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The 86 Rules of Boozing (courtesy of Otis, posted at Up For Poker, stolen from Iggy)

so…I’m not a “rah-rah Go America!” type of person. I don’t have anything against the country — some people in the country, sure, but not the geographic location — but I’m pretty much against overt patriotism just for the sake of it…
…I did, however read something is Snowball Earth that gave me an “Americans know […]

so…here’s the rundown of my latest 3-day sojourn from work…
woke up on Friday morning and found out that the disinfectant that I use for my contacts and my new allergy drops are not very friendly with either other. I waited an hour, instead of the 10 minutes the package suggested, before putting my contacts […]

…I can’t imagine eating it…
Who am I kidding?! I would TOTALLY eat it!!
The Hot-Dog-Rollup

so…here’s the list of baseball-themed beers that I’ve found, so far. Let me know if you know of some that I’ve left off the list. (I’ve had the beers in bold.)
Stone Coast’s Knuckleball Bock
Magic Hat’s Bill “Spaceman” Lee Ale
Pete’s Wicked Rally Cap Ale
Boston Beer Works’s Bambino Ale
BBW’s Fenway American Pale Ale
Leinenkugel Ballyard Brewery’s Rally Red
LBB’s […]

so…my new beer drinking task for the Summer is to find and drink any baseball themed beers.
Tonight’s selection: Stone Coast’s Knuckleball Bock — pretty damn tasty! I’ve had three since I got home, and it’s treating me right. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a pilsnery beer…it was great with the bourbon salmon […]

I’m having a little difficulty typing…I’m slowly slipping into a food coma, induced by the short ribs I grilled up tonight.
Spicy Beer-Brined Short Ribs
1 1/2 lbs. Beef Short Ribs
Brine
1 bottle of beer (anything but an American corn-crap beer — tonight I used a Harpoon Munich Dark)
1/4 cup sea salt
1/4 cup light brown sugar
2 tsp. liquid […]

the grillin’ season has been underway for a couple weeks, but yesterday we kicked it up a notch…
We got a new grill!
In our old apartment, our landlord had a grill, so when we moved into the house we only had the Coleman Road Trip grill. It works great for tailgating and camping. I would also […]

so…on Sunday night, I grilled up the first steak of the season. It wasn’t the first grilling of the season, but the first slab of meat…
Erika picked up a nice porterhouse for me the other day, and I was looking for a good marinade…and then I remembered the bottle of Redhook Blackhook Porter. I figured […]

the bestest wife in the whole world, Erika, threw me a kick ass birthday party!
It was a poker themed party and everyone was there — or at least it seemed that way: Erika, Su, Reilly, Jessie, Amy, Druzba, Aram, Matt, Joe (whom I haven’t seen in about 5 years!), Erika’s folks, and my mom. The […]