Feb 28, 2010
Curling
I missed a week of PotD!
Wes, Kim, and I learned how to curl today. Photo of Wes:
Feb 20, 2010
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.
Feb 16, 2010
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]
Feb 15, 2010
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!
Who’s the goofus who went into work on a holiday?
Feb 14, 2010
Still Susan’s Birthday
From the same night, but technically the next calendar day…it’s Adelaide!!
Feb 13, 2010
Susan’s Birthday
I went out with friends to Sundance Square for Susan’s Birthday.
Feb 12, 2010
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.
Feb 11, 2010
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)
Feb 10, 2010
Chillin
Boring picture of the day today…just another shot of the pup. He’s got the demon eyes going on today…
Feb 9, 2010
Homemade Fish Tacos
Sounded great in theory, but it was the most digusting dinner I’ve made in a lonnnng time. Blech!
Feb 8, 2010
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…
Feb 7, 2010
Lap Dog
So pathetic…
Feb 6, 2010
Long Spaghetti
Looks like they forgot to cut a noodle
Feb 4, 2010
Cheap Man’s Dinner
Nuggets, Mac-n-cheese, and peas
