For New Year's Eve, M and I checked out the Walleye Drop. You read that correctly. Port Clinton, Ohio, bills itself as the "walleye capital of the world". In that spirit, instead of dropping a ball one New Year's Eve as they do in Times Square, they drop a 20 foot fiberglass walleye (nicknamed Wylie) as the clock counts down to 2017. This was the ( Read more... )

Tuesday 11/22 - Gaming with theferrett, zoethe, and khiron1416.
Wednesday 11/23 - Sold cheese from 9am to 4pm. Cleaned and cooked when I got home.
Thursday 11/24 - More cooking and cleaning. Picked up parents and tigerlily_blue at airport (two separate trips). Thanksgiving dinner. The MuppetsFriday 11/25 - My birthday. Mom's birthday. More cooking. Phi Kappa Theta Black Friday Chili Feed ( Read more... )

This is supposed to be a diary, among many other things, right? So here's what we've been up to since our last social escapades recap.

Tuesday the 8th pianodan and drdingbat crashed our house en route to Boston. We made them chicken pesto soup and oreo truffles (no prizes for guessing who cooked what) and then caught Stars at the Beachland. A good time was had by ( Read more... )

Back in 2006 when the smoking ban passed in Ohio, there were many people who claimed that lots of bars would go out of business because smokers would stop attending them. I haven't seen any evidence one way or another as to whether that has happened in the intervening four years, but there has been one unexpected consequence that nobody mentioned ( Read more... )

We've had a lot of guests recently, with more to come in the near future ( Read more... )

It was a busy weekend. As mentioned previously, I saw "Once Upon in the Time in Mexico" at CWRUFilm with Elise on Friday. After parting ways with Elise I went to drop something off at the PhiKap house. I fully intended to walk in and walk out, but it turned out that a party was going on so I hung out for a few hours with some of the older Phikaps ( Read more... )

Last year was better, but this year was well worth going.

( Cast and Credits )

The Eddie From Ohio concert was frickin' brilliant.
( Eddie! )

Among the many things I purchased Saturday ( including 2 Conan books with the original Frazetta art - only 8 more to go! ) and 2 more Bujolds ( only 5 Vor books to go ), I also snagged the Doors album Strange Days, which is pretty much the only Doors album that I still wanted to acquire, not that I'll say no if I find one of the other ones cheap ( Read more... )

Dinner tonight with gieves, darlox and Kenichi at #1 Pho. It turns out that Ken & Jim knew each other already. I also learned that the bowl of sweet & sour chicken soup is frickin' huge. Me & Ken shared it and we still had a lot left at the end of the night ( Read more... )