Yummy coconut crusted chicken for dinner here tonight! Super easy meal, shredded coconut, corn starch, Panko bread crumbs, egg white and red pepper flakes. Quick brown in the pan and then right in the oven.
Had a good time last night hosting a nice little poker game for some friends. We actually were able to generate enough interest to start off the game with 9 seats filled with the 10th coming in just a little bit later. We played a cash game instead of what seems to be the normal Sit-n-Go’s in this area. Blinds were just .05-.10 and the max buyin was $20 so it made for a nice game. At those stakes of course it’s still going to be a wild, loose, and friendly game but a $15 or $20 bet will at least make you think a bit more than if you bought into a tourney for $5.
I will need to get at least a few more chips if I can make this a monthly game as after a few people went busto and re-bought I was running low. Also need to ensure that I have more small bills available for the cashing out at the end of the night. I was fine this time since I was up a good amount and just rounded everyone else up a bit when cashing out.
My plan is to build a nice tabletop this winter but I will probably at least buy the speed felt for it sooner rather than later. Using our granite table in the dining room worked, but it was too slippery to use my good plastic COPAG card set. Overall it was a good time had by all I would say and next month we’re going to try and do it again. Can’t wait!
Yesterday Apple released the latest version of Mac OSX, codenamed Snow Leopard. Being the geek that I am, immediately after work I ventured to the Apple Store closest to work and purchased it. Between last night and this morning I have successfully upgraded both of our machines with very little hassle.
For Stephanies’ MacBook, I just upgraded from the disc and it looks like every one of her programs is working without a hitch. For my iMac I chose to do a wipe of the harddisk and install from scratch since I tend to mess around with my machine so much. A few of my programs didn’t want to work right away but the majority already have an update out to fix any issues.
I also was able to reinstall most of my programs and all of my settings from my Time Machine backup. What a timesaver and great backup system that is for Apple users! Overall, you don’t really see a difference visually other than your applications menu, which now has full-size icons and just adds a scrollbar to see everything.
Overall, for the price of $29 for an individual license, or $49 for up to 5 Macs in the same household, it’s a bargain and any increase in speed or reliability is worth it.
So we’re in the middle of yet another big rainstorm here in the metro D.C. area. This is the most consistent rain that I’ve seen in the 4 years that I’ve been here. In the grand scheme of things it’s probably a good thing as we’ve been short of rain the past few summers but it really does tend to put a downer on things
Just a quick video of some of the great food that we had during the big bonfire at Mary’s place this year. Can’t wait till next year!
Mary’s Bonfire 2009 from Jason Mitchell on Vimeo.
Well today was the last day at my current job. Tomorrow I start my new contract position. Should be an exciting change of pace even though it’s still within the same organization. Anyway, it being my last day I was able to get out of the office early and it’s in the mid-60s outside. What else was I going to do but hit the links!
I went to the closest course to home, which is Pinecrest Golf Club. It’s a little 9 hole muni course run by Fairfax County. I had heard good things about it’s value and layout so I wanted to give it a shot. The good: decent layout, nice mature trees, opportunities to use the driver, cheap green fees. The bad: they had just aerated the greens this morning, poor shape of the fairways and tee boxes. I realize that they haven’t fully been able to work on course conditions and it IS a muni anyway, but I was a bit disappointed in that.
Since the beginning of the year I had only gotten to TopGolf twice and hit in our full-swing simulator upstairs once as well. This meant I wasn’t too worried about results today and just wanted to enjoy myself. Overall I played better than expected, especially with my putting and the times I used my 3 wood off the tee. I was able to drive the green on a 240 yard par 4 and it felt good! Anyway, check the results on my online scorecard on this website. It updates every time I input a round into my scorecard software on our Mac.
This weekend some friends and I will be attending ShamrockFEST, which is a big indoor/outdoor music/drinking festival held near St. Patricks’ day every year here in DC. We’ve all signed up for the VIP passes as you might actually get a chance to sit down, there are more covered areas (weather won’t be the best) and it includes all your beer for the day as well. It’s also going to be a birthday celebration so it’s going to be a fun party regardless. If you’re going to be attending as well, let me know so we can meet up.