All Things Chill

Flickr Unboxing Album here. It’s really REALLY late in the game for this (lol pun totally intended), but I *just* got my delivery of Halo 3’s legendary edition at my front door. YAY. The thing is… my Xbox360 is still in Texas for repairs. BLAH. LOL. So I guess [...]

Pan-Seared Ribeye Steak with Truffled Potato Hash
Larger view here. Having a *good* day off really helps when you have a couple of steaks in the fridge that you really REALLY wanna eat. MmmMmMMmmM. I used the same preparation as before to make a really good medium-rare/rare piece of meat, but if you [...]

My man Jorge a.k.a. *fireworks* THE CURIOUS J *fireworks* has a Facebook page. While logged into his account, he decided to drop a bunch of “how do you know this person” tidbits of information on our friends connection. It’s hilarious. It’s excessive. It’s hilariously excessive. LOL. If you can’t [...]

Ben from Opposable Thumbs (ARS WHAT WHAT) let the Internets know that Amazon was dropping the price of Halo 3’s Legendary Edition by $70. You can find a review of the game by Frank here. The collection includes a helmet (which I know Liana would absolutely hate if I put it on display), the [...]

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I spent all day making today’s dinner of (Thanksgiving leftover) turkey congee (jook), chicken and shiitake mushroom with rice in a black bean sauce and stir fry Chinese broccoli. I made a simple turkey stock for a couple hours and then measured out a 1 [...]

Youtube link here. Wow. Not since SFII have I been so excited to play a fighting game. Remember button mashing the hell out of your Super Nintendo controllers (yes, I’m still hating on you Sega Genesis players – 6 face buttons PSH) and quarter-circle (down + down-right + right) cheap-ing your way [...]

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Google Maps link here. I’d like to share to you, dear reader, that I did this drive (as well as its infinite variants) too many times to count… and I hated every single minute of it. EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF IT. lol.
(but I’m totally not bitter)
~Spec

Introducing the Coby 1.5-Inch Digital Photo Key Chain. I just ordered this from Amazon to gauge on whether or not this would be a good Christmas (yes, I’m already working my way down the list) present for my parents, who incidentally, have been lucky enough to get a call from yours truly TWICE on [...]

This is mainly for my use, but I thought I’d share in case you had turkey leftovers. Hee hee.
Morning:
1. Strip meat and breakdown turkey carcass.
2. Throw 1 onion, 4 slices ginger, 6 dried shiitake mushrooms and bones into pot – cover with water.
3. Bring to boil and remove shiitake mushrooms. [...]

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Today my dear,
will be the first,
that I will be alone,
in our new place,
where I will sleep,
while you’re at your “other” home.
I’ll wash,
I’ll dust,
I’ll even scrub,
our residence for you,
so you’ll arrive,
without a care,
just x’s and o’s (beaucoup!),
So I’ll just wait,
a little more,
to see your smiling face,
I miss you dear,
enjoy the sun,
’cause Seattle is such a rainy [...]

Larger view here. Liana and myself with a table of homemade food! We cooked roasted turkey breast, chorizo-apple-walnut sourdough bread stuffing, yogurt garlic mashed potatoes and orange-cranberry sauce… with a LOT leftover for sammiches for the week! MMmmM sammiches here I come!
I have to confess that we also had some crescent rolls [...]

Song: CSS – Music is my Hot, Hot Sex. Made famous in the “new” iPhone commercial. The song was used in a Zune commercial last year (lol). Lovefoxxx, the lead singer is engaged to someone in the Klaxons. And… uhhh… that’s all I have to say about that. LOL.
I just [...]