The new grill

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This is my 32nd bday gift. This is a GGPL-2100 BBQ Grillware grill. 3 burners, 42,000 btu's, stainless steel, Porcelain cast-iron cooking surface, side burner, thermometer on the hood gas grill.

My schedule is so booked up, I won't be able to grill until Sunday. I'm planning breakfast, lunch and dinner - an entire day of grilling. Non-stop grilling action. Pictures to come... :)

Beer is good!

Yeah so this is pretty old, but still entertaining.. click the picture and enjoy.

Camping!

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Finally got around to posting the pictures I took from camping last weekend. What a grand weekend it was. JC and I went on a wild golf cart ride at 2 a.m., and ended up at a campground party to hose off our cooler after spilling it in the mud. I woke up with mud on my leg the next day. Saturday was a nice and relaxing day, we played frisbee and goofed around the campsite until the Phenominals rocked Camp Sack in at night. Yay summer!!

Video 1 - Bryan eating steak and drinking Milwaukees Best

Video 2 - The Phenominals rocking, and Aaron flexing

MonroeTalks.com

If you haven't heard me talking about it, at work, we launched a new website called MonroeTalks.com. We have labored over this thing for months, and it's a really pleasure to finally see it go live. I posted a pretty thorough blog post about how it was built on TechBox today if you're interested in seeing the nuts and bolts, but in a nutshell, the site is a forum, photo gallery and calendar of events, all of which users are able to freely post to. I can honestly tell you that I never thought I'd see this completed, so I am pretty thrilled. Even better, the reaction to it has been amazing, people seem to love it! I'd have to say on days like today, my job is quite fulfilling! Just don't ask me tomorrow.. :p Anyhow, check out the site and let me know what you think.

Lessons learned.

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I learned a few things yesterday hanging out with the dudes.

1) Don't ever try to catch a frisbee with your teeth.

2) If someone tells you "hey dude, that guy left - go get the food he left on his table" - don't believe them, unless you see the guy actually walk out of the restaurant yourself.

3) Free cake from an old ladies birthday party is good - even better when you win $5 for going to retrieve it.

4) Dogs love you when you have taco meat smeared all over your shorts.

My new lunch box

Here it is folks. The new lunch box I bought at a garage sale for .25 cents. The cool thing is (see image below) - I had purchased a thermos a few years back at a garage sale - probably for a $1, that I use everyday. And it fits securely into the top of this bad boy. I suppose I could put this set on e-bay and make hundreds.. but for now, I'm going to use the heck out of them. Side note here - my dad and Jens dad both had the exact same lunch box/thermos set back in their factory days.

Crawfish Boil

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The crawfish boil was a success! We drove up to Marshall, it probably took us a little over a half hour to get there from our campsite in Angola, IN. Marshall is a really nice historic town. There was a wedding party gathered in the middle of the town circle taking pictures and clowning around. We made it to Dark Horse and had to park across the street - the place was jam packed (probably should consider going earlier next year). We went out to the beer garden area. There was a loud band rocking out. I grabbed a beer and we got in line for the crawfish. There was a bunch of people needed to keep a constant flow of this food going. One guy was back boiling up potatos, garlic, crawfish and corn. Another was slicing bread, a couple other were constantly shucking corn. The coolest part was watching the guy dump the big pile of the fresh boiled mix out onto the table. The line was long but moved really fast. We went up a couple times, Jen loaded her plate with crawfish and other goodies, but didn't eat the crawfish. My method for eating them was breaking off the tail and sucking the inside out - sometimes you'd get something, other times not - I told jen this was sucking the brains out. Next I'd crack the tail in half and usually the inside would slide right out. You should have seen my white shirt after I was done.. I'm sure my face was just as bad. We hung out and chatted to some nice guys from Howell, MI. One of them was smoking a big fat cigar and wow did it smell good. We went inside where I had a Sapient Triple Ale, and one of their raspberry beers. I ended up with a growler of Crooked Tree IPA and a Dark Horse t-shirt. Everyone at the place was really nice, the people that work for Dark Horse and the patrons. I overheard a guy that worked there talking about an event they are planning in August similar to the crawfish boil, only with chicken wings! Looking forward to going back there soon.

Crawfish Boil!

Jen and I are going to a crawfish boil at Darkhorse Brewing in Marshall, MI this weekend. I should be sending some pictures to my Flickr, so if you're absolutely bored this weekend - check it out.

Trivium.

Believe it or not, I was into metal way back in the day. Sometimes I like to crank up old Metallica and re-live the old days. I was recently turned on to this band, and I absolutely love them. It's on the i-pod as I drive to work everyday.. better than a cup o' coffee!

Fat Man!

Fat-Man.org - Watch videos of this dude doing odd things, like eating a whole big bag of potato chips in 8 minutes! Come on, you know you can't resist. :)

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