New Year's Resolutions

Well, here we are at another New Year's Eve. Time to celebrate the beginning of a new year. I always wondered, if we're celebrating a new year, does that mean the old year sucked totally? Think about it. If this year is great, we would not celebrate the end of it. On the other hand, if the old year sucked, then we'd celebrate a new year since we can't wait to get rid of the old one. Substitute 'car' for 'year'. You would celebrate a new car if your old one was such a piece of crap that you had to get rid of it. If you have a new car but your old one is still pretty cool, then you get a new car that sucks, who celebrates that? But nooooooo, we just celebrate the new year without any idea of whether the new one will really be better. Oh well.


Here are my New Year's Resolutions:

1) Clean out the garage so I can actually park my truck in it.

2) Barbeque more. Much more. You may see many more food and BBQ posts on my blog soon.

3) Work on more electronics and computer projects. I have not put any posts up yet about my interests in electronics and computers. This will probably change.

4) Work on recording some of my original music I have written. This is something I've done in the past but never really finished.

5) Limit my resolutions to 4, then stop.



Whew, that sounds like a lot of work. Good thing I have one year to do it.

Christmas

Cristmas time with family - 2008.

Here are some pictures of the food and trees from our gatherings. Again, family members were shy about having their pictures on my blog, but I'm trying to wear them down.

Oh, and I got a Garmin. Yeay! I tried it out last night and it seems to work pretty well so far. I'm just glad it came with it's own battery.

Joys Of Owning Your Own Home - Part 2 - Snowstorms

Oh how I love my home. Normally I am quite proud of being able to do yardwork and landscaping on my own without having to hire a landscaper. Unfortunately, this also means I have to shovel snow myself. Here's a nice little video I took of our latest snowstorm here in Amherst, NY. I took this video AFTER I had already shoveled out the driveway. Looks like I'll being doing it again soon...

Are We There Yet?????

Here's a link to some info on when meat is done:

http://www.grillingcompanion.com/meat-doneness-temperatures/

The site has some good stuff on it.

http://www.grillingcompanion.com/

A good digital meat thermometer is a good investment for getting meat cooked enough to be safe, but not too much so you don't dry it out.

Time For Some Beer

OK People - Time For Some Beer!!!

The last few weeks I have sampled some good beer. I took a chance on something called Shipyard beer. I was hoping it would not taste like a shipwreck. I was not disappointed! Good beer.

The beer was good.
I sampled some during a recent Buffalo Bills football game.
The beer was good. The Bills were bad. The Bills looked like a SHIPWRECK! The beer was quite tasty.
The Bills are in business making lots of money. I hope the company that makes Shipyard beer is doing at least as good.
Well, there's always the Sabres...

The Toronto Bills?

I saw an interesting article in the Buffalo News about the Buffalo Bills playing in Toronto.

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/519766.html

On the one hand, how obvious can it be that some people want to buy the Bills and move the team to T O? On the other hand, who in Toronto would want to go and watch a pro sports team that can't win a big game when it needs to? All those people are already Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fans. What if they don't have enough money left over after rooting for the Leafs? Maybe there would be enough, T O is a big city.

Tonight I Eat Steak

On this night - I eat STEAK!

I got a couple NY Strip steaks from Federal Meats. They looked good.

I decided to try one steak with Emeril's SouthWest rub, and the other one with a rub from Wegman's.

375 degrees for probably about 45 minutes. Flipped 'em over once after about 20 minutes and added some more rub to the side that was on the bottom.

Delicious. Emeril's rub - could have had some heat. I thought SouthWest style stuff was supposed to be hot. The Wegman's Rub - a nice hint of celery.

The verdict: Excellent steaks. Flavor. Texture. Aroma. I decided to leave veggies and bread off the menu so I had more room for steak.