I’ve been slacking on my blogging duties of late. I’ve been contemplating keeping some things to myself or expressing them here. Selective discussion it is!
Let’s see, we had a quick ultrasound of the baby on Wednesday, the “big” one is in week 20, so 5 weeks away (July 30th). We’re still trying to decide if we want to know the sex of the baby. We’re also on task to find a crib. Um… pick 5, throw a dart, I think. So many options too! Convertible, color, the way the rail opens. Then after you cough up the cash for that, you still need to buy bedding, a mattress and about 1,000 other things! Yaaaahhhh!!! Head-first slide!
Geno popped in for a ride to the airport on Wednesday. He flew down to Houston to see his new wife. He came back on Sunday and drove down to Chicago. It took NWA 1 hour to get the baggage from a 50 passenger plane to the baggage claim area. I don’t work at an airport, nor do I have the desire to do so. But how long can it take? Oh well. Not a huge deal for me, but to wait that long… ick.
Bobby has departed our household. He was picked up by Krissy and driven up to ND for a life full of love and tenderness (and hunting!) I hope he makes a great pet up there. It wasn’t his fault, we just couldn’t deal with him any longer. I’m sure he’ll be happy as can be up there!
Two gigs this weekend, Diamonds and After Midnight. We had a special guest drummer on Friday – George Hamilton! My old friend from the Shaky Jake days. Brent “Cookie” B. had some family matters to take care of in Montana and Geo was kind enough to step in and slam the skins for a night! Most songs were “old hat” to us, with some interesting “changes”! All in all, Diamonds was a blast, including the fantastic crowd! The Owatonna bar I could do without. Small stage, strange bar, no crowd… but big bucks. I’m not sure the reward makes up for the quest on that one. That’s the life for us!
Beth and I think we’re going to skip our trip to AK this year – and reschedule after baby next summer. She’s going to be 6 months along and probably pretty miserable trying to walk paths and what not. So we’re thinking ocean side to roll her out to or some kind of spa treatment. looking into it! Arizona? South Carolina? Cali? We’ll see.
Food- we finally went to this Thai restaurant we’ve been eying since we worked at the casino. We’d drive by it and say, “Hey, we should go there sometime.” 4 years later, we finally did. It was AWESOME! I had some noodles with chicken and brocolli over it with a nice black bean sauce (Na Dau or something). Beth had Pork Noodle Soup. They let you pick the level of spiciness… Beth took old one star, I took 3 (of 5). Pretty much perfect for me… just so my eyes started to tear up and it didn’t burn my mouth all up. We’re definitely going back.
Complete opposite for the “snack” we had Saturday. I went to Hooters (B’ville) and met up with Bob for a while during Gusso’s bachelor party day. I bought some wings for Beth, Naked, lowest hot level… complete crap. Greasy, messy, no flavor having crap. That’s 0-2 for Hooters and the end of even trying it. And the service wasn’t that great.
I may start to report on every time I hit up a restaurant. I get completely fed up with bad service, cold food, and dumb add-ons for my dinner bill. Perhaps a rating of the best places I ate for the week/month and worst. Hmmm… Side job of an undercover food-tester?
Other than that, not a whole lot going on. Just day-to-day doings in a pre-baby, IT, and band driven world! No pictures this time. Perhaps later!
So Beth and I were feeding the fish and staring at them after cleaning the basement this weekend and she got all excited… “Look, look, BABY FISH!!!”
