Easy Rider

Well, I've had a motorcycle for a couple of months now. Its a 2003 Kawasaki Vulcan Classic 800cc. So of course it was just a matter of time for my dad to get a bike too. Though they bike he got...I wouldn't exactly say its a motorcycle. More like a luxury car on two wheels. Though I have your typical crazy asian mom that thinks motorcycles are cool one day, then sees some people on Oprah or something that lost someone to a motorcycle accident then thinks that we shouldn't get another motorcycle. Of course you just have to wait a bit until she changes her mind again and you have a small window to get what you want before she changes her mind again...

The bike my dad settled on was the 2008 Honda Goldwing 1800cc. This bike has six cylinders, which is just ridiculous. It also has heated handle bars, heated seats, ABS, a navigation GPS system, CB radio, 4 speaker audio system, and a freak'n AIRBAG.

















So not only did he get the bike, we also got my mom to pick out a sweet helmet with butterflies for herself and even got her to ride on back for like 15 min.















Oh and of course my mom got a jacket with butterflies on it to match.

Egg McMuffin

I have heard a lot about this so called "Egg McMuffin" machine that Paula Deen has. Though I've had a Mcmuffin at Mcdonald's...and it wasn't very good so how could this machine make a good Mcmuffin? Though Ashley eats these almost as much as she eats ramen, and she eats ramen almost as much as she eats string cheese... So I had to try one for myself.

Thought I'd start this meal with a nice glass of apple cider. Pretty sweet pouring action this this shot.

Here Ashley is adding water to this crazy contraption:

The next step is cracking the egg into the crazy little frying pan. She got egg shell in it, she said it wasn't egg shell but I'm so sure it was.

After the egg is in you top it off with this silly plastic grate and then throw on a piece of canadian bacon, of course a piece of pork roll would be so much better.


Next you want to get your plate with your toasted english muffin on it and go ahead and lay a piece of cheese on it.


After you got the cheese on there you toss the meat on it.

Next you want to carefully scoop out the egg, it was stuck to the little pan even though we used some PAM.


After that crazy ordeal, top it off with the other half of the english muffin and whala! we have a egg mcmuffin.

I have to say it was pretty good, I wasn't even hungry and I ate it all. Maybe I should look into getting one of these Paula Deen machines...

Going On a Booze Cruise On Lake Wallenpaupack Update

Just a little quick update on the wine making. Took the gravity of the wine and it seemed to be pretty stable. The next step was to add some crazy junx (potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulphite) to the wine to help it clear and stir it to get as much CO2 out of it as possible. Also this other crazy bag of liquid derived from shells of shellfish and eggs...




















Also a bunch of water was added to top it off, hopefully it didn't water the down the wine too much.



Now we just have to wait 14 days before checking if the wine has cleared before bottling! Woot! Then there is some crazy thing saying that once bottling it has to sit for like 3 months before being consumed. Forget about that I've waited long enough for this junx to be ready, it doesn't matter what it tastes like as long as it gets the job done.

I Don't Even Like Jelly

You ever feel like a donut? Like sure from a certain angle you look like a full round pastry. But from above its just empty with a hole in the center of it. Like there is something missing but you're not sure what should be there.

Sure could put some glaze on it or some sprinkles or maybe cover it with coconut shavings, sure it makes the donut look different and cooler...like getting a new tv or motorcycle...but it still has a hole in the center of it.

I'm just trying to say the donut just doesn't look happy. Out of all the donuts out there, the only one that seems to have its life together is the Jelly Donut. The jelly donut doesn't have anything missing and just looks like its really enjoying its life.



I bet the Jelly Donut is really successful too, like I bet it has no worries in the world and gets to do whatever it wants and be happy. Such as being a successful musician.

The Jelly Donut just has better looks than the other donuts, like it could be a part time model because its so ridiculously good looking..


Also the Jelly Donut is worry free, is living on its own, and has a good job unlike the other donuts that are still living jobless with their parents. The Jelly Donut even has the mortgage paid off...

I guess I'm just trying to say I've been feeling like a regular donut lately, and wish I was more like the jelly donut, with the jelly filling, the jelly house, the jelly job, and the jelly love. Maybe even a glass of milk too.

Going On a Booze Cruise On Lake Wallenpaupack

5 Days ago I was really bored and got my Dad to start making wine again so I had something to do. Went to the local Beer/Wine store and bought a fancy little starter kit for making wine. It wasn't exactly cheap...it was about 90 bones for the kit and another 60 bones for the grape juice concentrate.

Though the one thing that bothered me was that my Dad had made wine before, but when we opened the kit...he didn't really know what any of the stuff was for except for the carboy and stoppers, wasn't really familiar with the crazy chemicals.

Here is the cool box most of the stuff came in:

This is the bucket for the first fermentation:

Here are some random packets of chemicals that came with the concentrate:

Today we racked the wine out of the bucket to the carboy (fancy name for just a glass jug):


Here is my sexy arm holding the siphon:

And here is the all the tine in the carboy:


Now I just have to wait another 10 days before checking the gravity of this junx, add some more chemicals to make it taste better or something...and then wait another 14 days before bottling this junx. Its about 6 gallons of wine, so hopefully I'll get 23 bottles if they're liter bottles...or 30 750 mL bottles...either way...sweet...

Art Born from Boredom

When I was doing my internship, I had a lot of time on my hands. I would come into work and sit down at my cubicle, and just sit there for 8 hours with nothing to do. While randomly searching programs on my computer, I saw that I had bitmap. I decided to draw...I title this one "Keg".
After looking at this picture for awhile, I realized that you can't have a keg with out a game of beer pong...

I don't know where my next idea for drawing came from...but I then drew this:

I guess because alcohol is a depressant, and if you drink and drive you'll probably hit a squirrel. Next is an ocean scene, despite what it might look like the stick figure is not suicidal...

For the next one, I was thinking you always hear about "Mad" scientists, but you never hear about the happy ones! What's up with that?

I was in the islander mood for the next one, or I was inspired from watching Cast Away prior:

I like the crab, he's pretty cool looking. Also the coconut is pretty badass. If I had to be a coconut I would be that one. The tree took forever to draw, I'm so bad at drawing trees. Everyone else could draw them better in my kindergarten class.

I thought I was done drawing. But then one of my email buddies asked me to do a scuba diving picture because I like to scuba dive. Then I thought I would turn it around and told them,"you draw one first! and we'll see who's picture is better..." Here is her picture:


I'm sure I spent a little more time on mine:

Titled this one "Scuba Steve". So yeah, those are my bitmap works of art. Maybe I'll draw some more sometime...maybe at my next job.

For the Grass

There is a pond behind the house. It's pretty big and its usually filled with millions of lilies. Though when its starts to get colder, all the lilies die leaving a nice wide open body of water for the geese to land and hang out in. Of course the geese don't stay in the pond. They have to walk up and eat the grass in the back yard. Also the geese like to poop all over the place, especially where the driveway is located.

This isn't just a few geese, its like the entire population of geese from Canada like to migrate to this little pond and take over the backyard. I don't even like grass, I could care less what shape its in...but after seeing these monsters destroy the yard I'm compelled to save those defenseless blades of monocotyledonous green plant.

Now I guess I could just walk out there and the geese will return to the pond after waving my arms and maybe even yelling a bit. But I don't really feel like walking out there and that whole process just isn't fast enough.
I'd rather just break out a BB gun and shoot them from a distance. Of course their feathers are thick to do any damage, but its enough to get them to flock back into the pond and swim on the far end of it.


Another victory for Lazy Son...