Aahhh, I’m home again. Big pile of laundry, shaggy lawn, no
food in the house, the pool looks like crap, about a metric shit-ton of mail to
go through, and I don’t feel like doing any of it. At that point I would have
sold the house to anyone ‘as-is’ for about $1.89. Ugh, I wonder if I could hire
a service to do all of this for me. Ok, well, grousing about it isn’t going to
fix anything, so it’s time to get my happy ass in gear.
After several tele-con meetings late last Friday with the
program management I was able to convince the right people that my being in
Minneapolis at this point was pretty useless. So I was able to make a last
minute phone call to the travel agency and move my plane tickets up a whole
week! Of course it made for a mad thrash to get stuff done at work and then run
back to the hotel and spend the evening getting packed for a Saturday morning
flight.
At least I hopefully will never see Minneapolis ever again
in my lifetime. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice place when it’s not underneath
three feet of snow and the people are about the friendliest I’ve ever met. I
just hate living out of a suitcase and eating in restaurants every day for
weeks at a time. It sounds like the good life but it’s not. It sucks.
At the moment I’m looking forward to a five day weekend
starting on Friday. I am going to be a complete and total bum. I’m going to get
the pool all fixed up for beer floating. Then I’m going to fire up the smokers
at least a couple of times. I haven’t done a mess of ribs in quite a while, so
it’s at the top of my list at the moment to throw a rack or two in the WSM. I
also have a huge piece of pork belly to get processed into bacon starting this
week to go into the smoke house for a day. I might even throw some garlic,
onions, and cheese in there to soak up some smoke. I can also see a pork butt
going into the WSM for some pulled pork. I might even braise up a big pot roast
with all the veggies on the big grill one afternoon.
Years ago mom used to do a dish that we called roast beef
hash and it was awesome. She would use this super old hand operated food
grinder to grind up leftover meat, potatoes, carrots, onion, etc and then fry
it up. Man, I could put a huge dent into a bowl of that stuff. Well, I did some
searching and found the exact same grinder on eBay and bought it! So now I love
to cook up a big pot roast in the smoker or grill and then use the leftovers
for smoked roast beef hash. I’ve even used the grinder to make up my own ground
beef and pork. It really works pretty well for an antique. Eventually I want to
try making my own sausage, but I’ll need to buy a meat stuffer to do that.
So what else is going on? Well, I’ve started looking for a
small travel trailer. I found one up in Titusville that I may go look at this
weekend. It’s the right size and appears to be clean, but pictures aren’t as
good as seeing it in person. I also found one up in North Carolina that looks
real nice and in my price range, but it’s a huge long shot. I’m in no hurry so
if neither of them works out, it’s no big thing. I’ll just keep looking.
Other than that it's pretty much business as usual at the moment. No great house projects underway right now, but the back yard fence and pool enclosure re-screen are coming up fast. After that it will be the big countdown to kitchen explosion. I've got some neat ideas that I've been mulling over as to how to change it up. With this new schedule and the fact that I'm keeping the house, I can do whatever the hell I want and don't have to answer to anyone about it. So there! (Picture tongue sticking out)
Ah, who knows, this whole road show could change tomorrow and all my plans could go right out the window. But you know, that's the beauty of it. Make it up as you go along, you only get one chance at it so make it a damn good one! Hell, I might even go into work tomorrow barefoot just to see the shocked looks.
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