The swamp cooler was what I did all of yesterday. Today I got home from work to find my mother and brother all hot to fix the slightly leaky upstairs toilet. Four hours and two trips to the store later, we've got it fixed (knock on wood, the shutoff valve was severely lacking in the "OFF" department, but it seems fine right now).
Lord Almighty but I hate plumbing.
5/31/2011
*Scream my frustrations to the heavens*
Why is it, do you think, that you can never hook up the swamp cooler without two or three trips to the hardware store?
Blueberry French Toast Casserole
This was what was for breakfast yesterday, and leftovers this morning.
Basically, it's all the makings of french toast, by instead of frying them on a skillet, you cut them up into chunks and put them in a baking pan. Bread and cream cheese chunks in the pan, pour in your batter (milk and eggs and cinnamon and vanilla) and a bunch of blueberries on top. As it bakes, make some blueberry syrup (water, sugar, cornstarch and blueberries, and maybe some lemon juice). When it comes out, pour on the syrup and eat it.
Basically, it's all the makings of french toast, by instead of frying them on a skillet, you cut them up into chunks and put them in a baking pan. Bread and cream cheese chunks in the pan, pour in your batter (milk and eggs and cinnamon and vanilla) and a bunch of blueberries on top. As it bakes, make some blueberry syrup (water, sugar, cornstarch and blueberries, and maybe some lemon juice). When it comes out, pour on the syrup and eat it.
And now a song for you young folks out there
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
5/30/2011
A Short Movie Review: Six Sting Samurai
After Russia bombed and invaded in 1957, Las Vegas is the last bastion of freedom. When Elvis, the king of renamed Lost Vegas, dies, every rock-n-roller out there starts to cross the wasteland, vying to be the new king. There, that gave you the basic premise. What about the movie itself?
It is awesome. Even though it's a low-budget thing, everything came out impressively well. The guy who played the main character (a Buddy Holly look-alike) is a real martial artist, so the fights felt more authentic than you usually get from something like this, and the rest of the movie just goes to show what can be accomplished with a judicious level of grunge and the proper application of slow motion.
If you like post-apocalyptic things, ridiculous characters, Rock and Roll, kung-fu movies, Communist armies, and/or nice shoes, you will be entertained by this movie. I mean, when you have a character named "Death," who looks like Slash and, upon finding the broken bodies of a Commie army says, "Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me," how can you go wrong?
Now, I think I need to go and make sure my truck has a ratchet in it. Just in case.
It is awesome. Even though it's a low-budget thing, everything came out impressively well. The guy who played the main character (a Buddy Holly look-alike) is a real martial artist, so the fights felt more authentic than you usually get from something like this, and the rest of the movie just goes to show what can be accomplished with a judicious level of grunge and the proper application of slow motion.
If you like post-apocalyptic things, ridiculous characters, Rock and Roll, kung-fu movies, Communist armies, and/or nice shoes, you will be entertained by this movie. I mean, when you have a character named "Death," who looks like Slash and, upon finding the broken bodies of a Commie army says, "Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me," how can you go wrong?
Now, I think I need to go and make sure my truck has a ratchet in it. Just in case.
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