D4s L33t B33r P0urs F0rth

So over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading through “The Foie Gras Wars” by Mark Caro… Milady thought it would be a good read for me since I’m such a fan of the stuff.

But in reading through (I’m a bit over halfway through now) I am seeing the ways that people go to promote their personal agenda which mostly was anti-foie gras. But now I’m curious to know what people’s thoughts are on the stuff…

a) have you eaten foie gras before?
b) would you eat foie gras if it was presented to you in a dish?
c) if not, why?
d) are you aware of what goes into the making of foie gras?

And since I’m pretty much opening this one up… if responses are attacking anyone or me, I will delete such comments. I know that this is a hotbed issue with certain folks but I am curious. Plain and simple. I don’t need more propaganda tossed my way… I’ll just delete such comments while sipping a glass of Riesling and munching on some pan-seared foie gras…

there will be no OMGWTFBBQ… after several years of running this thing I think I have run out of ideas of what to do and definitely don’t have the time nor patience to do this for another year.

In the event that I change my mind it will be a much smaller scale than in previous years in which I would contact each person individually with a date and time.

in other news… I am two months nicotine free… and something like ten weeks caffeine free…

that is all…

and to think I gave up drinking the Mtn Dew… O_o

I seem to lead the most boring life of them all… seriously, I get up… I go to work… I come home… sometimes I’ll go and workout if my back isn’t screaming in pain at the end of the day and then come home for a few hours before I go to bed. This has been the routine for the past month or so… toss in hockey playoffs and you’ve got my life summed up nice and neatly since mid-April.

This past weekend was no exception… except for the trip up to Overland for dinner just try the place out. And they can keep their restaurant right where it’s at because I know I won’t be frequenting that location again. Food was meh at best… and definitely were understaffed by the time we left. Somehow they didn’t take into consideration the fact that it was Memorial Day weekend and had maybe two servers on duty that night.

But my major accomplishments for the weekend? Somehow it wasn’t working out everyday this weekend. I did workout on Friday and Saturday… but by the time Sunday rolled around my back was in so much pain that it was even pinching a nerve in my leg so it hurt when I walked. But things seem to be a bit better today after taking two days off from the gym.
The major accomplishments for me dealt with Warcraft… *sigh*… I know… fuckin’ gamers!!!! Saturday morning I ran a few Heroic instances for the achievements which was a good thing for me… yesterday morning we ran through Karazhan and blasted through it like it was nothing. And then it came down to me doing a lot of solo work to crank out some major achievements before I called it a day.
First it all started up in Storm Peaks with finishing out the quest for the “The Summit of Storm Peaks” achievement that states I completed 100 quests in that area, which leaves me with Icecrown to complete for the Northrend Loremaster. Along the way I opened up a whole new section that I wasn’t expecting and am now also beginning that reputation grind to Exalted.
As I was finishing that up I was noticing that I was inching closer to “The Seeker” which is 3000 quests in total completed… and these are not piddly little quests of talk to this person… these are kill stuff and collect items quests. Some of them killed me many many times and I was VERY frustrated (Milady can vouch for that one) with certain quests that were acting buggy and would end up killing me.
Anyway… it was off to Netherstorm from the old Burning Crusade campaign to finish off as much of that area as possible before calling it a night but getting my 3000 quests completed. Eventually I hit my goal for the day and noticed I was about 10 quests shy of finishing up Netherstorm… so I just had to finish that stuff up. By 10pm PT I had completed my 120 Netherstorm quests which gave me my Outlands Loremaster achievement.

Slowly I am inching closer to my Loremaster title… I have to complete Icecrown (61 quests to go) and then finish up whatever I can find within the old world continents. Eastern Kingdom is 74 quests shy… and Kalimdor is 50 quests shy. It’s a lot of questing in those areas… but would be one heck of an achievement to have ^_^

and that is my life right now… boring, right?

ok… now that’s looking like fun…

you may not watch it if you are not ScaryTeddy… :P

still going… it’s the dead times in the evening that are killing me for the most part but I’m surviving just fine thus far. No one has died…

How I’ve been spending my time over the past week-plus…
World of Warcraft…
watching the Ducks vs Sharks series…
going to unofficial Ducks watch parties…
joining a gym…
catching up on my Netflix movies…
catching up on the many many hours on the DVR…
reading (now have a couple of books going at the same time)…

and of course there is work and the new project I’ve been tasked to handle… re-writing our GMP manual to bring it up to a certain standard that would get us compliant for several different certifications. Already it’s undergoing a huge change… we’ll see if I can manage these changes to be enforced company-wide. If I don’t get the support from the top then this is just mindless work for me that means nothing beyond the ink that’s printed on the paper.

So that is all for now… now, no liking the snouts of pigs… you might get swine flu. I’d prefer you to get the new strain that is called the Duck Flu… especially with 4pm PT game starts tomorrow O_o

A little common sense will go a long way folks… Do not do the following…

(more…)

ZOMG!!!! Swine H4XX0R!!!!!!!!!
This is enjoyable right now because I get to watch the stupidity of people, in particular certain individuals within my own workplace, of fueling the paranoia. Two days in a row we have received hand outs fueling the panic followed by the words “but don’t panic”…
What in the hell is this? The beginning of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

You just can’t stop watching this tragedy… it’s a trainwreck with a surprise ending that is just too hilarious to put into words…