20 Years Of Not Talking To Jerry

10.06.2007

This is one of those posts for me and Jerry, so even though it won't make sense to the rest of the interweb, I don't care!

Today is the day that I don't talk to Jer, but I had forgotten that it was the most important day of the year until actively browsing and coming across the 'mania. Although the masthead banner changes every week, there are a couple of days that I have the graphic set to something specific. On Oct 6, there is a Vigilante graphic set to come up, and when I saw it on Oct 6 I was confused - mainly because I was pretty sure it wasn't in the current rotation of graphics set to pop-up.

A shook my head and quickly remembered that I do indeed set graphics to come up on certain days, and October is when the whole Vigilante fiasco historically happened. Yep, Oct 6 was the day. And then I laughed. I laughed because the day had slipped up on me and I had totally forgotten about it, a day that had been so crushing to me 20 years ago. I laughed because it was Saturday, and I usually don't talk to Jerry anyway, and he would never know.

Unless...

I sent Jer a text message: Today is the day I don't talk to you on behalf of Adidas.* Two minutes later I received a phone call with a hearty laugh - message received and reason remembered, loud and clear.

Heartless bastard.

*Jerry had always said that Vigilante's costume looked like an Adidas track suit. Although I argued with him over this for years, he does have a point

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YEAAHH!!

10.05.2007

I love health tips from Danish wrestlers:

Bear´s Power Drink : Calculated for 140 kg. combat wight - YEAAHH ! Poor in the blender = 6 eggwhites - boiled in micro wave 2 bananas one cop of quakeroates 1/4 cop fat free youghurt 1 big teaspoone of honey ½ liter orange - aple juice or skimed milk after your taste add aboutop 2 glasses of vater Mix for ca. ½ to 1 min. till mixed Now you are ready to get in the ring with Asbjørn "Bear" Riis NB. : Important every hour of the year : Remember : Keep in Shape - Eat Healthy and Believe in Yourself !! YEAAHH !!

Blended microwaves egg whites make me a little hesitant to try this out. But I'm all about bananas and vater! YEAAHH!!

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1 down, 2 or 3 or 4 more to go!

10.03.2007

I've finally finished one of the sites I was working on (well, I'll be finished over the next couple of days once we poke around and make sure all the bugs are squashed). So I give to you:
3D Huntsville

Josh (from work) is now selling some of his 3Ds models online, and I'm helping him! Well, if making a website is helping.

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Laptop Upgrade

09.27.2007

Last night my laptop finally died. It would occasionally complete booting up, but then lock up. More often than not it would lock up at the beginning of the bios check. For a 5+ year old laptop that's on its 2nd power supply, I think that it's done pretty well. I pulled out the drive, stuck it in an enclosure, and was able to retrieve anything of importance.

All I used the laptop for was mobile web programming - handy for when I was away from home/office and wanted to either get a little work done, or maybe surf the information superweb. It wasn't a powerhouse - I didn't need a powerhouse. I really didn't need a laptop for as little as I actually used it. But it was handy to have.

Mid-day I received an email that would normally be spam, but today it was a little more important. Office Depot was having a laptop sale on their Toshibas. Mom had gotten a Toshiba a couple of months ago and been happy with it. I had even thought of what a good deal she had managed, and that such a computer would work well for my needs were they ever to go on sale again. And now, here they were on sale again, less than 24 hours after my laptop had died.

So off I jaunted to Office Depot to see if they had the laptop which was advertised. They had one. It was meant to be, this joining of me and this laptop, so I gave in to the fates and purchased it. Now Mom and I will be laptop buddies - she's going to have to teach me the ways of the Vista Home Edition. But I think waiting 2 months saved me an extra $100 from what Mom paid. But don't tell her, I wouldn't want her to get jealous.

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Tiptoe Through The Tuna

09.26.2007

When I was growing up, tuna was not the tuna as it came in a Chicken of the Sea can. Tuna was the contents of that can mixed with some boiled eggs and sweet relish. Many other people refer to that as Tuna Salad, but I always believed salad contained lettuce (except Pasta Salad, which I didn't know about back then), so Tuna Salad was tuna (with the mixed in boiled eggs and relish) on top of some lettuce.

In the ensuing years, I've learned people have lots of different ways of preparing tuna. Straight out of the can works - although it's a bit too "Tuna-y" for me most of the time. Fresh, sushi-grade tuna is out there too, but it's one of the forms of sushi that I don't really like. I've slacked off my tuna eating over the past few years, but I now find myself on a new high-protein, personal trainer certified diet where tuna is my friend. As such, I've concocted my own little recipe for tuna (tuna salad for some of you) which I now present here not only to share, but so that I can find it again years after I've burned out on tuna and am ready to try some more again.

Measurements are given in single guy terms. Although scientific and anal about measurements and cooking, I hate cleaning dishes more, so if something comes in a squeeze bottle that's what I'm going to use.

Tuna Con Russy
Makes enough for 6-8 fist-sized servings

• 3 cans of tuna, packed in water
• 8 boiled eggs
• ¼ splortch* sweet relish
• 2½ splortches* dill relish
• 1 splortch* mayo type product
• 1 heavy dusting dill weed
• Another heavy dusting of chives

* A splortch is the sound made by all these squeeze bottles when squeezing. You'll know when you hear it, trust me. If not using a squeeze bottle... a splortch might be equivalent to a blobbing spoon full.

• Open up the tuna and strain in in a colander to get rid of the excess water. While not terribly important, this keeps down on the tuna becoming overly "Tuna-y" over the next day or two.
• Chop up boiled egg whites in a bowl. Be amazed by how much the discarded egg yolks and shells weigh as they're discarded. This tuna is cholesterol friendly!
• Add sweet relish, dill relish, and mayo
• Dump in the less damp tuna
• Stir until either the conglomeration is well mixed or you get tired of stirring.
• Shake on the dill weed - I like dill weed so I tend to add more than a lot of people. The top of my tuna now has a nice green tint to it.
• Add chives. I used dried chives that don't have a lot of flavor, so I add a bunch.
• Stir some more
• Refrigerate over night

That's all there is to it. It tastes exceptionally good on top of plain old lettuce.

Coming soon, a crab salad recipe (after some crab salad testing)!

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