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December 10, 2011: The Walking Dead

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I have 57 days until shooting starts (unless it's pushed back, and it will be, because that's the business) but I'm already finding it difficult to take the day job seriously anymore.

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    1. I certainly didn't treat it with deadly importance like some of my surreal coworkers do, but I took it seriously enough to do well and be called out as one of the best salesmen there.

      1. Do you think, once it airs, Cory Hart will be like "Holy crap, I bought video games from that guy!"?

        1. I think there should be an episode where he is a guest star and asks "Do I know you from somewhere? Best Buy, maybe?"

          Product Placement!!!

  2. I hurt my knee about a month ago playing volleyball. The sports medicine clinic told me it looked like I had dislocated my kneecap (yup, I definitely did- not something I'd recommend). Had the follow-up appointment on Wednesday this week. After about a month of pretty much moving around normally and playing in a full-day volleyball tournament a couple weekends ago, the doctor at the follow-up appointment tells me I have a torn ACL and a torn meniscus. Whoops. The doctor couldn't believe I was walking around without crutches. I guess I'm looking forward to surgery here in the near future.

    1. I believe it. When I tore my ACL two years ago, I actually played basketball on it a month later and ran a 5K before my surgery. Basketball was awful because it popped out of place a couple of times, but the 5K wasn't too bad because it required no lateral movement.

      Good luck on the recovery. I highly recommend using your hamstring as a replacement ligament if you are given that option. Rehab sucks, but I only spent two days on crutches and three days on painkillers.

      1. I figured someone on here had torn an ACL- good to hear that I'm hopefully only looking at a couple of days on crutches. I'll push for the hamstring ligament replacement- from my research, that looks like the best of the three usual options, but it's all going to depend on what the surgeon recommends, I guess.

  3. I just put up icicle lights on the side of the house - what a pain in the rear. I bet the packaging engineer over in China who figured out how to cram them into a 4x6 box never had to hang them up.

    Time to start thinking about list of grievances...

    1. I love outdoor Christmas decorations, but I absolutely hate putting them up. We have a lighted nativity scene in the front yard and that's it. Anyone who thinks I should do more is welcome to come and put them up for me.

      1. I helped my mother-in-law hang hers the day after Thanksgiving, since there isn't anyone else at her house who can help her. We didn't do outdoor decorations when I was a kid, so this was my first experience. I'm pretty ambivalent about it, but I probably won't do it once we own our own place unless I can still buy strings of lights with the old-fashioned, large color bulbs. (Does anyone know what happens to Christmas lights once regular incandescent light bulbs are no longer available?) There are a couple of bungalows in our old neighborhood here that stream lines of those beautiful old school bulbs from their porches up into the maple trees in their front yards, and they really are a sight.

        1. I more than happily ditched our swag lights for LEDs. Not only can you connect more of them end-to-end, but they are longer in any case so their isn't any need to. Plus they come wound on a spindle. Runner daughter and I now only put up two strands: one to run the gutter line along the garage, bay windows, and front porch, and the other to run under the porch and down each column. Half hour, tops.

      2. Besides two trees of Christmas lights, we've put up a giant, inflatable dreidel bear in our front yard.

  4. I think this is the first time in the entirety of my residence in the Upper Midwest that I had to go cut down our Christmas tree without any snow on the ground. Apparently something over near Tomah is keeping us from getting anything on the ground here. I'm sure frozen mud in the field of trees is festive if you're from Illinois, but today was a real let-down.

  7. Sconnie Au Poivre

    Just invented this episode of Haywood meets Paree tonite.

    Cut up 2 Sconnie brats into small disks. Smash up some green and black peppercorns w/ mortar/pestle. Press the brat disks into the peppercorns. Heat a saute pan with olive oil and some minced garlic. Saute the disks for 4-6 min on med-high/high heat until nicely browned, then flip and do the other side. Oncet both sides browned and the brat is cooked thru, set meat aside.

    Add 1/4 c. Madiera to the saute pan (could also use bourbon, cognac, or brandy here) and deglaze, scraping the bits of meat stuck to the pan and reducing by 1/2. Add 1/4 beef broth and reduce as well, until you have a gravy like mixture. Remove from heat and add a pat of Irish butter, emulsifying with the gravy.

    Pour your sauce over the brat disks. Serve w/ tortellini and snow-peapods seared in butter/wine.

    1. fancy-schmancy brats, eh?

      I'm making dal makhani as I type (a vegan version, substituting oil, coconut milk, and a bit of almond milk for the dairy). And a Sam Adams Winter Lager for the cook.

      1. Mrs. Hayes made a lovely beef stew in the crock pot today, then surprised me with the flakier, butteriest homemade biscuits she's ever made. I had seconds of the stew, four biscuits, and Alaskan's Winter Ale (the one brewed with spruce). I'm just now moving comfortably again.

      2. at the last minute, I decided to omit the coconut milk, which was a good choice. Now finishing with a Sam Adams Holiday Porter (meh; the Winter Lager was more interesting).

      3. LOL - I just put beans in a pan to soak last nite to make Dal Makhani as well. This time I'm not making from scratch but trying a pre-made mix I got from our local Indian grocer. We'll see how that goes...

  9. so I find myself in the great city of Omaha Nebraska....any great place to get breakfast tomorrow?

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