Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Sugar Snob

Like salt, sugar comes in various forms. My favorite form of sugar for several food uses [I will not be discussing non-culinary uses such as totally screwing up someones car by putting sugar into a gas tank] is Sugar in the Raw or Turbinado. This sugar is fine for sweetening coffee, creating a delicious crunchy top for creme brulee… It is also tasty on celery, broccolli, e. coli and salmonilla.

You should try Sugar in the Raw or turbinado sugar, it will expand your horizons and your waistline.

Peterman Which Project

I get asked all the time, “Did you bathe this week?” Which is really annoying. Yes! I bathe once a week whether I need it or not. I also get asked, “Randy? Are you ever going to put more/better pictures of your house on your web site?” And the answer to that is a resounding Maybe. But, for those of you who are not able to travel to our fine estate with acres and acres of fine vineyards, rolling hills to hunt foxes on and experience the spacious living quarters we have…. here’s a large 25MB video (sorry, its in WMV format, so you’ll need the Windows Media Player for your Operating System). You’ll want to save it locally to your hard drive by right clicking on the link and saving the file (in Windows) or using whatever methods are available to you on your operating system. Windows 3.1 users are advised to turn their computers off and buy a Mac. Now.

Oh, and this footage is from when we moved in… so its really old.
Oh, Oh! And this has some bonus footage as well.

I Am Not a Car

One of the things my dad has said throughout my life is that by walking into a church you’re not a Christian, just like walking into a garage doesn’t make you a car. Well, this post is about our garage. It is relatively clean now. Last night Jessica and I spent lots of time cleaning out the garage and I can proudly say that we have room for me to walk around the garage, get into the car and if we were to remove the extra fridge, we could park two cars in it. I wouldn’t recommend two cars in our garage unless we removed the work bench as well, but its clean! Thanks to Jessica’s motivation as a pregnant woman (preggers!) we have a list of things to do before the baby comes and last night we knocked out two. This is a short list, fortunately, but I’m glad to be able to work on it and get it done.

I may post pictures if people ask for pictures of the garage. If you do ask… I may think you’re sick 😉 Maybe we can do a video tour.

Smells Like a Four Letter Word

So, as yet another surprise to my mother, I have eaten fish for the past two days. You see, I used to not like fish. At the present I’m still not a huge fish fan, but I can eat it and not throw up, so that’s a good thing. Yesterday while Abby was admiring the one shoed man, I was eating fish. Hot Fish, hot talapia to be exact. Or, for those of you who like to call it something else, St. Peter’s Fish or Hawaiian Sun Fish. However, today I smell like fish. My skin smells like fish and my nose smells fish constantly. I suppose that if I ate fish regularly this wouldn’t be an issue, but right now I’m just totally overwhelmed by the smell and am ready to take a break.

On the upside the fish oils contain fats that have been recently linked to prevention of alzheimers, which could be quite handy. Also, if I eat enough fish I will be able to grow gils and swim in the ocean like Kevin Costner – and we all know how cool that would be [the swimming, not being like Kevin Costner].

Birthday Wishlist

I get asked by family every year, so here it is…
Here it is, Tuesday, September 13th and I’ve spent all of my spending money for the month. This new album from Switchfoot Nothing is Sound should already be in my iTunes folder so that I can be listening to it, but alas, I have blown my spending money. I got Switchfoot’s first album a long time ago… oh, I think its fair to say I got Legend of Chin before it was official released. I saw them at Spirit West Coast, I saw them play with Five Iron Frenzy, and I saw them at the DFW airport leaving the bathroom. I also saw them play at Six Flags. It is safe to say that I enjoy their music… however, I’m going to have to wait until October 1st to get this one unless someone wants to get this for me for my birthday. I’d also like to get an album from House of Heroes. So if your wondering, “Randy, why would I get you something for your birthday?” The answer is don’t. This is a list for family and a few friends who have too much spending money 😉 iTunes gift cards are nifty if you want something fast and easy for my birthday present. I’d also like the Herbie Hancock CD that is currently being sold only at Starbucks. I dont’ want their coffee, just this CD.

Oh, and a tablesaw and router would be nice. No, not a computer network router, a wood manipulating router. Those are so expensive though that I think I’ll be selling my liver to buy the things 😉

Crocs is Shoes

Abby has these foamy shoes called Crocs (Crocs on Amazon – for picture purposes, I don’t expect you to be buying these 😉 ). She loves them and she actually gets comments on them at times. I write that to say this: last night we were eating dinner at P.F. Changs and a man was seated at the table next to us. He had a serious looking contraption attached to his left knee. I believe the reason was that his left calf and foot were missing as they had been amputated. His other foot was wearing a Croc shoe.

Abby, not seeing the missing foot (because it was missing, not that she didn’t notice it was missing) saw the other foot wearing the croc and said, “He’s missing a croc.” I love my daughter!

Girls of the Gap

Playboy is looking for more women to be turned into cheap eye-candy. I’m pretty certain that someone at the Gap is willing to throw of their inhibitions, and clothes, and be photographed so that guys can look at them naked, and then once they’ve seen that, a few will see them in person (while hopefully they’re wearing some clothes) and then harras and hound them so as to make them feel awkward. Ahh, but getting a discount on jeans is not enough for some people, they want to show off what their mom and dad gave them so that their mom and dad can be utterly embarrassed. Yeah, that’ll be good for all sorts of morale at the threads retailer… “Why buy our clothes, obviously our employees aren’t wearing them.” You’re fired.

Ascending Mount Grays

Grays and Torreys Labeled
Last week I wrote about hiking up to the peaks of Mount Grays and Torreys. I didn’t make Torreys peak. About 100 yards/meters from the peak I got a leg cramp. The down side of this was that I knew my legs had just about had it. The up side was that it was approximately 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celcius) – I couldn’t feel my leg well enough for it to hurt (I was wearing shorts). I stretched out my calf and then finished the hike to the top. I met my party at the top and then told them that I was heading back down. It was really windy and cold at the peak so I cut out and headed back down to the car. I figured I might have to wait an extra hour or so before they got back given that I was leaving early.

My right knee started to hurt and so I found myself walking slowly. About 2/3 of the way down I turned around to see Laban running down towards me. I immediately realized something was wrong because you don’t run down a 14,000 foot mountain. Of course I was the one that was wrong, he, Brian and Jim had run down from the top because, “It was easier than walking.” Color me a wimp buy I didn’t have the stamina or the leg for continued running so they all walked with me limping along to keep up with their well honed bodies.

It was lots of fun and I’ve uploaded some pictures of the trip to my Flickr account. Enjoy 🙂