Hunting!

So I finally went hunting for the first time in my life. now i know your probably all thinking, "what?? Hes never hunted before in his life??!" Yes I know I have lived in Ohio most of my life and I was raised in a family that hunts a lot, but alas, this was my first time.

So how was it? It was very nice. I went with my father-in-law in carrolton (spelling?). It was kind of interesting at first I was thinking that we would be togeather all day hunting side by side. But the first thing we did was split up. So I was on my own. So many thing were going through my mind like,
I wonder just how quiet I need to be?
should I walk right through the middle of this field or sneak around the edge?
Uh oh, these boots are NOT water proof.
Finally I saw a squirrel. I was standing in one place being very quiet when suddenly it came walking along searching the ground for food. I stood as quietly as I could and it came within a few feet of where I was standing. eventually it went on its way and I continued on. I finally did see some deer but I didn't shoot. I dont know if I was just too new or if I just didn't want to kill the beautiful things. all in all it was a very enjoyable day with several amusing little misshaps including making the dumb decision to try to walk through a thorn patch. Also there was the psych out moment when I thought I saw a deer laying down in some tall weeds but it turned out to be an old rusty oil drum. Do any of you have a funny hunting story? let me now!

Yay I finally got face book! If you read this message and want to add me as a friend look me up! my e-mail is theoriginaljoe2002@yahoo.com

I'm baaack!

Well I have finally gotten settled in here in ohio and I am very happy that I have internet as well. There will be pictures soon but you will have to give me a week or so. Recently I have been entertaining myself by rubbing shingle grit into the palms of my hands and wearing off my finger prints through hard labor. But I must say that life is good now that I have finally escaped the doom trap that is Florida. I promise that I will start blogging more now that I have internet so check in every week.

Fine dining II

Since I didn't post anything last month I have been trying to be extra active this month. Today I am doing my second "fine dining". Last time I didn't really pay much attention to the steps involved so this time instaed of doing a full meal I am simply doing a single item, Eggplant parmesan. now I know that there are a bunch of diffrent ways to do this, but personally I like this one, mostly because it's easy and tastes good. SO... without further "adu", (or however you spell it), here are step by step instructions on how to make yummy eggplant parmesan.

The first step is of course to wash and cut your eggplant. I try to cut my eggplant close to, but less than half an inch.

The second step is to dip each slice of eggplant into beaten eggs.

After dipping the eggplant into egg, lightly powder both sides with flour

Then fry the eggplant in oil. make sure you lightly season the eggplant at this point with salt and pepper at least. Any other spices should be added at this time as well.

Here is an example of what your eggplant should and shoulden't look like. Actually I got distracted while I was cooking and accidently over cooked one.

Once you have battered and fried all of the eggplant that you want, put the peices on a cookie sheet. There really dosen't need to be a lot of room between them.

Put some of your favorite spaghetti sauce on each eggplant. You can use as much or little as you like. Personally, I like lots of sauce on mine.

Next you should top it with your favorite grated cheese. It dosen't have to be parmesan, mozzarella and provolone taste great too.

Bake your tasty little eggplants for about 15 minutes in a 350 degree oven, or until the cheese is melted and slightly brown. take them out of the oven and let them cool. Personally I like to eat them after they have cooled down.

So there you have it. Easy to make and extra yummy. Now last time I had a special visitor give a critique and this time a tried to get Big foot to do the critique but when I confronted him he simply sniffed the eggplant parmesan and turned up his nose. After relentlessly following him and trying to get him to taste my dish he finally turned and gave a horrific, saliva spewing, bad breath bellow that made the cheese jump off the eggplant and run away. I followed suit and needless to say I have no critique this month. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything.

The lizard

My senior year of college was one of many blurs. I probably couldn't tell you what my schedule was and I 'm actualy kind of glad that I don't remember it. There was one thing that I vividly do remember though that took place during the fall semester. I can remember that it was just starting to get a tad cool in Florida and it was a favorite pastime of mine to eat a hot cup of roast chicken ramen soup in the chilly evenings while I played video... I mean... "studied". On this particular night my good friend Tsung-yen Haung (affectionally known as Thomas) was sitting in my room "studying" with me. I decided to get my usual cup of soup and of course gave him one. We walked down stairs to the dorm kitchen, to cook our little treasures in a cup. Seriously, the person who decided to combine oriental noodle soup with styrofam was a genious. While I was filling my cup exactly to the little line with water, I noticed a lizard stuck in the kitchen sink. Now here I am going to explain that unbeknownst to me the faucet was somewhat broken and would only spew out flesh poaching water. So as you can imagine, I decided to fill the sink with water to see if the lizzard would swim. This little plan went terribly wrong though because the moment that hot water touched the little reptile he siezed up as stiff as a board. I could pick him up and his tail was like a little toothpick. Of course I felt horrible. I couldn't believe that these little lizards that sit on the scalding hot sidewalk and eat ants couldn't even stand a little hot water. And as you could probably guess, Thomas continued to bombard me with guilt as he talked about me not having respect for God's creatures, and how could I not know that a tiny animal wouldn't be hurt by scalding hot water. The little guy was tough though and I could tell that he was still barely breathing. So I took him up to my room after cooking my soup and massaged his little stiff body. He continued to be stiff but the more I rubbed him and worked his little muscles, the more he seemed to breath and blink his little eyes. All of my friends scoffed and told me to give up but I kept it up. Now you must understand that I like to let my soup set for a good five to ten minutes before I consume it. It just tastes better to me like that. Well, I kind of forgot about my soup with all of the excitement and it sat there on my desk as I worked with the lizard. It was about the time that the lizard started moving his head from side to side and wiggle his little feet that it happened. I was poking him to get him to move and right as I was just about to poke his nose he regained control of his mouth and bit the tip of my finger. Now lizard bites don't hurt, but when you're not expecting it they can startle the heck out of you. I flailed my hand back and sent my cup of soup flying across my room where it hit the opposite wall and landed on my bed emptying the remaining contents. I was so angry about losing my precious cup of soup and having such a beast of a mess to clean up that I took the stiff little lizard and chucked him out the window. The moral to this story? Never massage a lizard. Or was it don't torment little creatures? Eh, either way, lesson learned.

So... Busy!

Well folks, It's that time again. Summer. Now I know that it has been a while but I happen to have a perfect excuse. In the past month I have been doing... uh... Undercover work. Yes! That's it! Undercover work for the Peruvian Government! And... uh... I had to stop a Brazillian spy from stealing... uh... it's top secret I can't tell you any more. Any way, Yes. Very busy. *Ahem*. Back to my original topic, Summer. Work work work. everyone who is still in college and highschool is doing some summer job and those of us who are teachers are out in the hot sun digging 6 foot wide holes, 4 feet deep. Oh wait, thats just me. Thats right. when I'm not spending my time behind a counter, dishing out generous amounts of my fake smile, I'm out in the hot sun working like a Mexican. You all get my point though. Its summer work time. Have fun and I hope I will start being a little more faithful to my blog. Ta~

Classic Game Review

As you know I have been on a dry spell recently. I just can't seem to think of anything interesting to post so I decided to do somthing easy, a game review!

Game: Mole Mania

Type: Puzzle
Age: 9+
Dificulty: Very hard

Story:

One day while Muddy Mole was at work, his wife was going about her daily chores while grandpa mole was watching the baby moles play... When suddenly Jinbe the farmer showed up and grabbed Muddys wife and all of his kids, shoved them into his big farmers bag and then left. But not befor leaving a note for Muddy. "Youe wife and kids are mine! If you want them back I'll be waiting in Jinbe land! -Jinbe" Muddy was furious he vowed to get back his wife and children and then set off on his adventure.

Description:

Make it through the 8 worlds of Jinbe land and rescue your kids along the way. The object is to use your puzzle solving skills and muddys super fast digging claws to get through each world. Each world introduces new aspects of the game, from digging holes to get past an obsticle, to throwing a big iron ball into big rock walls to make it to the next puzzle. each new puzzle is harder than the last. To add a little more challenge to the game you must find and steal 20 cabbages, play a frantic Minigame and find all items in each world.

My opinion:

I like Mole Mania because it's very hard. not only do you have fun playing the game but you have a sence of pride upon completing a world with a shining 100%. As far as I'm concerned, the story is ok but its really the puzzles that challenge your very sanity that get me. I can remember there was one level that was so hard that I always had to use my "surrender" to get past. Of course the day I finally figured it out I felt like the smartest man alive.

Rateing:

fun: 8.5/10
story/setting: 6/10
controls: 10/10
replayability: 9/10
Overall: 8.4

Fine Dining

Todays post is about somthing I cooked this month and I am going to try and do this at least once a month. So, Saturday Miriam and I were wondering what we should have for supper and we really didn't have anything in the house that was easy and quick to whip up. Upon inspecting the fridge we came up with the idea that all we needed were some simple additions, obtainable at the local grocery store and we could make shish kebabs. Fortunatly Miriam had thrown some chicken breast meat along with a few left over chunks of raw beef round, into a bowl with some italian dressing to marinade. So, Miriam and I went to Winn-Dixie and got some baby portabella mushrooms, green peppers and some green and yellow squash. After returning home we cut the meat into bite size chunks and skewered them on sticks. Then we grilled the shish kebabs on our nice big George forman grill (thank you Uncle Rod and Aunt Beth) untill they smelled so good we could not stand to wait any longer. Whilst I was fussing with stabbing chunks of meat and various vegetables, Miriam was whipping up some amazingly tasty butter, garlic and parmesan pasta. Here is the finished product try not to drool on your keyboard.


I also took a picture with some pretty things to make you guys even more hungry (notice the pretty candle, and NO I didn't steal it from my next door neighbor). In case your wondering thats Coke Zero in my cup. All things considered I would give this meal a 98%. I think I might have enjoyed it a tad more if I had had some lemon juice to squeeze on my pasta but we just didn't think of it while we were at the store. The after effects of this meal were catastrophic on our breath and I woulden't recomend it if you are trying to impress a date. (Please note that no real Shish Kebabs were hurt during the making of this meal)

And finally! A word from a professional food Critic! Now since this is our first time I thought I might do somthing special. As it turned out however, the only person I could find was a wierd pirate person thingy. So without further adu... or however you spell it, I give you Wierd Beard the pirate!

Arrrr! First I just wanna say that back in me day we hadda KILL our kebab veggies! there was none O' this shoppin at the "Store" for 'em. Yessir, I member the firs time I chased down a wild green squash... I harpooned the beaut right off port bough. Those were the days! None 'O this "Store" shoppin stuff! Yer can have it! Give me fresh killed veggies any day. And as fer yer measely little excuse fer a meal, it woulden't satisfy me hunger when I was a wee boy let alone a grown glorious pirate! Me advice to ye would be ta triple the portions and lay off the garlic. Yer breath could wipe out Black Beard 'imself... Arrrrrrrr!

Bee Swarm!!!

Just Thursday morning I woke up to my annoying next door neighbor squealing like a piglett that's been freshly branded. naturally I went outside to find out why and was met with the sight of a million bees buzzing around my front door. I'm not sure if he got stung or not but he retreated into his house before I could find out. Upon inspecting the situation I found a large swarm of honey bees hanging off the corner of my trailer no more than ten feet away from my front door. her is a picture of the actual swarm, it was about the size of a football.

After plucking up a bit of courage I was able to get close enough to get some decent pictures. also I was able to get a few shots from behind (Via crawling under the trailer from the other side) which is the next picture here. I was not stung once but I did kneel on a sharp stone that put a substantially painful "owie" on my knee. Luckily when bees swarm they pay almost no attention to anything else and are quite calm.
After getting a few pictures I took a video with some narration in the hopes that I might get stung for the amusement of the audience. Unfortunatly, (or fortunatly, I'm not sure which) I didn't get stung during the video either, although a few bees did land on me and crawl through my hair. In retrospect I realize that I should have reached out and poked the swarm, that would have gotten some results. Here is the video, sorry it wasn't as exciting as it could have been.

At any rate I called a bee keeper and he came out and had a look at it. By the time he got to my house though, the swarm had left for the most part. Apparently they found a suitable nesting place and the only bees that remained were the ones that were away when the swarm left. Please reply and tell me what interesting bee stories you might have.

Gone Fishing

Here are a few pictures of me fishing yesterday (May 9) I was the first time I purposfully went fishing spacifically for blue fish. I fished from the hobe Sound public beach from about 8:30am until about 11:00am and I caught three blue fish along with several large chunks of seaweed (not pictured) My sister was the (some what unwilling)photographer. for those of you who want to know, I was using 15lb test line with a mesh wire leader that had a 4oz sinker and a long bait holder hook. my bait was frozen/thawed sardines. (bionic bait)










This was the first fish I caught, I decided to through it back because it was only about 12-13 inches. It did however, put up a good fight. I was very glad that I bought the mesh wire leaders because these things had pretty good sized teeth.

I think this is a picture of the second fish I caught it might be the third though. the second fish I caught ended up being the biggest at about 19-20 inches I really didnt want to keep the third one I caught but it swallowed the hook and I really didn't want to lose my leader so I kept it. In case your wondering why the fish dont look very big its because I'm a huge guy.

Finally here are the two that I kept, on my kitchen counter just before I cleaned them. Notice the Coke Zero bottle for size comparison. I filletted them both and cut the meat into strips, which I then cooked with some "Fish and Chips" batter from Walmart. before I cooked them though I looked up on wikipedia about the strip of dark meat they had along their sides. it turned out that strip of meat is very strong so I cut it off. They turned out very good and even my wife (who hates fish) said they weren't bad. I was not able to get a picture of the fish cooked because it dissappeared very fast. (hic)

A short poem

When I wake in the morning I'm in grumpy mode.
The taste in my mouth is like I've been sucking a toad.
I get out of my bed and I go brush my chompers.
Then I put on my clothes and go strap on my stompers.
Great black hitops they are with strong toes made of steel.
My tootsies feel safe in them, and thats a good deal.
Next I make my huge bed with its bed spread and sham.
Then I clomp to the fridge for immitation ham.
I then go to work where I slave hard all day long.
For a tiny pay check that makes me say, "thats just wrong!"
Then I go home as fast as my big feet can carry.
And I see my dear sweety which makes my day merry.

Scary story?

So recently I have had a hankering for a good scary story to keep me awake at night. You know, one of those ones that make you lie awake with your eyes wide open even though your dead tired just because you could swear that you hear somthing moving in the next room. Maybe its just the house setteling... No it couldent be that, because you could swear you hear some kind of breathing... maybe the labored breathing of a wounded... NO I've got to stop thinking about those things! Clear my mind... (*drip* *wheez*) Cleeeeeear my mind... yes.. yes thats better... Think about bunnies and flowers. Any way you get my point.

Needless to say I have come up severly lacking in this area. So I decided to write my own scary story. I still need time to finish it though. In the mean time please respond to this post with the scariest book you have ever read. I would like to see what other people consider scary.

P.S. The scariest book I have ever read in my life was "Cujo" by Stephen King.

The movie that never existed?

Ok so I'm surfing the web and I get this thought to look up an old movie that I used to watch as a kid. It was one that my grandma recorded off telivision and It was called "The incredible world of Ogg" or "the land of ogg" somthing like that, I am really not sure. at any rate I spent a very long time looking on google/wikipedia/half.com as well as a ton of other websights that I use to find things. I was completely unable to find it and I KNOW I didn't dream this up
1: I called several people that confirmed that they saw the movie as well
2: No one in my family smokes or injects Hallucinogens.
3: I can distinctly remember some of the songs and characters from the movie.
Ok so your probably wondering what as so great about this movie. First of all it was animated. and I dont mean computer animated I mean frame by frame drawn and recorded. (real art, too bad disney stoped doing that they totally lost my respect) second of all it was a good movie, for everyone in the family.

Ok now so that any of you that are reading this can help me identify this movie I will now give a summary of the movie and a description of several characters.

movie summary. several kids are left at home to baby sit their young sibling and some how the sibling dissapears. in a panic they go searching for the sibling looking in the last place they remmber seeing her the club house. it turns out that there is a trap door under the clubhouse that leads to a underground world (that might explain the dissappearing of several things lately) they venture down into this world where they meet a strange little green man that speaks a strange language (Ogg). this little green man takes them back to his underground city where the children stick out like sore thumbs because their so tall and they do no thave green skin. after several run ins with the little green people they find their sibling. they quickly find out that these people are terrified of a harmless little pet they call "wormy" and it is because they believe that these tall upperworld people are the snake people that have come to destroy them. the children look into the matter and find out that the so called "snake people" are simply a old comik book and it turns out that the little green people believe everything they read. at this point my memory of the movie goes foggy. I do remember that they make it out of the underground world after fighting some pirate and solving the mystery of the snake people but I dont remember much else.

characters.
1: I remember there being an older sister but I dont not remember much about her.
2: there was a younger brother or friend that had a little snake like pet named wormy. now this wormy thing was very odd because he had to keep painting it green for some reason or it would fade and get sick?
3: there was a little green guy who cut down big trees underground, like a lunmber jack or somthing and he always said "ogg ogg ogg" in doffrent tones of voice as his form of communication.

yea... sorry I cant remember anything else about it but if you can offer something to this topic please comment.

On Air soft

Ok now I just want to make sure that everyone knows that I am totally against senseless violence, HOWEVER! In miniture doses, even some poisons such as vanilla or my grandmas holiday fruit cake can be uplifting and entertaining. having said that, let us delve into this topic with an open mind.

Ok so I'm sitting in my house some after noon minding my own business and I begin to hear a *Tink* *Tink* against the house. any normal person would think "whats that?" and continue to go outside and check it out. I on the other hand, would grab my AirSoft gun, slip silently out the back door and sneak around the house. All the while keeping my eyes open for my notorious next door neighbor. Upon finding him we would then participate in a violent exchange of airsoft fire, back and forth untill the other neighbors start peeking out their windows. wondering what that noise was that sounded like a grown man crying like a little girl. (thats right folks. all you have to do is get him cornered and he squeals like a little school girl that just chiped a nail) This is somthing that I enjoy doing. It puts an abrupt stop to ANY boring situation and it provides me with some very vital exercise, including heart rate increase. I guess the point that I'm trying to make is that I believe that playing airsoft is not only fun, its good for you. (unless some one forgets to wear safty glasses) Now the next question is, "is this arisoft game going to desensitize younger children or even less intelligent/mature adults to violence? lets see what doctor Joseph has to say.

Dr. Joseph: (Am I on?) Ahem yes thank you. I would just like to say that children have enough violence in their lives what with all the violence on television and those video games that they play! and another thing! If your listening out there billy from across the street, Your paying for that hand carved bird feeder you burnt last week! Oh dont even try to deny it! I know it was you! I have it on camera! (what do you mean my time is up? Give me back that mike I wasn't done!) I'LL GET YOU BILLY!........................................

Ooooooooooookay well you heard it strait from the doctors mouth folks. too much violence. But personally I think if the situation is controlled and all safty precautions have been taken, a game of airsoft is good fun and way better than sitting in front of a television or playing video games all day. thank you for reading and please comment.

Cookie :)

Yes... thats right. Fear me all you young cookies out there.

Testing...

Hello? *thump-thump-thump* *Skreeeeeee* Ok just seeing how this here thingy works.
I have never really done anyhting like this before but it seems like a good idea so I decided to give it a try.

I think I will probably just post interesting facts and funny stories that I happen to come by. Also I am kinda interested in posting some of my book ideas on here to get some honest feedback.

(warning! disclaimer)
my spelling is somthing of a legend. and by that I mean in a bad way so please be easy on me.