Football Epilogue

It's been tough going for those who define themselves by going to the gym. The gym selfies on Facebook profiles and dating sites, taken from the locker rooms and in front of the squat racks, have started to feel dated. You wonder if some of these folks will end up like: from Imgflip Meme Generator While my gym rat days feel behind me, I still got in a few days a week. Enough to feel good and stay in decent enough shape. I think the cabin fever of not having a place to go and do some lifting and hamster-style cardio has finally started to catch up with me. Yard and house projects have been doing a good job of helping me work up a sweat, but sometimes I just want to be able to turn the brain off, turn on some music and get my heart rate up.  The cardio portion hasn't been too bad. I've been going on brisk walks to break up my work day and I've been doing some jogging around the neighborhood. I have good one, two and three mile loops not to mention there's always th...

  Since I'm not cooking for more than three people the vast majority of the time I prefer the smaller grill experience. My current setup is a tabletop gas grill similar to this . I simply have the grill on top of a table with the propane cyliner underneath.  While this works well, I'd like a tabletop charcoal option as well.  While choices aren't limited for small charcoal grills, they really are limited to foldable picnic varieties with minimal heated surface. For example most people are  familiar with the classic Weber "Smokey Joe" grill. It's the tabletop, parking lot, campsite portable grill benchmark. One of the best steaks I ever had was cooked on top of ol' Smokey. It's typically good for just two or three burgers with a few hot dogs intermittently spaced.  Enter "Big Joe" . While not as big as me, this has bit bigger of a grilling area so all the kabobs and corn and potatoes and jalapeno poppers can be better fit in. Still BJ is highl...

My daughter wanted requested I put celery in this years garden. In doing a little looking I found that you can actually grow a host of foods from your grocery scraps, celery included. I had some partially wilted celery in the fridge, i.e. too floppy to eat, so I gave it a try. It's exceedingly simple, just take the last couple inches of the stalk and put it in water. Fresh stalks started growing about a week after "planting". These can be moved to soil after growing to a couple inches in length. Other plant you can do this to include: lettuce and cabbage onions potatoes ginger pineapple I'm sure there are a number of other plants too. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for prime rib.

I've heard it occasionally joked that the hardest words for people to say are "I was wrong". This makes for humorous anecdotes such as Clark having the hubcaps stolen off of the Griswold family truckster from being too stubborn to ask for directions or pretty much anything Homer does in The Simpsons. I even have a couple memorable moments where my confidence got the best of me. For example, when my kids, the ex and I lived in Maryland we rented a nice three-level townhome in Gaithersburg. There was extra family room space in the basement, but the stairs had a rather tight turn to get into the stairwell. Still, we decided a couch would be nice down there so I took out my tape measure and did a little geometry. Unfortunately, I did this math a little more like back of the envelope physics than engineering, i.e. I pretty much assumed a 2D couch. Much to the dismay of my ex-wife and the delivery guys, the couch did not fit! I was at work and even tried to tell them on the ph...