Apostrophic Chunder

Just had some delicious moussaka, orzo, and spanakopita. Now enjoying a Greek lager, traditional music, and dance. All courtesy of the Orthodox Church on Amherst.

In this case it's coconut chocolate butter cream. We get crazy on Saturday night. Party. The cake has a lil' bit of Dogfish Head honey rum in it.

Sometimes we make cakes in the middle of the night. The cute reflection in the oven door is my special lady friend's pajama bottoms.

Moved to a new space a couple of miles from the beach and it is huge and very well appointed...

The 176 crew is In VB for a night and a day. W00t is all I have to say.

My Pop.

Sushi Sashimi Combo ... Half Gone

Observation: Often those who discourage you from doing what you dream are the ones who gave up on their dreams and settled for less. They don't want to see you doing something with your brain or your life, so chuck those negative nellies the hell out with last week's recycling. Kids: this doesn't apply to your Mum telling you it's a bad idea to do a backflip off the house into the pool with your bike. She's right, and she does want to see you do something with your life.

This is my 2012 to do list. Look blog don't be a smartass - I know they aren't all verbs. I keep seeing references to some research or book indicating that it takes 10,000 hours of practice (challenging yourself and continuously improving, not just milking the clock) to become an expert at anything.  So I figure If I focus mostly on those things with asterisks, I'll be pretty busy until I have to take that dirt nap (be cremated, actually).  Also, given that I am 4 months from completing my BS in CS I realize there should be some nerdy bits here like programming a site to keep track of penguin mutations, build a gps-enabled cross-platform vendor-neutral crowd-sourcing natural disaster response system, and a throw together a shell script that improves the Human Development Index for citizens of the developing world... but I am Le Tired of computing right now. Surprised? Well you should have been paying attention to all those hours I've been logging on this insipid addictive calcumatronic social-media screeny thing. There's a thingy for the phone too, so you can IMDB the lesser known constellations and win spelling arguments. So yeah... I want to wander off and be hard to reach for a while, give away all my stuff, study obscure historical figures and events, and cook weird stuff with the old ball and chain at home.  You know, stuff.

I can tell you're just barely hanging onto your lunch, so excited to see my to 2012 do list.

Here it is.

art*
bike*
capoeira*
cook
design*
dust
exercise*
garden
golf
guitar*
heal
jettison
karate*
music*
read
record*
reflect
relax
run*
sleep
studio*
surf*
swim*
tai chi*
train*
travel
triathlon*
wushu*
yoga*

Open invitation here guys, if you would like to participate in any of these activities contact me anytime in 2012.  Oh, except for sleeping. I trust we can keep doing that separately as it's been working out so well.