Weeeee! let the games begin!!

The Stuff Fluffielady's Dreams are made of.. Complete with the *Slirrrp*

i find it funny that of all nights to wake me up at 5am, the smoke detector had to beep it's brains out today. Went to nod off and at 8:30am the games began. Pulled out the brined turkey from its overnight soaking and got it ready to rock n roll.
Yesterday i headed to bed, bath n beyond and went hunting for one of those nifty digital thermometer / timer. When i arrived at bed bath n beyond, there was quite a long line at the Honeybaked store, it stretched past the now defunct Magnolia Hi-Fi!
Anyhow, we decided to use one of those heat resistant oven bags. Well cooking a 16 pounder was pretty fast, the alarm went on at 161 degrees at the thigh but something was weird. There wasn't much coloring, it wasn't that super golden brown. We didn't know if it was funky digital electronics (which seems to be my case, things never work exact to how i expect or want it to be) but we cooked it a bit more, another 30min. I think the coloring lied to us and the digital probe was spot on, because it was semi-dry on the top parts but still very moist on the rest. It's an evolution of sorts and next time, no bag, i think the bag steamed the turkey more than anything.
After, all the rest of the goods were made, a rib eye roast was added into the mix along with all the usual accoutrements. The rest of the familia came over and it was all good. Jennys pumkin pie was yum and it vanished quickstyle.
That concluded the noontime thanksgiving. Now for the thanksgiving dinner with Jerry-o:

Jordan N Jerry
Jerry n Vicky came up from LaLaLand with their newborn Juliana, shes cute n soo sleepyheaded, sounds like shes got that from jerry's side. Hung out with some old school buddies n chit chatted around. Jerry's spread involved half a cow, a pig, an armada of shrimp, and some steamed veggies. yumz, jordan had to sleep early and get ready for black friday at best buy at 4am, woo!

Talk about foodz, i predicted yesterday that theres gonna be a whole lotta foodage coming this weekend.

Labels: Thanksgiving

Yesterday we got busy. At 6:30am my brother comes over and the silliness begins. Evans on Turkey Duty, Fluffielady is decorating and i'm the rest, whatever it is. Fluffieladys parents come over fairly quickly, they left at 5:30am and arrived around 10:30am or so. Alot better then 2 years ago, it was a madhouse drive. Turkeyday is the worse driving period for LA and Highway 5. I find it quite funny, everybody in LA heading towards the Bay Area, and everybody in the Bay Area heading towards LA.


We do this.. Table Ready..


Man can you say Food Coma.. There was ALOT of butter involved i this one.


Uh, we need milk. Wherecha wanna put it?

Today:
We all just hung out n was lazy. We don't do the Black Friday Sillieness, nada. Anyhow theres nothing to get in the first place.

And since my '97 Specialized AIM was retired. My original intent was to have it hanging on the Fireplace Mantle. But Noooo, someone had to override my decorating ideas. At least that someone was ok with my bike hanging on the stairway. Yep, hanging. 25Lb Test line should work on this 4-6Lb Frame right?
Tommorrowz our new washer and dryer is to be delievered.

Labels: Bicycle, Thanksgiving

You will gain the knowledge of the world if you touch it. Touch it!

Yesterday Fluffielady and i roamed off to Redwood City to hang out at Carol n Matty's Gobble Gobble Pot Luck DinDins. Carol went on an all out foodfest and cooked enough for many a families! We finally got to see their new digs, fatty boat and of course an *almost* a full service fish n tackle shop in Matty's Romper Room. He thinks its slightly getting out of hand. Just Slightly.
The food was very yums, it's one of those fill-up-your-plate-and-eating-halfway-through-your-stuffed kinda deals.
Afterwards a brave gentleman who waited 28 hours at a target, got his hands on 2 PS3's and couldn't resist the urge to break one open. He was handling it as if it was the Gutenberg bible (one of 12 on display at the Huntington Library!). He forgot the Cotton Gloves, but the packing wrapper will do. After turning it on, settings upon settings took place. It looked like the PSP menu system, but waaaay more expansive, theres a million options to go through. Silly thing is after that, patches were installed! Firmware patches, wireless driver patches. Holy cow it was patch-o-rama. Finally Loaded up Resistance: Fall of Man. I'm hoping that it was since we were all in a haste and wanted to play that we used RCA video cables just to see the goodies that it didn't have the rendering and shading effects that i wanted to see. It didn't seem like there was any HDR, shading, shadows of any sort. Maybe i'm just spoiled by playing F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2 with most of it's visual effects. The main thing i don't like about these WWII style games is that it's depicted in a 'WWII movie' style. Where it's kinda soft visuals with a sepia tint. Come on people, just because there was black n white movies the 1900's doesn't mean the world was black n white back then.
The effects were ok, one weapon that i had, whenever i shot it just lit up the whole screen with flame and flashes. Kinda blinding in a epileptic kinda way. Another cool tidbit was the PS3's Controller looks exactly like the PS2 except that it has a Mini-USB plug and 4 little LED's numbered 1-4. Its pretty light weight and then we realize it's wireless! The other difference was the L2 and R2 buttons arc down when you press it. Pretty cool.
Just like the PS2 everybody Oooos and Ahhhs the Obelisk that the PS3 is. For me i'm more of a Keyboard / Mouse kinda person. Anyhow the PS3 is prety much a computer. So for me i'll just stick to my computer.
But dankies go to Carol N Matty! For the yummies and for having us there. =)

Labels: Crew, Thanksgiving