Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar

Well, I got an email from ThinkGeek, and in it was advertised a Lego Star Wars Advent calendar.  Both of us being Lego and Star Wars fans, I couldn't pass that up and ordered it.
I'm not sure how this will work on my phone, but the box image should be included.

Dog Treats

So I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but I have a dehydrator.  Nothing fancy, but did get extra trays.  So a top with the unit in it, a.bottom and 8 trays.  I've used it for beef jerky, apples, misc fruit, and most frequently sweet potatoes.

Yup, that's right.  Neither my wife or I like them, but I currently have 6 large sweet potatoes, or 7 trays worth, sliced, blanched and drying on the counter at home.   Washed briefly in the sync, sliced in half to have clean edges and used a mandolin slicer to cut them in approx 1/4 inch slices.

Then dropped them into boiling water for five minutes.   After boiling for five minutes dumped into an ice bath for five minutes to stop all cooking.

Then drained, laid them out on the dehydrator trays, stacked the trays and dehydrated for 10 hours.   Not exactly exciting, but we now have a whole OXO container of dehydrated sweet potato chips.   No preservatives, no additives, fresh, natural and loved by the pup.

Makes me want to get some ground beef and make some jerky...

Holidaze (how original, I know)

Well, thanksgiving is upon us.  The wife hung some lights outside this morning, I played some Call of Duty: MW3.

Now we are on our way to Underwood, IA to celebrate with family.  Will try not to do the normal (gorge), and stick more to protein and veggies than carbs.

Here's to good intentions.

Tray 11, Day 1

So today is tray 11 day number 1. I'm over the halfway point, so there's less time to go than I've done. Back to a day of pain and uncomfortable teeth feeling. Only a couple days of this, then a week and a half of having plastic trays on my teeth, then start the cycle again. O, and these are my first set of trays without the notches in them to "adjust the root", as the dentist said.

Tray 10, Day 2

So here I sit actually waiting for a site to compile, so I thought I'd write a little something. Yesterday was day 1 of tray 10. I had a visit to my dentist first thing in the morning. She gave tray 9 a quick look over for tracking and bit, made sure my attachments were still good, did a collision check (included flossing between some teeth, but still unclear exactly what that means) and provided me the next 10 weeks worth of trays. Made an appt to get another once over and the final ten trays after that. So where I sit now, next Wednesday will represent the half way point for my invisalign journey. It's partially hard to believe it has been that long, and then it's really easy to believe it's been that long. Unfortunately my desire in the beginning for it to be a bit of a weight loss as well is not coming true. This is partially due to the fact that I gorge when I'm at meals. Bad me. New tray mean new pains. Teeth are sore. More so in the bicuspid/premolar area than in the incisor like it has been. Not sure what that means, but my dentist did mention that she could start to see the camber of my teeth starting to straight own. Would probably explain the three days of tooth pain I had from putting in tray 9.

December 17th, 2011

So, had a weird conversation back in my work area with a couple co-workers and my manager.

Someone said "Arg" in response to having a report formatted incorrectly which lead to the thought it was pulling wrong data (it was displaying 0, which was rounded down from 0.14).   My manager made a reference to talk like a pirate day being last month.   There was a bit of hearing issue when he said it because I was focusing on something else, and I thought he said "Talk like a Pilot" day.  Well, did a little research and the Wright Flyer had it's first flight on December 17th, 1903.

Unfortunately with a little Googling I found there is already a reference to Talk like a Pilot day, and it is May 19th.

I hate thinking I have an awesome idea, and come to find out it's already been done, as far back as to 2007 at least (site I found was listing 2009 as the third annual talk like a pilot day).   Guess I'll just bring this idea back into the hanger.