totally enjoying it. Charlie Daniels was great as was the Marshall Tucker Band; they sure brought back memories of the mid to late seventies for me.

 

As for the rest of this past week since the 19th, I have been working each day and obviously not wearing my kilt then since I need to wear a uniform. The rest of my time has been spent at home taking it easy since I have had a couple bouts of gout this week and am still feeling pretty crappy since I have not yet gotten my stronger strength prescription for my thyroid meds. In other words, no kilted adventures all week long. I will be kilted this weekend if feeling up to getting out and about and should post some pics by Monday, maybe even tomorrow.

 

By the way, me not being kilted does not mean that I have dropped out of the prostate cancer awareness campaign and Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraiser. I am hopeful you will find it worthwhile to make at least a small donation toward the fight against prostate cancer through the following link:

 

http://www.kiltedtokickcancer.org/product/ktkc-donation-2015/

 

Team Glenn B has fallen to 7th place and sure could use a boost as could the overall amount of donations. To date, as this post is being written, $12,774.00 of the hoped for $50,000 has been raised; Team Glenn B has raised $445 of that. Remember that: "Kilted to Kick Cancer is an IRS 501(c)3 Non Profit and your donations are tax deductible. 100% of donations goes directly to cancer research, prevention and fund raising efforts.  No one at KTKC draws a salary.".

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

 

 

 



 

It's Been A Tough Week But Blogging And Kilted Blegging To Resume Soon

It's been a long week, what with that rash I had (and still have some bit of it remaining), me feeling pretty much exhausted each day after only about 10 or 12 hours of awake time and me working a full time week for the first time in a long time. The work stuff had me getting up at and that included at 0515each morning, then about 1 to 1 1/4 hour commute to work, then at least a 1 1/2 hour, to 2 1/2 hour commute to home each day. Add to that the wife has been away since last week and I was doing a bunch of household crap too. Walking the dogs, for about an hour each day (I missed two days though) was thrown in there too taking up more of what little time I had left over after the rest of it. Add to that my report I got back from my doctor, that I need more thyroid medication because my hormone level was too low when she tested it late last week, and to that add the fact that since they told me on Tuesday they have not yet called in my prescription, and let me just say that I have been friggin drained without time for any blogging or Kilted To Kick Cancer blegging.

I pick up the wife and daughter tomorrow at the airport, so I am hopeful I can resume both blogging and KTKC blegging by then. I plan to wear the kilt to the airport and then to a Charlie Daniels concert I will be attending right after that (the ladies had best be back on time or may be catching cab home). By Sunday, even if still tired just due to the thyroid thing, I will try to blog and bleg in earnest. Next week though and the remaining weeks in the month, it will be slow going again on weekdays because right now it looks as if I will be working full time for a couple to few weeks. I was happy about that because I needed the money but as it turns out, I will not see the first 1K of it that I bring home. Let's just say that hypothetically speaking, if I ass ended somebody's car, I would be the kind of guy to stop, exchange info, and then pay for the damage once I found out the other driver would be willing to avoid insurance companies.  That is two weeks take-home pay and I have only worked a week of it off so far!

Then there is the matter of a gun I sold and the buyer was not satisfied. I have offered to refund the full selling price and shipping cost but he has not gotten back to me yet. That will mean losing yet another $335.00, $300 of which I thought was as good as in the bank. Oh well.

THIS WEEK HAS SUCKED BOTHE THE CASH OUT OF MY POCKET AND THE LIFE OUT OF ME EVEN THOUGH I WAS WIFELESS FOR ALL OF IT!

All the best,
Glenn B

12 Monkeys & What's On The Table...

...is the perfect combination right now.

It makes me almost forget about this:

My doctor had no clue when I saw her yesterday.
The steroids she prescribed are not doing a thing but the vodka seems to help quell the burning itch some.

Anyway, I have got it better than Bruce W's character in Twelve Monkeys.

All the best,
GB

Meet The New Grill, Same As The Old Grill

They promised rain today but I decided to take a bit of a chance and try to assemble my new BBQ grill instead of letting it sit in its carton in the rain as it did right after it was delivered on Thursday. I was too busy to do it yesterday and that was too bad because it did not rain. For today though, the weathermen predicted a good amount of rain starting this afternoon and into tonight. I decided to give it a go and try to beat the rain.

I began the whole assembly process at about noon. It was partly cloudy/partly sunny - not a bad day. It was warm but not too much. I opened the cartons (one inside the other with a few smaller ones inside the large inner one. After pulling out this and that and the almost fully assembled grill body (thank you Brinkmann) I found the manual.  I went over the parts list and checked off each and every part against it, they were all there! Wow, what a pleasant surprise for something made in China (I had no idea where it was made when I bought it). I started to read the assembly instructions, read a few steps in advance and said let's do it because the instructions were in good English and seemingly made sense. It looked as if it would be pretty straightforward and easy to accomplish. In fact, it was pretty easy; one of the hardest things of the whole deal was getting it all out of the main carton but that was none too difficult and I was able to manage it by myself, including the grill body.

As I said, it was pretty easy to put together thanks to very good to excellent instructions. I had to redo one step because I used two screws with washers, when I was not supposed to use washers, and I needed the washers for another part. Otherwise I got it done without a hitch - at least as far as I can tell now. I have not tested it to assure that it does not leak gas but if it does leak - well then that was a problem straight out of the factory as I had nothing to do with the assembly of the gas line or burners except that I tightened some screws that held the burners in place. There were only a few things for which I would find fault with Brinkmann: 1) virtually 75 to 80% of the screws on the grill body assembly were loose (while 8 of them were supposed to be loose and tightened later once a couple of pieces were put in place, all the others were a different story and were proof that quality control in the Brinkmann  factory in China sucks), 2) There were a few small dings on painted parts, a few scratches on the stainless steel cover and a pretty large dent in the bottom panel (that I straightened out pretty much okay). None of that will effect how it works and other than some design quirks that I am used to already because I had the same grill for three years prior to this replacement, I am satisfied with it for the price I paid. he only thing I noticed that has changed since I bought my original one over three years ago is the thermometer - certainly not anything major. I figure I will get at least a couple more years out of this one if I am careful not to let grease buildup and thus allow for major flare-ups.



As for the rain that I was worried about: It's raining out now. It also was raining a bit when I took the dogs out for a walk, became a downpour once we were committed to about halfway in the walk, poured until we were about 75% through with the walk, stopped a few minutes before we got home BUT it did not rain even one drop in the 3 1/2 or so hours it took me to put the grill together (and I took my time with it). I made sure to get every tool I could think of that I might need, cleaned my mess as I went along (all the cardboard, plastic bags and Styrofoam), read each and every step of the instructions twice (except maybe the one about not needing two washers when I used them by mistake) and enjoyed my coffee throughout the process. My son walked outside just as I was done (great timing) and asked how it was coming along and if I knew when it was supposed to start raining. I was happy to report it was done and that I was dry but that yes heavy rain was predicted.

Perhaps I will have to cook on it tomorrow, that is if it dries out by then. Being the knucklehead I can be, and being lost in the fog of happiness that is little known to me for actually getting something like this done without a problem, I forgot all about the rain to come. I also forgot to do one thing after I had assembled it. I had laid the cover across one end of it so I would not forget to cover it completely, then rolled it into its cubby hole next to my fence. Of course, I left the cover draped right where it was over one end of it. At least that end is dry, then again so is the garden gnome!

All the best,
Glenn B (Master Grill Assembler)

Meet The New Beer - Not The Same As The Old Beer

I tried a new beer (for me) last weekend and again this weekend. I liked it the first time and like it today too. That is a good thing. It is Samuel Adams Octoberfest  beer. I am not a fan of virtually every Sam Adams beer I have ever tried before and there have been several to pass through my lips and over my gums. I found most of the ones I have tried to have been way too bitter and hoppy tasting and I like beers that taste strongly of hops, like strong IPAs. Sam Adams though are usually not to my liking, I guess mostly because I find them overly bitter. 
 
So, I guess I took a chance buying a 28 bottle case of these beers at Costco a couple of weeks ago. I am happy I did so because these taste pretty much like true German Oktoberfest biers, of which I am a fan, and that is a good thing. What was also a good thing was that there were 28 bottles in the case instead of the normal 24 and the price was about the same as it would have been for a normal but smaller sized case.
 
Good stuff. I recommend it.
 
All the best.
GB
 

Kilted To Kick Cancer - Day 12

Like I said in previous posts, I have been doing just about everything kilted and definitely have been wearing my kilt each and every day and today was no exception. I've been posting pics of myself kilted each day too. The only exception so far was yesterday and I decided to forgo the Kilted To Kick Cancer efforts in favor of dedicating my day to the memory of 9/11/2001 and 09/11/2012.

Big umbrella or not, I still got kind of soaked when
out for a walk with the two bigger dogs this afternoon.

Here is my latest Kilted To Kick Cancer pic, day 12, with a kilted me out walking the two bigger dogs of our five dogs (or of the seven total dogs I am stuck with while the wife and daughter are away). Our three and our daughter's two Chihuahuas have not been out for a walk since the wife left, they get to run around the yard for most of their exercise but tomorrow I am taking them out. I can't wait - the two big ones were excellent while walking but 5 high strung Chihuahuas - heaven help me!

If you would like to donate to the fight against prostate cancer, please do so through Kilted to Kick Cancer at this link and I would hope that you select Team Glenn B as the team through which you want to donate:

http://www.kiltedtokickcancer.org/product/ktkc-donation-2015/

All the best,
Glenn B

What's For Dinner?

Since the wife is away this and next week, I will be doing at least some cooking for me and Brendan and it certainly will not be vegan. For the most part it won't be health food either. Today, I went to a local Korean market and picked up a couple of thick salmon steaks, a couple of octopus arms (pre-cooked), just over a pound of shrimp, a small package of sushi, four small flat iron steaks nicely marbled, and some thick cut marinated pork belly (or was it pork tenderloin - whatever, it is laced with fat). I grabbed a variety package of Korean pancakes, some mushrooms and scallions too. I already had some lettuce at home in the event either of us feels like having some salad. I was thinking of getting some lobsters too, but they can wait until next week.

So, most of that, if not all of it, will be cooked up for tonight's dinner (and a midnight snack or leftovers for tomorrow). I was going to take Brendan out tonight but figured why not just do it at home and spend just as much money but on better food than jalapeno poppers and burgers or buffalo chicken wraps at my local pub. That too can wait until another day, I am in the mood for seafood this Friday night. (Yes, I was brought up Catholic but that has little to do with it for me except my wife usually makes seafood on Fridays.)

The other things that are for dinner, and even for my early appetizers as I am enjoying them already, are Sam Adams Oktoberfest beers and some vodka. I picked up a jar of maraschino cherries and am marinated them with vodka right now, they will be ready for dessert in a day or three. I find them better than the Moonshine Cherries I love so much even though the vodka is only 80 proof when it goes into the jar, as opposed to the 100 proof of the moonshine. I also get about 4 times (or more) of the vodka for darned near close to the same price as the moonshine, so it's a bargain too. Right now, I am enjoying a cocktail made from the juice that was in the jar, some club soda and about 2.5 to 3 ounces of vodka. Tastes like the best Shirley Temple in the world, as a kid I could never have dreamed them tasting as good. Yummy, no after-bite but I expect it will have a decent kick as in to my head.

Once Brendan gets in touch to let me know he is leaving work, I will give him about 45 to 60 minutes, then fire up stove. The shrimp will get boiled on the stove. The rest of what I will cook all goes on the grill - the salmon, the flat iron steaks and the marinated pork but I won't need to start that up until he arrives because it will all cook quickly; it's that damn pot of water that takes forever to boil especially since I tend to watch the pot until it does. He is probably less than 20 miles away but now that school has started, the traffic has returned from being a bad dream to being an absolutely unbearable nightmare as is the norm around the NYC area. I don't know how I am going to heat those Korean pancakes but I figure on the top rack in the grill might be okay. As for the salad, I probably will start that before too long just to have it done and waiting whether either of us wants it or not. As long as I don't throw on the dressing it could last through tomorrow.

Holy shit, it almost sounds as if we could survive without the women folks being home. Not only are my wife and daughter in Europe, the mother-in-law is upstate, until this Sunday, with my brothers-in-law. Me and my son might manage to have some fun. Now if only I was about 35 or even 45 again, I could really live it up but then I would have to either swear my son to secrecy or leave him out o the picture for those good times! Yes Phil (my son-in-law) you are invited to come on over; heaven knows I want you implicated in all Brendan and I do too so you don't rat us out!!! Not that I think you would, mind you, I just want to cover mine arse.

All the best,
GB