I stopped by work today to fill out some tax forms and get a parking pass. Work doesn’t start until Tuesday for me, but I like to try and take care of things beforehand. Well, it was Friday and it was also casual day. April started explaining to me how CIS has traditions; for example, Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day - so, if you want to, you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
It was hard not to bust out laughing or follow up my dress code question with one about Swingline staplers binding up less than their Boston counterparts.
We’re in New Hampshire now and everyone seems to be quite friendly. I was a little apprehensive about moving to the East Coast at first, but New Hampshire seems to be a good fit so far. I even saw some guy with “THEDUDE” on his license plate yesterday right after we crossed the state line.
One thing I’m glad I did was to get our internet hooked up on moving day. That is allowing me to post this. It also makes a lot of things much easier like finding directions, contacting people, and finding phone numbers.
They town we’re in isn’t too big, but isn’t too small at the same time. There are plenty of local and chain businesses, but there is also a very down to earth feel about everything. I already have a favorite neighbor that lives upstairs. We’ve seen him outside probably 10x already. He’s a smoker and the building is non-smoking so he makes a lot of trips outside. We found a good pizza place down the street already, and we’re also about 2 blocks from Maine if we feel like crossing the border.
Our apartment building is an old textile mill so our windows overlook a small river out back. I guess the word “small” isn’t very descriptive, but if you grew up next to the Mississippi river close to its widest point, the little trickle out back can only be described as small.
So far we’ve had a lot of people say they’re going to visit us. I think they’ll enjoy doing that if they were serious.
After Liz’s weeks of packing and my several days of concentrated packing, we were able to get our moving truck all loaded up with the help of 8 or 10 friends. Helping people move is something I’ve done a lot, but you never realize what a big deal it is until people help you.
This afternoon, some of the people from yesterday, and a few other friends, met us at Clancy’s for some bowling. On Sundays you can get a lane for $8/hr. That’s a pretty good deal compared to normal charges per person per game.
Tomorrow we’ll be heading out of town on our way to New Hampshire, so if you don’t hear from us for a few days, that’s probably why. The cable company is scheduled to setup our internet on Wednesday so we should be able to check out email then.
I’m real big into comfort food. I love meat, cheese, and potatoes. I call it manfood. I grew up eating what my mom would call Meatloaf Casserole. It’s meatloaf with a layer of mashed potatoes and then cheese on top. It’s pretty stellar.
Since we’re moving in a week, we’ve been trying to eat up all of our food. One way I could do this was make the aforementioned dish, and incorporate bacon. That should work, right? Bacon tends to make every meat more awesome - even bacon!
I thought a while about what to do with the pork. I could work it into the meatloaf, actually wrap it around, put it into the potatoes, put it on top…..I finally settles on cooking the bacon the day before and then chopping it into about 1/2″ to 3/4″ pieces and sprinkling them on top of the meat before I slathered on the potatoes.
I guess the short of the story is that it turned out to be a success. I think Liz was a little skeptical at first, but she enjoyed it too.
I’m a big fan of the television and have been seeing these commercials for the new Indy Whopper at Burger King. I’m always a fan of trying out new, big burgers so I got one today for lunch. As always, the sandwich didn’t really resemble the picture. At first I thought they gave me the wrong thing because all I could see on my sandwich was two meat patties, some lettuce and BBQ sauce. Supposedly this sandwich also came with bacon, cheese and tomatoes (currently on hold because of the salmonella outbreak). After some excavation, I found two pathetic slices of bacon hiding in the sauce. Now there wasn’t that much sauce on there so that tells you how small this bacon was. I’m also guessing I was supposed to request the cheese for a nominal fee.
The burger wasn’t too bad with the exception that all I could taste was crappy BBQ mixed with mayo. I know there’s supposed to be cajun blackened mayo, but either it was super nasty, or I got BBQ, or a wrong sandwich or something. Since I didn’t have the tomatoes to help soak up the sauce and there wasn’t any cheese to help the flavor, it wasn’t exactly an enjoyable meal. Overall, I’d have to say that I’m, once again, disappointed with a new Whopper. It’s also interesting to note that my review of this burger pretty much matches 95% of the reviews I’ve heard/read of the new Indiana Jones movie.
I tell people not to tickle me because 1) I don’t like it and 2) I sometimes flail about and physically damage people. Some people don’t believe me and do it anyways. One of these people, who will remain unnamed, kind of got thrown into a bookshelf last night. Hopefully they learned a lesson.
Blogging tip to all of you bloggers out there: Think about categorizing before you have hundreds of posts.
Now, you might notice the categorizing/tagging on this blog is abysmal. I have no excuses for that. It’s just something I’ve been quite lazy about, however, I’ve recently finished categorizing and tagging all of my posts on my movie blog. I’ve been working on it periodically over the past several months. I’ve categorized movie reviews by movie genres and keywords and then I’ve tagged them by directors, writers, and actors.
This isn’t normally how you would tag and categorize posts because you usually want much more broad and overarching categories. It’s a bit different in this case because these are movies and I’m trying to plan ahead for films with the same themes and what-have-you.
Also, if you haven’t upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, I highly suggest you do. It’s so, so, so, so much better than 2.2 or 2.3.
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