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the wyf's rack - update

well, actually, it's my rack, but what kind of blog traffic would that headline generate? here's tray 1 of 2... just envision a 2nd tray, that's much tastier...

nice rack!

yes, you do! give em up! jeff hungry!

mmmmm... i don't cook much... can do tuna sandwiches... can do spaghetti... and can do ribs... either baby backs or spares... doing 12 lbs of spare ribs for denni and tomi, et. al for tomorrow (saturday). the wyf bought em today... i (ok, she) thru em in the oven (250 for 3 hours, but it turned into 4 hours) covered in aluminum foil, after scrunching some (6) garlic cloves on em. so, took em out, drained the liquid, cut them into chunks of two bones big each pieces, and then added the rub... the rub, altho entirely proprietary to the mcpuffs, i CAN tell you that it contains copious amounts of brown sugar, paprika, pepper, salt, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder and the not so secret (any longer... i HATE the word 'anymore'!) cayenne.

then, in the fridge, covered (actually, they're currently uncovered, but i'll throw some tinfoil on em before i retire for the night... i didn't want to trap all that heat in under foil, or they'd 'spoil'... so, i couldn't help but lick my fingers when i was done applying the rub... so, tomorrow, 30 minutes before grilling.. take em out of the fridge, let em chill (or... unchill), then, on to the (ya, gas grill) but w/ soaked in water hickory chips over the gas jets and stone like briquettes to give em the final flavor. and here's the final key.. put copious amounts of famous dave's rich and sassy (no, not paris hilton or cindy mccomas, but a bbq sauce) slathered on em, and then just about 20 minutes on the grill, and then, voila... no flipping of them! keep the top side on top! serve em up... receive the accolades.. mmmm.. ribs... is there anything better for memorial day? bonfire, mosquitos, ribs, beer, kids runnin' around tacklin each other. i love my life.

hiiiiiiii-ya!!!

ya, isn't it great... may f'in 24... and the mosquitos are out. last 2 years it was mid to late june, but not this season. grrrrr... ummm... i kind of (hesitate to type kinda... so 'myspace', even tho i've never once typed in that URL, or visited myspace or facebook or myface or whatever... hip to be unhip) thought this blog would delve into the real issues of the day, into my innermost thoughts... well, that ain't gonna (sorry: going to) happen... which reminds me... dodge's ad multimillion dollar ad campaign is "ya, its gotta hemi" is just all FUBAR. that is actually slang for "Yes, it have to hemi". as if i'd say "i gotta go" i actually mean "i have to go", not "i got a go". stupid phrase, made more stupid by its incorrect usage. oh, well. anywho... am officially certified as a black belt as of yesterday, got the email today asking how i want the plaque (plague?) to read... jeff j mc... jeffrey mc... jeffrey j mc.... i choose 'dr. of love (and pain)'... wonder if they'll print it up like that. i MCed a staff black belt / master black belt event, and brought in two outside motivational speakers (ya, i know, but it's what we do!). as i was chitchatting w/ them before it started, i told them about the audience. when i told them there would be about 50 black belts, and 10 master black belts coming, their eyes got real wide, and they were visibibly excited. "wow, is that something! you're kidding!? 3m has that many black belts!?" i knew right then that they had no idea there was a statistical / quality program where the leaders are called master black belts and black belts... i had to break the bad news to them that although we were a roomful of blackbelts, there would be very little breaking of boards, slow motion kicking, and loud exclamations of our virility. just a bunch of pocket protector wearing type As who love stats and problem solving. they were visibly dissapointed, and never really regained their initial enthusiasm... c'est la vie.

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i picked my mama's favorite hairdo for it...

buy curious?

ummm... ok, maybe that's a bad title for the 2nd (ok, 3rd, if you count the entry completed at 12:05 this am) blog entry from today. like i orig. had a feeling, might as well go out in a blaze of glory, and blog away until the urge to self-document passes... so, H really wanted to read curious george tonite... read 3 stories from the 'complete works of curious george'. that is the 3rd movie he's seen in a theatre (1st was a bears movie at the imax when he was about 2. no scars left over from that! "are we moving?" "no hunter, it just looks that way" "are we still moving?" "no, buddy, it's just the screen that's moving" "are we still moving?" the folks in front of us were patient, indeed. "are those bears going to eat us?" "no, we're moving too fast for them to catch us"... that was when the wyf abandoned us for a long stretch, and i was 'lottery papa', where we did como, the MOA, the imax, the 'jump around on air inflated things and puke' store, toys r us, etc etc. then, we did madagascar (all 3 of us). after 22 minutes into it, when we took away the tub o popcorn cuz he laid waste to about half of it... "is this almost done?" "i want to go home" "why is this so long" all in a stage whisper. good thing the other 86 3 yr olds drowned him out. so, once again, being lottery papa, when the wyf was gone on biz, we went to the movies... curious george. i had ruined it for him by watching the trailers about 10 times before we went. he was expecting a lil more action and faster cuts... but we w/stood it for almost all of it, and then he always asked to rewatch the trailers and play the online movie games... i bought him the complete works of curious george http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618164413/sr=8-2/qid=1148176306/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-5222407-3024950?%5Fencoding=UTF8
wow, is that an ugly URL, but too lazy to convert it at tinyURL or SNIPurl... so, now the question is: should i buy the DVD of curious george or not? (and you thought the title was just a hook to get you to read yet another pointless brain dump...). i have a soft spot in my heart for curious george... that was dad and myself's favorite book series... he'd plop it up on his ridiculously large and taut beer belly, stretching the wife beater to it's limit, in his old trusty boxers, w/ an arm around me on one side, and tom on the other, on his bed. i'd hold one side of the dogeared, colored on, ratty curious george softcover, and tom would grab the other, and we'd plow thru the curious george books, me reading one page, tom the next, etc. so, as i reread those old stories (curious george gets a job... gets a medal... goes to the hospital for an std... flies a kite...), i love seeing those old, simplistic drawings, those old images, as if it were 30 years ago all over again (30 yrs! where'd the years go?) what format will hunter be 'reading' curious george to jeff jr to in 30 years?

out,
j

and now a word from our sponsor...

so, i clicked on the 'adsense' thingy off the blogger thingy... it places content specific ads on a blog or wherever. i had to agree that i wouldn't click on it... oh... so tempting, tho. so far, my blog ad has generated... let's see here... 0 hits. 0 revenue. 0 notice... typical banner ad, i guess. the ad used to say 'katrina relief' on day 1... now, it's changed to 'texas hold em poker'... is there anything that ms. google doesn't do well? (blogger is a google thing now... been assimilated. you will be assimilated). the boy is back. we had to watch about 25 trailers to make up for lost time... click here for our trailer shower of choice >> http://www.apple.com/trailers/ walked the circle. 'rasteled. (slang for wrestled, which just doesn't look right). he arrested me about 10 times, read me my rights, cuffed and stuffed me, told me to watch my head as he put me in his 'car'... dang, i missed im. in fact, we're now watching another thing he missed even more than me... lil joe the veggietale. i love my new(ish) inspiron laptop. like a half ream of paper, but just as fast/powerful as the ol' desktop (which tom is i'm sure now using to its full potential (as a mail and newspaper holder, i'm sure... and dog hair catcher) , but is fully portable / wireless (or docked for big monitor/keyboard, too)

so, click on that poker ad thingy... i'll report back huge amount of pennies that it has generated. it's the boy's college fund, so click often for ivy league, occasionally for a big 12 school (isu!)... a few times for a votech, and click only once for any big ten school (iowa, the U, etc). no pressure, but we have no backup plan for H but this. if adsense doesn't deliver, it'll be on your conscience (and for the record, wasn't even tempted to type "conscious").

ooooo... gotta go, the big jail song scene is next... and that lil jo cucumber sure can sing

j

fresh content already?! you kiddin' me?!?

at the risk of flaming out early, here's the 2nd post in as many days. went to PK's for poker nite. texas hold em - all night - all hands... i guess it's the hot poker nowadays, but would 'between the sheets' ala 'in-between' or 'between the rails' kill em? or my family favorite, 'up and down the sasqua-wanna'... 8 community cards, 4 by 2, w/ 3 each in the hole, and best 5 card combo takes it, kill anyone?!. or 2 card drop-si (also called 'guts', also called 'balls'), and a 3-card version. and don't forget about another family favorite growing up: 7-card stud, high-low eight ball two spinner sweep'. for those not in the know... 7-card means.. duh, you end up w/ 7 cards.... stud means no trading in cards (ala 'draw') for fresh cards... ala 7 or 5 card 'draw'. the high-low means the pot is split between the high hand (aka the traditional 4 of a kind, full house, flush, straight, 3 of kind, 2 pair, pair) and a 'low' hand', which is the lowest 5 cards possible, w/out any duplicates... aka.. a 9-6-4-3-2 hand would be a "96". the 'eight ball' means there can be no low hand w/ the top card above an 8... aka, an '87' is the 'highest' lowball hand that could win, and the best lowball hand is a '54' (ala a 5-4-3-2-ace), altho my dad used to tell a story where the locals thought the best hand possible was a '64', and the brainerd guys thought a '54' couldn't be be for low hand... the locals argued that a 54 is disqualified from low hand, because that's actually a straight. dad said they had to fight there way out of that town, all over a '65' vs. a 'can't lose' '54' for lowball. dad and his friends were green (highschool age), and they went to another town's bar to play, w/ a bunch of grizzled vets... the old, drunk vets pry thought they could trick the young out of towners... they bet wrong. but dad never told us who ended up w/ all the money, which i surmise means that it wasn't him and his buddies. 'two spinner' means two community cards that everyone can use in there hand. and 'sweep' means that one player can sweep both high and low hands, using different 5-card combinations of the cards for the best low hand and best high hand. don't have to declare at end of betting if you're going hi or low.. it's assumed everyone has a shot at high and low... so, to review, 2 cards down, then bet. then a card up and bet. another up card and bet. another card/bet. another card bet. seventh card down (no bet)... flip first spinner card and bet. flip 2nd spinner card and bet. (that's the 7th round of betting, if you're counting). go around table, figuring out the best low hand, the best non repeating 5 cards at 8 or under... then, the best hi hand (full house, flush, etc). spilt the pop, new deal.

maybe 5 card draw (3card draw, 4 w/ an ace) w/ a spinner. or blackjack out of the dealers pot. or the classic, 'in between'. or dropsie, or polish poker (one card on forehead that you don't look at), or 5 card shotgun (aka like 5 card stud, but w/ all cards up, and betting at every card, or NO betting at every card w/ a huge ante. or 7 card no peak. which is 7 cards down, flipping over in turn around the table, only stopping when you beat the prior best hand. if get a 4 or a 9, can buy another card for half of the pot ante amount. and w/ almost every other poker game, it's always the best 5 cards that win.

maybe 31, if you really want to slow things down. or criss cross, to get lots of betting (3 by 3 grid of cards, w/ 2 spinners.. and, go figure, winner uses best 2 card spinner and 3 cards in a tic tac toe pattern to win.

or whatever game the buzzed dealer can come up w/. any derivative game of the above... 'ummm... so this is 6 card stud, 3 down, 2 up, 1 down, betting on up cards, w/ like 3 spinners, one-eyed jacks and 3s wild, can buy a card w/ a 5 showing, and will be high-low, w/ NO sweep, and like no eight ball required, either.... so, who's in? ante is 50 cents, and chicken-*hit rule is in effect, in case you fold but actually would have won, you need to match the pot.

wow, did i spend lots o time chasing a quarter here, a quarter there... a double burn by hitting the post in in between on a 'pot bet'... youch! odds of actually hitting a post are 2 in 13, but they always seem lower when you're faced w/ a 2 and king, and why wouldn't you bet pot, only to have a KING be you in between card, and guess what, you're counting the pot, and then putting in twice that amount. youch, indeed.

so, did i win tonite? nope. did i enjoy it nonetheless? of course... except for the 3 hour and 45 minute drive over to west side (minnetonka)... well, seemed that long, pry about 45 minute actual drive time.

the wife and the boy get back tomorrow... they'll be underwhelmed by any 'progress' of cleanliness or honey-do project completion... where'd the week go?

ps.. saw the da vinci code... mono e mono... first movie in a theatre that i've ever gone to alone. felt kinda weird... no, i take that back... karen h and i went to movie back in '89 'together'. but we wanted to see different movies... so, i went to a star trek sequel, and she went to a chick flick. worked out well... nobody talks much during a movie anyway (well, except in the hood, to 'big mamma's house'). the movie matches the book pretty closely... about 92% the same. i'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. i liked the discussion of past history and jebus talk waaaay more than the chase scenes in current time...

and damn... i guess i just passed the midnight point... so, make it 'two updates in 3 days'... and here's your random pix of the blog...

out,
j

McBaby's first blog...

what drove me to a blog? the boygirl... the newest, soon to be mcpuff... early november... oh, ya, and i've been by myself all week, bouncing off the walls here... just us 3 dogs (gods), awaiting the boy and wife back from hotlanta.

so, don't wanna type too much, in case this doesn't even work... oh, and let me try to post baby's first pic...

so, that's it... exciting for us... stick around... that lil bean should be growing before your eyes...

j