Amazon!!

I got a nice parting gift in the mail from Bank of America today. It won’t regain my business, but I’ll take it!
(I already applied it to my account, so don’t bother stealing the number)

Jarret Lukin

The players all went to Boston’s after the game and I got Lukin to sign my jersey.

New Jersey

My new jersey with el capitán on the back :)

Curling

I missed a week of PotD!

Wes, Kim, and I learned how to curl today. Photo of Wes:

Allen Americans Picnic

The Allen Americans hosted a picnic for the season ticket holders. MOOYA Burgers catered, and I was impressed. It’s hard to find good pickles in a restaurant, much less a catered burger. They delivered the goods. It was pretty cool hanging out with the players and chit chatting, and I also won a door prize: 20% off of the team shop in addition to the 20% off I get as a season ticket holder. Pretty cool.

Here’s a picture of Brenda, Harlan, and I posing with goalie Chris Whitley.

Warren & Susan…Engaged!

Lots of Susan posts this week. Warren P’d the Q on V-Day, and she said yes (duh).

[I didn't take this picture]

iPod Jack for my car

Back when I got my car stereo in 2005, I plugged a cord into the auxiliary input so that I could listen to my iPod on the car speakers. Since then, that cord has been dangling from a hole in the dashboard. It’s not pretty. I’ve been meaning to create my own in-dash input, but just never got around to it…until today.

I went to Radio Shack and picked up a 1/8″ stereo input jack and sleeve. Then I cut the tip off of the cord that’s been hanging out of my dashboard. As luck would have it, Honda sold my particular model with an “unnecessary” removable blank plate next to the cigarette lighter. I was able to pop it out and drill a hole in it for my new jack. Once I threaded the wire through the hole, I soldered the jack to the wire and screwed the sleeve back on to create a tight fit. I popped the plate back into the dash, and viola…pretty dashboard with auxiliary input. Now I just need to clean my car!

Sorry I didn’t take any pictures of the soldering process. I completely forgot!

President’s Day

Who’s the goofus who went into work on a holiday?

Still Susan’s Birthday

From the same night, but technically the next calendar day…it’s Adelaide!!

Susan’s Birthday

I went out with friends to Sundance Square for Susan’s Birthday.

A Gift for the Players

The drum that Harlan’s been bringing to all of the Allen Americans hockey games is officially dead, so we decided to give it to the players last night. We all signed it and presented it to Justin Bowers.

It says “Allen Americans Inaugural Season Drum” and is signed by Jon, Brenda, Harlan, and myself.

I just realized while posting this that it’s actually pretty fitting that we presented it to Bowers. He scored the first goal at the AEC. First drum…first goal scorer.

Snow Day

In my 30 years of living in Dallas, I have never seen this much snowfall. EVER. Around 2pm or so I would have said that I’d seen that much accumulation, just not from constant snowfall. It literally snowed all day long. It’s been constant. Well…as of 10pm or so, I haven’t even seen that much accumulation. I think we’ve had a FOOT of snow now.

Early AM snow:

The tree on the right is now collapsed under the weight of all the snow. It’s not standing:

A bunch of my friends built snowmen:

Daniel’s snowman

Gina’s snowman

Jon & Brenda’s snowman

So I built a few. Mine aren’t as good, though. I couldn’t even find stuff for eyes, a nose, or a mouth!

Nottingham Forest snowman

Allen Americans snowman

FC Dallas snowman (I couldn’t find my horn hat)

Chillin

Boring picture of the day today…just another shot of the pup. He’s got the demon eyes going on today…

Homemade Fish Tacos

Sounded great in theory, but it was the most digusting dinner I’ve made in a lonnnng time. Blech!

This sandwhich tastes like paper

Apparently there was some paper between two slices of cheese that I didn’t notice. I thought it tasted funny. Chewy too…