Rutabaga

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Last night we went to our friends, the Kaes, house and had a blast. We (as in not me, but my wife and Krystal) made lots of Mexican food and then ate it (which is good) and it was quite tasty especially since not one thing on the table had wheat in it! Yummy.

However, I must say that I prefer our toilet paper over theirs. And Craig, since I know you read this… thank you for having toilet paper since while climbing Mt. Bierstadt I thought, “I hope I don’t have to go potty.” We have the nice soft Cottonelle toilet paper which we enjoy as much as one can enjoy a piece of semi-abrasive material on ones skin. I don’t know why I had to write about this other than it was a distinct thought I remember from last night. You see my allergies were bad. The ragweed plant, which I think is misnamed, is polinating right now, which means the air is filled with little tiny bits of nasty stuff designed to wipe me out [and thus we’ve come full circle with the wiping].

We played a game called, “Hear Me Out!” which could be fun, and had some funny moments, but the problem was that we kept landing on one of two mini-games that made it too much of the same thing. However, at one point in time Krystal compared herself to a white tiger and Craig proudly proclaimed, “I love vegetables because without them I couldn’t say Rutabaga with a straight face.” He then followed it by talking about how legumes make you gaseous. We all were busting up (including Brian, who was hanging out with us) outrageously at that point and so we ended that round and called it quits lest we have to play the ‘brainstorm’ mini-game again.

Oh, and for the record, Jon Doyle and I leading some of the music Sunday morning went quite well and the congregation seemed to like it. Or, at the very least no one ran out screaming 🙂

Test Your Web Projects in Konqueror

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I’m using SuSe Linux and it rocks. But it is not installed on my Desktop. Nope, it is on a CD-ROM where it boots from when you start up the PC. Of course you could install it as a dual boot OS on your PC, but that’s your choice. Cool things included in the installation are spell-check built into the text areas of Konqueror, the ability to use the TAB key to actually put tabs in the text area and the fact that the User Interface is clean, fast and looks nicer than Windows XP. I’m very pleased with the performance of the OS and will probably install it here on my desktop soon.

Download this useful version of Linux at http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/ftp/live_eval_int.html

The Hike

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The climb up the mountain (I can’t remember the name of it for anything) was awesome. It kicked my behind-side but it was a good experience. If you come to Colorado (assuming you don’t live here) I’ll take you up there to see it even if you don’t hike it. I’ll have pictures up soon. The air up there is… thin. or what feels like make-believe. It is like God let Mr. Rogers design the air because it was really hard to breath as I was ascending. However, the ascention was slowly but surely achieved and we had a great view of all sorts of mountains and hills. You will see in the pictures that they don’t do justice to the real thing.

The hike averaged 1,000 feet of climb every mile (so 3 miles = 3,000 feet up) as we started around 11,004 feet. Cool stuff, but completely exhausting. I’ll report more when I wake up from the tiredness.

Psalm 121

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A psalm of ascent
1I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?
2My help [cometh] from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.
7Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul.
8Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.

Since I’m about to ascend, I thought this little play on words was witty, but right now I’m pretty tired. The noises and my own normally staying up later made it hard to sleep last night. Anyway, see you in a while!

Julia Child, 91, Dies

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As I just found out, I had to report that Julia Child died. While many people don’t know it, I like food. I also like PBS and so sometimes those two would mix and I’d see Julia on PBS teaching the cameramen how to cook. Fortunately the cameramen shared with the editors and the TV food-chain so that I could watch. By the time she died she had osteoporosis so bad that she was really hunched over, however, her perky, squeaky voice continued on with delight as she dipped her hands into the ingredients, many of which I wouldn’t touch, and delightfully mashed, chopped, frapped, hammered, sliced, sauted, baked and ate various foods.

May her heritage continue on.

The Last Supper

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Or Jesus Serves
Just imagine Christ finishing washing His disciple’s feet – dining with them, partaking in the breaking of bread and then they look down onto the table and see this:
Jesus Serves
That would totally have ruined the atmosphere.

I got this whilst eating at the Souper Salad a while back and had to share.

List of Company Name Etymologies

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Since I know most of my readers really get a kick out of words here’s a great link about business names and where they came from: List of company name etymologies – Wikipedia.

Props to Dave O’Hara, Mad Scientist, Programmer, Husband and Dad. Oh, and my friend, too 😉

And if you don’t get a kick out of words, shame on you, there are starving kids in China. And lastly Etymology is the study of the root of words and languages. entomology (commonly confused with etymology when pronounced) is the study of insects.

Brothers BBQ

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I miss the North Main Barbecue in Euless, Texas – even more so now that I had some Brothers BBQ, a barbecue joint here in CO. They’ve apparently won awards in CO for their food, but by my Texas standards they have to learn a lot more. I’ll write more later, but for now, I’m just going to say: staffing counts for something and heating your beans before you serve them is a good idea. That is all for now. Next week we’ll work on Beans 102: don’t dump 4 parts black-pepper to 1 part beans into your beans recipe.

Bladder Control

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I finally lost control and bought a bladder. A hydration bladder that is. One for hiking. Since I’m going to ascend to the height of Mt. Everest divided by two and subtract a whole bunch on Saturday I thought I should bring plenty of water. For me plenty of water means about five or six gallons, but they didn’t make any personal hydration units that held that much water (I can’t imagine why not). So I bought this back pack and I’m ready to hike with a little over two liters of water strapped to my back.

What is even funnier than me playing with a bladder is that I could play with the bladder with Abby. I filled it up (cleaned it) and then slowly but surely got her pretty wet by spraying water into her mouth and missing most of the time. She thought it was good fun and so she kept coming back for more in-your-face water squirting. The down side is that this bladder needs to be held up in the air while you just let it go, however, if you’re sucking on the water, it matters very little what you’re doing with the bladder.

Fun has been had and it’s almost worth the $30.00+ dollars it cost me just in the fun with Abby.