To set this up – last Sunday was my 71st birthday. Last Thursday was Grandson Ver 2.2’s 18th birthday. Today we needed brisket to celebrate. Granpa did one. And it was good. I used Zach’s Grilling Spices and Durkee’s Steak Dust for seasoning. Smoked with half oak and half hickory. This was my first hot and fast at about 350 for 7 hours. As opposed to my usual low and slow at about 225 for 10 hours of so. Anyway, food pron pics below. Raw on the smoker, smokin’, ready to wrap, unwrapped, some sliced, Grandson Ver 2.2 dishin’ up granpa’s brisket and potato salad and granma’s beans, and last Grandson Ver 2.2, my old self and Grandson Ver 2.1.
I don’t know why the hell I haven’t posted anything since Christmas. I guess I got caught up in somethin’. But for the life of me I don’t know what. We’re both still healthy. For the most part, anyway. Mrs Myron has had some blood pressure problems but it looks like her cardio guy is just about to get a handle on that. Oh, and she needs surgery to remove her lap band.
She got the thing in Sept, 2005 and it worked pretty well until last year. And late last year she started having pain where her gall bladder used to be. That had us concerned because that’s where the pancreas hangs out, you know? And pancreatic cancer is just scary as hell. Turns out her lap band has eroded into her stomach. Yep, there it was in the photo the gastro guy took on the way down. Anyway, she’s gonna get that surgery and then in 6 months or so she wants to have another restrictive procedure done.
Me, I damn near tore some meat off my right pinkie finger the other day. I was up in the attic messin’ with my OTA antenna (tell you about that sometime). When I was trying to get back to the little attic stairs that come up in the kinda floor for the AC and hot water heater I tripped and started falling. I was worried about falling through the ceiling so I lunged forward to land on the floor boards. I made it. But my little finger must have hit a nail or something. Man it hurt. I was close to passing out and puking. An old man has no business doing that, huh?
Anyway, just wanted to let folks know we’re okay and I’ll be posting more regularly.
Changing in time to Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
I put together this little video using images stolen borrowed from around the innarwebz and J.J. Cale’s song Hey Old Man.
Baxter Black the cowboy poet says it so well.
“When the Arizona exploded, she rained sailors.” — Memories of a survivor
It’s a Kenwood DNX8120. Boy, is it something. It has a Garmin GPS, XM sat radio (because they have the traffic channel), UPS input, iPod connection, FM tuner (why bother?), Bluetooth for hands free cell phone, CD player and a DVD player that only works when you’re parked with the parking brake on. Unless you have the parking brake detector wire grounded and then you can watch a movie while you text message all while flying down the freeway at 90 mph. I use it mostly for iPod. I have a 120 gig iPod Classic that I’m loading up with all my CDs. The Kenwood shows you the iPod menu with playlists, artists, albums and album art when available. It’s wild. And you can change the start up screen and wallpaper. I just changed mine to submariner’s dolphins. Below is the YouTube I put up to show a bunch of old worn out boat sailors. Like Bill, Park, bothe nook, etc. And click here to see the video I made when I first got it.
Slacker internet radio. Have you tried it? This is a screenshot of the software player you can download. Click on it to make it a bit larger. They have about every genre you can imagine. I like the music selection a lot better than XM on line, which I get because of my dashboard navigation thingy. And the best part, Slacker is free. I’ve had it on for about 3 hours this morning and I’ve had to tolerate 3 very, very brief commercials. And no DJs, unlike XM. Try it, you’ll like it. Maybe. Click here to go there.
And a bit of cameltoe? Click the pic to make it grow.
Here it is the last day of fall and the last day of hurricane season so how about some Keith Jarrett? Here’s his trio, Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, playing Autumn Leaves.
UPDATE: I was told via email that fall ends around Dec 20 so it’s still autumn. But it is the last day of hurricane season.
"You sleep safe in your beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm."
George Orwell
