Kevin's Watch

Not so sure that steamed pumpkin would taste all that good. And it might be a bit messy to serve...

Queue slow bluesy music....



My baby done left me alone....
All weekend long.

She's gone out a-dancin'
While I'm stuck in this home.

Don't know what I'm gunna do
I'm bored outta my mind.

Th' kids are driving my crazy
They fightin' al the time!

Ohhhhhhhh

Been countin' the minutes.
Ever since she's gone.

Won't go to bed tonight
'Cause I can't sleep alone.

-Gunna be a long night
With no one to talk with.

-Gunna be a long night
With no one to laugh with.

-Gunna be a really cold night.
With no one to lay with

-DOn't know how I'm gunna make it
With out my bedtime kiss.

Menolly wrote:Not so sure that steamed pumpkin would taste all that good. And it might be a bit messy to serve...

Actually I'm goin' out right now to get some sausage casings so's i can make some chicken mango sausage for the FBH/Kevin's Watch BBQ at my hut next weekend. Never made sausage before and I'm dyin' to give this new attachment to my kitchenaid a whirl. So if there is a BBQ today it will entail taste testing for watchers. If they're good I'll put the details in Kevin's Cookbook, if not, then oh, crimeny.

Menolly wrote:However, I am of the opinion that many American parents of infants and toddlers (I do not know how compulsive parents have gotten in other countries) do more harm than good with their incessant anti-bacterial wiping and cleansing. I truly believe exposure to lower level germs and bacteria helps build a stronger immune system.

I know we've discussed it elsewhere, (maybe now the search function is working we can find out where), but I totally agree with this. Let 'em eat dirt and bugs and stuff...

--A

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Menolly wrote:However, I am of the opinion that many American parents of infants and toddlers (I do not know how compulsive parents have gotten in other countries) do more harm than good with their incessant anti-bacterial wiping and cleansing. I truly believe exposure to lower level germs and bacteria helps build a stronger immune system.

I know we've discussed it elsewhere, (maybe now the search function is working we can find out where), but I totally agree with this. Let 'em eat dirt and bugs and stuff...

--A

Or half eaten boxes of candy that we find at the theat.....uhh.....

:giggle:

Not the healthiest thing to do, germs notwithstanding, Balon. There are better choices for snacks than theater candy, although they won't necessarily be free...

Met my girlfriend's ex-girlfriend Friday night. She was very nice and I had a good time. Then the next day we (my girlfriend and I) went ice skating and then on to Dave & Busters and played a heapa videogames, and some skeeball and shot hoops in that contained game thingy. Got a lot of tickets, had a lot of fun, and became achy as hell. I'm getting old. It's time I admit it.

Yesterday, went and saw Transformers with a friend and was particularly lazy the rest of the day. Which I needed because I was sore. Also, I ate some habinero dip in the morning that I spent the rest of the day trying to get out of my body. I could use another day like yesterday to recover - fulla laziness. I'm exhausted right now - woke up early for a second interview, and all the adrenaline in my body is gone now, so I could really use a nap or five.

Cheval wrote:Took one of my grandsons to a movie last night,
going to play some cards tonight (Canasta),
and tomorrow will be taking my daughter out for her 30th birthday.

Just another dull weekend.

Also went to see a concert last night:
Edgar Winter Group and Deep Purple.
Whatta show!!!


Deep Purple had Edgar Winter and his band come out to play a little jam session (with a little Frankenstein) and then went right into Smoke On The Water.

My weekend is going fairly well thus far. Made a sausage pizza watched The Game and Apocalypto]/i] with Sam, and now I'm surfing for a bit before reading and sleep.

tomorrow I see a hammock and some ice tea.

I'm excited about this weekend. Friday morning I jump in my sweet ride, my 1996 EF Ford Falcon for a cruise up the Hume highway to Sydney to see my wife for Harry Potter weekend. We'll have a lazy couple of days, her reading the new book and me finishing Robin Hobb's Renegade's Magic, and just taking it easy together in Bondi. Then Monday morning I jump in my car and cruise home to Melbourne again.

Time with my wife, and some quality wheel-time, bring it on!

I'll be sleep-deprived this weekend. Batty's working the Harry Potter midnight release party at the bookstore in our old neighborhood, so I'll be up 'til oh-dark-thirty Saturday to pick her up and get her home. Then at about 2am Sunday, I've gotta pick up MagickMaker from the Amtrak station when she gets back from her weeklong trip to Niagara Falls with her gram. I figure that gives me almost exactly 24 hours to finish reading MagickMaker's copy of Harry Potter before she gets home....

I'm off to watch the rugby game this weekend, All Blacks vs Australia. I can hardly wait, its been years since I went to a live game, and i've never been to one this big.

This weekend will be devoted to reading the latest HP book. At least Saturday will anyway. Then I have to go shopping for something to wear to the FBH finale.

If I can get a copy of the book, I'll be right there with ya, Jenn!!

Belated thanks to Av, Luci and Lore for your comments on the Folkfest pics. Yes, up close, I can really appreciate what a marvelous design of nature a dragonfly is.

I noticed the dragonfly thumbnail on the previous page went AWOL, but I think the link itself still works. Oh, and sorry for the fuzziness of some of the shots: even the 6x optical zoom on my little Canon couldn't make out the musicians on the mainstage very well, so I had to resort to digital zoom, which just blows up the picture without any increase in actual resolution. How I wished I had something like Luci's 12x zoom Canon S3 on me. My next camera will definitely be of the mega-zoom species.

More Folkfest pics to inflict on the Watch...I liked these works from the Young Artists' Exhibition:

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More favorite Fest peformers:

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Left to right: Todd Snider, Leo Kottke, Caroline Chocolate Drops, Los Lobos (yeah, crappy shot)

I generally avoid singer-songwriters, but Snider was a very engaging, funny and no-nonsense kind of guy, and he wasn't afraid to get political. Leo Kottke mumbled his way in between songs, but at least his musicianship was mesmerizing. The guy is a magician of the acoustic guitar. The Caroline Chocolate Drops are specialists in the old-tyme music of the North Carolina Piedmont - if you don't know what that is, just think the fiddle music from some of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons! For me, the Chocolate Drops was maybe the most fun act next to Johnny Cajun. The kind of "old-fashioned" music this trio plays would probably seem lame when heard and seen on Lawrence Welk, but when played live in a festival setting by contemporary practitioners like the Drops, the music's energy is infectious. Los Lobos was pretty awesome, too, and a re-discovery for me. I had known them only for "La Bamba" so it was great to experience their sound live, and a big sound it was. Los Lobos played on the final night of Folkfest, and they sent me home on a high.

Going to Sea World - Orlando for the weekend.
Catch y'all later!






I'm outta here.

I am going to be writing my Psychologist Supervision proposal for the Psych Board, help my parents with their tax, use my telescope, and maybe study maths.

Harry Potter party tonight at Books-A-Million and then a weekend spent reading Deathly Hallows!!

Yeah baby!!

Free Severus!!!

Sitting in my room reading HP all weekend. I refuse to sleep until I figure out what happens to Snape. His fate is especially important to me, because he's my favorite character AND I've got quite a few bets riding on his innocence.

It's the start of vacation for me. I don't have to be back to work until the 31st.