Meet Zoë

I may have foolishly adopted another dog at Winter League.

Chicks are Funny

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Adorable Australian Sheppard of the Day

2009: Week 3

The roller-coaster weather continues. Can we please get to the WARMING part of global warming -- at least on Winter League Saturdays.

The week was highlighted by a mini grub/pub crawl of sorts. The three stops being:

1. Cowboy Chow - really good, need to go back to fully review it.
2. Angry Dog - good chilidog and above average beer selection. Need to go bac to fully review it.
3. Londoner on Thomas - what good beer they sell, they didn't have AND it was full of uptown Douche. Probably don't need to go back.
   

Key Stats:

• 100 - percentage of Winter League games played despite saying I would only be 50% AND telling my captain I wouldn't come out this week due to sandy mangina.
• 25 - the number of bottles of Wally's Belgian Tripple bottled.
• 2 - weeks in a row going to Stan's on a Thursday.
  
• 0 - things I could think of to fill out this list.
  

My New Love

Please don’t tell beer or bacon, but I have a new love in my life and it’s called Greek yogurt.

Back when I was working in the OC I would frequently stop by the Tustin Whole Foods for beer and other essentials. Figuring that I wouldn’t have much time to “enjoy” the breakfast provided by Embassy Suites, I picked up a few quick breakfast items at the Whole Foods. I noticed the Greek yogurt and had recently read an article on-line about it. So I grabbed a couple.

Now my opinion of yogurt at this point in my life was that it was ok. It could provide a nice twang to other foods, but it wasn’t something that I particularly enjoyed by itself unless it was loaded with sugar and other flavorings. So I was exactly excited about trying this yogurt – just curious.

Consequently I opened my first pomegranate Greek Gods yogurt with a little apprehension. But as soon as I plunged my spoon into the yogurt, I knew something special was going on. It was more like thick custard than runny yogurt. And the creaminess – oh the creaminess…

Coming home, my quest has been to find the best Greek yogurt available in Dallas. The current candidate for best all around Greek yogurt is Fage (Fa-yeh) 2%. The greatness of Fage is that it comes in three fat varieties – 5% (too much like cream cheese), 0% (too chalky and sour, but still creamy), 2% (the perfect balance of creaminess and tartness and fat calories).

For my low fat high / protein dessert treat I mix in a mere teaspoon of sugar and a generous drop of vanilla bean paste. mmmmmm mmmmmmm gooooood.

Oh, yeah, this stuff isn’t cheap. It’s about $6 for a little more than 2 cups. But hey, I’m literally a thousandaire, and goddammit I’m worth it.

Adorable Marmot Picture of the Day

I'm proud to announce that if you Google "marmot" and "adorable" The Summer of Steve is the first site listed.

Thank you all for your continued support.

2009: Week 2

This was the week the Jester left his 20s behind him. Unfortunately I have nothing more profound to say than it simultaneously gets better and worse from here.

This was also the week I discovered Fage Greek yogurt. But there will be more on that later.

And this was the week that I got a new computer system at work and convinced my bosses to buy some programming tools that I told them we needed when I first started but went with a different set of tools. So I guess I have to stick around a bit longer.

Key Stats

• 4 -- the number of cores in my new computer at work.
• 24 -- the number of inches diagonally of my two new monitors at work.
• 6 -- the number of games of Headsup Poker I won at Stan's on the Jester's Birthday.
• 5 -- star I gave the mid-season premiere of Battlestar Galactica (out of 5).

Happy New President!

Now get back to work. We have an economy to rebuild.

Douchebag Beach

R.I.P Number Six

Patrick McGoohan, the creative genius behind one of the greatest TV shows of all time, The Prisoner, has passed. He was also the featured murderer on several episodes of Columbo.

If you've never seen The Prisoner, you can check out all 17 episodes here. And if you can figure out the ending, let me know what it means.

Gratuitous Grace Park Photo

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