Tallahassee Melting Pot
As usual, the Tallahassee edition of The Melting Pot was wonderful. I went for the 5th or 6th time in my life on Saturday night with my wonderful wife (always the best part of going to TMP) and had their newest “Big Night Out” – The Alpine. It was probably the best salad in a Big Night Out that I’ve had. The Four Courses (click for Tallahassee menus): Alp and Del Cheese Fondue... [Read more]
Oreo Mint Ice Cream
Thank you Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream book… the greatest ice cream book EVER. The keys to making great homemade ice cream that I’ve found so far: Spend the money on the KitchenAid Ice Cream Attachment for your mixer. It’s well worth it. Use 2 cups of heavy cream and 1 cup of 1% milk. That’s my favorite texture so far. 2% milk works in a pinch, anything fattier than that... [Read more]
A Flawed Argument For More Money For FSU Academics
The Tallahassee Democrat has an editorial today about the amount of money sent towards the FSU Football program and the lack of money spent on academics at FSU thanks to the Florida Legislature. I understand their point, but the logic of the editorial is horrible flawed. Their points: FSU Football gets X amount of dollars from the Boosters FSU Academics doesn’t get that money from the Boosters... [Read more]
What Ever Happened To Couth?
Here I sit, the day before National Signing Day and I can’t help but wonder why we concern ourselves with something as silly as where a young man wants to go to college and play football. Even worse, it’s televised, blogged about and talked about for roughly a month, when the college football season is over and there are no more games to talk about. It’s all in-your-face coverage... [Read more]
Excited
I’m extremely excited today about some new stuff at ScalpEm.com. The new site design will be up this weekend and I’m going to work on writing some funny, fictional stuff to keep the mood light over there. One is a new series called The Zen of Coley and the other is the Jimbotron Confidence Board. I hope this helps keep me inspired to write and to write better. We shall see. Read More →
My Return
So the first rule of blogging is to never explain why you’re gone and never apologize for it. I’ll violate the first part a bit, since I don’t know how to pick up when the last thing I wrote was back in September. Since my last post I had my face smashed by a line drive softball at 3rd base. I had a surgery to put plates in my face. (Maxillofacial surgery with some titanium plates.) I... [Read more]
Charlie’s Gone
Charlie The Betta Fish, a life long resident of the Kristoph Residence in Tallahassee, FL passed away on September 6, 2009. He was 1 year, 9 months old. Charlie enjoyed nipping at the hands that fed him, resting on aquarium plants and flaring out his fins to show off his red and blue colors. He is survived by his owners, Bill and Pam and he will be buried at sea. Read More →
The Mets Need To Sell
I hate to say it, but the New York Mets need to be sellers in the trade market, starting now. Last night’s 7-1 loss was typical for this season, and I’ve officially given up hope on the Mets making the playoff this season. Things they need to do: Trade Jose Reyes for a bunch of young talent Consider Carlos Delgado lost to the ages and start hunting for a power hitting first baseman Give... [Read more]
Just Over 1 Day
And my craving for the new Transformers movie will be satisfied. Thank you to my wonderful wife that encourages my inner dork and prodded me to get 12:01 showing tickets. Woo! Read More →
Vanilla Ice Cream Win
The best ice cream frozen custard I’ve made to date… Vanilla #2 (custard based) from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book. I can’t wait for dessert tonight. Have I mentioned how great that Kitchenaid Ice Cream attachment for the mixer is? Read More →
Mint Ice Cream FAIL
I meant to take a picture, but I forgot. Let’s just say “Mint Ice Milk” isn’t what I was going for last night. Oh well. Read More →
Kitchenaid Artisan 5 quart Mixer
One word for it… Heaven. Bread? Check. Cookies? Check. Mixing hamburger meat? Check. Cakes? Check. Ice Cream (thanks to the attachment)? Check. How the hell am I supposed to lose weight when I have a toy like this in the kitchen now? Read More →
50 Pushups!
Holy crap, so I did a test last night (I’m a bit out of sync with Week 4 now, thanks to my schedule being out of whack for the next two weeks), and I did 50 consecutive pushups. I’ve never been able to do that before, not even close. The program is doing a wonderful job of helping me gain some strength and some stamina where I’ve lacked it all of my life. Sweet! Read More →
Situps and Pushups, Pushups and Situps
Yesterday I did over 100 pushups, not consecutively (yet), but in the 5 sets I did over 100. Today over 5 sets I did 205 situps. Methinks the program works. Read More →
Patton Quote
Something I saw today and enjoyed: “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” – George S. Patton “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt Read More →