27
Apr
Some of my longtime readers might be wondering why I am posting recipes all of a sudden. I know i have posted a few over the years but never this many in such a short period of time. Well I am teaching Mrs. Vicious 
how to cook and posting recipes here gives a nice point of reference. Some of the recipes will be whole meals with sides included and possibly a little more instruction than is necessary for your average hobbyist cook bur that’s beacause Mrs. Vicious’s mom never taught her to cook so I am starting from scratch here. Now that’s not to say that the Mrs. isn’t good at cooking. She made pork chops the other night, breaded and pan fried, that were frankly some of the best I’d ever had. It made me very happy! I am going to cross post at my brother’s recipe site as well so that they can be shared there as well.
I am still getting used to the new job and whatnot. I have more stuff to post on the state of the church in America but I want to give those pieces more attention that I have to offer at present. I am sure more is forthcoming but I have to find my balance first. Heck it’d be nice if I could make it to church on a regular basis. Anyway that’s another post all to itself. Hopefully more later folks. Enjoy the recipes.
2
Apr
Those of you have been keeping up with me via my tweets (either following me on twitter, seeing the digest posts here, or the crossposted digests on facebook) know that I have a new job and it’s going well. This post is pretty much just a test of a desktop application to post entries here (http://www.romeosidvicious.com) so I don’t have my personal blog in the browser. Don’t get me though: the new job doesn’t care if I post blog entries while I work. I just prefer not to have it open in the browser for some inexplicable reason.
If this works I have something that impressed me that I want to share. If it doesn’t then I’ll test the next application. I wish I could add this to tweetdeck so I had a single point for everything!
19
Feb
This is a departure from my recent diatribes, heck some of you may be grateful for that, but I need to get this out even though I doubt it will help. I did not get the call today so I am going mad. There is a very rational explanation and it’s not a rationalization. The guy’s wife is having a baby and he was hoping for a delivery date last weekend so it may well have happened today. That’s what my lovely wife keeps telling me anyway. All I know is that I spoke with him about 1430 and he hadn’t sat down with the necessary people and assured me he would call. Now the light in all of this is that he hasn’t missed a call and doesn’t seem like the type of fellow to shy away from delivering bad news so I must assume something came up because I have had a call from him on time even to deliver a verdict of no news at all.
All the rational reasoning in the world isn’t letting me sleep at the moment. There is simply no sleep in sight. My stomach is in knots and I am quite frankly a little sketchy. It’s all nerves and it sucks right now. The worst part is that I know this will make me miserable tomorrow. I just can’t face being alone in the quiet with all the doubt at the moment. So here I sit worrying about my lack of a job, where I get the money to pay my mortgage, how I will put food on the table, and all the worry in the world doesn’t provide a single answer.
I guess the upshot is I can get caught up on some TV the wife doesn’t enjoy all that much…
Ok well maybe not that bad but let me paint a picture of what I have to deal with concerning food.
As many of you know I am a bit of a food aficiando. I love the sublte tastes in various type of cuisine. My lovey wife, however, is not. I love her to death but hearing her explain why eating somewhere we haven’t eaten in a month is having something we have all the time is mind boggling. To get to this position she divides food into three top categories: My cooking, eating out, and take home. So if we got Scholotsky’s a month ago and haven’t eaten out since then Scholostsky’s is what we eat all the time, but only in the take home category. It is like that for all of the categories as well. Furthermore her palate doesn’t seem to distinguish between cuisines at all. If we had a nice beef fried rice at a hibachi joint then there’s no way we could have any of the following later that week: beef fajitas with Spanish rice, thai food at all, any vietnamese, or any chinese. So not only are all of the oriental cuisines lumped together in one bunch so are the ingredients. So nothing with beef and rice and no oriental food if we’ve had fried rice while eating out and are going out again. That’s only mildly crazy in my opinion but the top breakdowns come into play and I could cook my own stir fry over rice the same week we aren’t allowed to go out for any oriental or meat and rice dish.
It is maddening to try and find a place to grab some take out. Only slightly less so for going out for a sit down meal. And honestly when I cook I try to make things my wife likes but in the end I make what I want to make and it usually works out.
You may think I am joking but none of the above is hyperbole at all. Most of it is straight from a conversation earlier this evening (or yesterday evening as the case were). I only hope she hasn’t passed on whatever gene causes this to our children.
Love ya baby…
Tomorrow night The Revival Tour hits Walter’s on Washington. It’s going to be bad ass and I am going to go. I am not a fan of all the bands that the boys on tour are from but I love every bit of their solo stuff. It’s going to an amazing night to be sure.
I have been thinking about the political landscape since the elections and have decided I don’t really care all that much anymore. I know it sounds strange coming from me but after so many years of watching both sides be equally stupid and neither one more right than the other I am burned out. The left has it right on many issues and so does the right however niether of them even get it mostly right. Add to that the fact that your vote is, for intents and purposes, completely worthless and it all ceases to matter. I thought this was apathy but it is really not. I have never felt more free when thinking about politics than I do after coming to this realization. If you really want to get into why your vote doesn’t matter one iota I will write a post on it but I am n ot going to go into right now. If you are thinking, even just a little bit, I am apathetic because my side lost then I assure you I didn’t have a side in this election. Neither candidate came close to representing my views, my class, my beliefs, or anything else you might add to such a list. I didn’t vote and I am proud that I didn’t. In the end I know I did the right thing this time around.
On a completely different note I have decided, after a while of actually using it, that I like the iPod Nano I picked up. I don’t like the capacity but I love the Genius feature and I have about a dozen playlists saved from using it already. I have decided to skip album covers as 8GB isn’t really enough to do whole albums and just name tracks from the same artist as being all from an album title I made up and give each artist on pic so that the cover flow looks good. That eliminates the biggest annoyance I was having with the interface. However good it is for travel or driving in the truck it does not have enough capacity to satisfy my musical needs while I am chained to a cube for eight hours a day. And that is where a cool new tool I just found comes into play.
I just installed, configured, and tested Subsonic in under ten minutes. It wasn’t easy because I am a geek though. It really is just that easy to configure. It also is directory based so it doesn’t take hours to have your collection on the web. It is password protected, allows multiple accounts, and does a decent job of streaming even over a cable uplink. I highly reccomend getting it if you want to have access to your music anywhere you have a net connection. It even sounds decent on my phone which is cool. I am about to install the LAME codec so I can downsample as there is some skipping when the kids are playing WoW or other internet based games but that’s to be expected.
Anyway that’s all I got for right now. Thanks for reading, I’ll catch you on the other side.
