Archive for June, 2005

Danny Glover

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Codi and I had breakfast at one of our favorite restaurants this morning. After eating an amazing apple pastry, Codi noticed that we were sitting two tables away from Danny Glover. I decided to pick up his breakfast tab for fun and as a small token of respect for ...

Best BBQ in Oregon

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

I had lunch at Buster's Barbecue, the best BBQ place in Oregon. It's 100% hick, all country and no rock-n-roll, it reeks of hickory and BBQ sauce, always has country music playing, and they run the place cafeteria-style, with trays, etc. No class, but awesome brisket and ...

Laura’s New Apartment

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

I spent most of the afternoon painting Laura's new apartment. She and her roomies chose some bright and fun colors. The place is going to look really good once it's all set up.The west wall of the living room gets lilac.This room gets two walls of lettuce green ...

Sean Penn and Iran’s Ass

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

This one is better than most of Google News' ill-fated abbreviated news titles.

Ad Placements at PC Mag

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

I was looking up reviews of the Sony Vaio Z1WA laptop and this is the entirety of the page that PC Magazine gave to the review. I can see now what PC Mag is more interested in promoting. Two small, poorly contrived sentences and two huge, obvisouly contrived ...

Roasted Garlic White Pizza with Garlic Sauce

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Using this recipe, I made an awesome roasted garlic pizza - sort of like a pizza margherita.First, I roasted fresh elephant garlic in spiced olive oil. I then made a butter/flour/cayenne white sauce and blended the roasted garlic. It took 2 hours to air the garlic smell out of ...

What the…???

Friday, June 10th, 2005

I checked the mail this morning and found the funniest thing I have ever pulled out of the mailbox. Proctor & Gamble sent me a sample of Pampers diapers! Ha ha ha! It started with baby formula and now it's graduated to diapers! What's next?!

Codi + iPod = codiPod

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Codi and I had our 41st (monthly) anniversary yesterday. I got Codi a pink iPod to celebrate. Is she happy with it? Um, just a little!

Bridgeport Village Apple Store

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Codi and I went to the grand opening of the new Apple store at the Bridgeport Village shopping center. There were hundreds of people in line all the way around the building. There may have been close to 1,500 people that showed up. There were ...