So, I was surfing my blogs and whatnots this morning when I came across a curious note from someone.

Has anyone else ever bought a piece of gear from Icon and discovered a medal of St. Christopher sewn into the pocket?

I happen to use Icon gear and now I’m super curious to check if my jacket has this charm sewn into it. St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers. Speaking of Patron Saints, I don’t know if I’m the only one who didn’t know this, but holy shit there are a lot of patron saints! Even one for computers!! Am I the only one who finds that both strange that there is a saint for computers, and comforting that the church is moving with the times? hmmm maybe comforting isn’t the word…

Yesterday we all got together at Drew and Cyn’s for brats, chips, chicken, and ribs. They have the perfect party pad. Huge back yard patio — that *I* helped build — for fun and games and what not.

It was your standard middle-aged party. The craziest thing we had goin was Guitar Hero II on the back patio on Kev’s huge flat screen TV. Don’t get me wrong, that was fucking awesome as far as I’m concerned. Cyn made her first attempt at ribs, and I’m told they were sprinkled with crack. I promise I’ll try them next time, Cyn…

The big news for yesterday was Ricky and Linnea’s baby girl!!! So, congratz again, you two! That’s such awesome news! You guys are going to be great parents! I’m sure of it.

Lastly, I finally completed my very first ASP.NET project! Woot, yay me! More ranting/raving about ASP.NET in a later post.

Tomorrow, it’s back to the same ol same ol. Punch in, punch out. Take a hit here, take a hit there. Good times. Well, chin up, and I’ll see you guys on the other side of Friday. ;)

Oh, some pictures of Memorial Day fun, behind the cut.

Wanna read the rest of Ahhh Memorial Day.?

This morning I woke to my son screaming, “Where’s mommy!!! MOMMY! I can’t find you!”

I looked over and sure enough, she was gone, and my son was laying in her spot sobbing and whimpering. She just went on her morning run. It’s not like she finally smartened up and rode away with her new knight in shining armor or anything. I knew this instantly, of course, because my son was left there. :)

He was so distraught over mommy not being there. There was no consoling him either. Daddy wasn’t gonna cut it, he needed mommy. Why am I sharing this play by play of my morning? I don’t know. It was adorable, and sad at the same time? Because my mother reads this site and will get a kick out of it? Because I’m bored? I don’t know.

At any rate, it’s things like that which make having a kid the best thing in the entire world. Moments like that really put everything else into perspective. All the stress in your world all of a sudden seem so unimportant. So, just wanted to share my morning with you all and I hope we all take a moment to sit back and get some perspective on our lives.

So, I concocted a new dish which is both easy to cook and yummy to eat. I haven’t written about food in awhile — heck I haven’t written about much of anything in a while, so here’s a new recipe for you. Charles, if you are still reading, you’ll LOVE this dish.

First get some noodles. I use soba noodles, but any noodle works fine, or rice even. Then pick up some meat, peppers, garlic, corn, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar, arrowroot, basil and napa. Grab your favorite single serving wok and oil the bad boy up with some peanut oil. Get that all hot and dangerous, and then press one clove of garlic into the oil. I got a new garlic press this weekend. It’s my newest Can’t Live Without It kitchen tool, but I digress. Chop up some meat into bite sized or smaller bits. Chuck the meat into the garlic and oil. Now take your peppers and grind em up in the mortar and pestal or chop em up if they are fresh. I use these strange little African red peppers. This would be the nuclear part of the mixture. Add the peppers to the wok and give everything a flippity flip or a stir.

While the meat, garlic, and peppers are cooking up all nice, chop up a couple leaves of napa. Chuck the napa, and corn into the wok and do the flippity flip again. Now, add a nice helping of basil to the mix, some soy sauce, and rice wine vinegar. Stir that around a bit. This would be the part where I add the soba noodles, about a 1/4 cup of brown sugar, and then about 1/4 cup of water to the mix and let everything get happy until the noodles are cooked. You will probably have a nice bit of liquid in the mix still. Crank the heat up, and drop in some arrowroot to thicken the sauce up. Once you have a good consistency for the sauce, plate and enjoy. Have a shot of cream on the side for when you are done. ;)

It’s a great breakfast, and leaves the house smelling like roasted garlic for the rest of the day. Your wife will no doubt enjoy the delicate aroma and thank you profusely.

Well, it’s done. I moved over to an IIS server… Yes, I feel dirty. Not in a good way. Got that morally unwashed feeling, like you just shot someone in the back of the head and there’s some guy standing next to you patting you on the back, saying, “Don’t worry. It gets easier…”

Oh, well, gotta take the jump into .NET sometime. Might as well be now…

So, I’m sitting here at work. I’m tasked with getting a new telephone system, yadda yadda yadda… Anyway, I came across a company with a great slogan. Perhaps it’s the overdose of coffee, and lack of nicotine (I’m still a non-smoker! YAY ME!), but I thought it was funny as hell.

KGB Communications - “We have ways of making you talk…”