found this video, and love the humor. It’s put together by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation advertising their ipad app.
hope you enjoy!
found this video, and love the humor. It’s put together by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation advertising their ipad app.
hope you enjoy!
I have been wondering a long time whether or not to keep my blog, yesterday I started playing around with some design and came up with this super simple theme. It got me focused briefly on my blog. So today I am implementing it as a beta version and hopefully I’ll spend a little more time here. We’ll see as for now this website has some interesting features. See if you can find them. Post a comment with your thoughts!
- hold nothing back.
I have learned much about cooking in the past month. I have read more and more cookbooks that deal with how to cook not just books of recipes. One of my culinary desires was to to create my own barbecue sauce. So after doing some reading I set out to make some sauce last Saturday.
It started with getting some bottles to hold my sauce, so I went and picked up three squeeze bottles. Then I came home and started mixing. My first sauce had I was looking for a good rich flavor, not too, not too sweet. It ended with a slightly overpowering cumin flavor, and a little more spicy than I wanted but had some good flavor. I had copied down the ingredients so I can replicate the sauce but without the cumin.
Then came sauce two, this one was my sweet sauce. Sweetened with molasses, brown sugar, honey, and maple syrup. I will probably make a few tweaks on it during the next try, but it was really good.
The third and final sauce was my spicy sauce, this was a vinegar and molasses based sauce with a decent kick, I wanted it a tad spicier but I tasted it when I was reducing it a little, and the heat (temperature) made the flavor hotter (flavor) than it was after it was chilled, so again I have some tweaks to make.
Then I had two friends over to try my sauces that evening, it was a byom BBQ so we had steaks and some burgers. Both of them like the flavors of them but I’m not quite sold on them yet, so I will continue to tweak, but I’m glad they enjoyed it. Let me know if you want to try my sauces, let me know, I’ll see what I can do.
There are so many things at which I have learned how to do none of which do I feel I have mastered. I’ve wanted to write a post similar to this for some time and call it “stuff you didn’t know I could do” or “Random Facts about Me”, but I’m settling with the current title.
My current “trade” is teaching to which I have two years of on the job training and no more. I really enjoy it and have been told I am a natural teacher.
Other trades that I have been involved in…
I was a car prep at Enterprise Rent-a-Car and did a whole lot more than that.
I worked the grill and fryers at McDonald’s and as well as helped assemble the burgers. (Anyone who knows me well, know I hate McDonald’s.
I have worked as a Janitor in high school cleaning classrooms and bathrooms.
Those are the employed things I have done in my love. The longest of those jobs that I had was Enterprise where I work for 2 and 1/2 years. The shortest was McDonald’s where I was there for 3 to 4 months.
How ever this is not the end of my know-how. Lets move on to my volunteer service.
I spent 3 high school summers working at Camp Ironwood, A Christian Camp in the Mojave Desert. During which time I:
Dug many ditches
Trimmed Shrubs,
Ran a cash register
Ran errands
Learn How to Edit Videos
Learn How to drive stick
Ran Plumbing
Did Inventory
Counted to 1000
Touched an Electric Fence
Counsel as Camp Counselor
Did Dishes in the Dish Palace
Take apart a Transmission
And did anything else they asked me to do.
I also learned a lot of other things too.
Now there are even more things to which I have learned how to do, that I don’t necessarily remember where I learned them they go as follows:
How to frame a wall
Run and attach Electrical wire
Laid Tile
Laid Carpet.
There are things which I have been taught at home.
How to mow a lawn
How to take an engine out of a car (it never got put back)
Rebuild a lawn mower
Cross-stitch
Bake (real baking from scratch)
Cook
Bar-B-Que
Paint
Other Completely Random Things
I can solve a Rubik cube in 2 minutes
I can make a scorpion wire sculpture
I cam make a handful of origami
I make some awesome paper airplanes
I design website
I’ve played baseball, soccer, and basketball.
I’ve played the trumpet and tuba.
I’ve flown a plane,
I’ve acted in dramatic productions
I’ve been a puppeteer
I’ve preached in church
I’ve won debates in competition.
I’m not even sure this list is extensive or complete.
But I Don’t want to get to the end of this post and say, look at all the things that I have done in my short life, I want to look at this list and say, “Thank You, God, for giving me a healthy life, where I have been given an opportunity to have learned and have been involved in so many things. As I don’t know how many more days that I may have on this earth, teach me to use these things I have learned and to use them for your honor and will. May the talents you have given to me not be buried, but let them be multiplied and used to help others.”
I am working up a new post entitled “Why I am not a Blogger”. Post release date is scheduled for early 2010. I hope you will look forward to reading it.