Baseball started...beat feet Old Man Winter.

Tomorrow is April 1st. Yet it's supposed to snow. Eff that. Baseball season opened today with my boys winning 6-3...and my favorite modern Yankee threw out the first pitch.

Too bad Moose can't sign a one year contract. He'd probably kick Burnett's inconsistent ass any day. Greying beard or not.


Been a long, cold winter without this.

Mission 28 boys, lets go.

Dear Moose, you know you want a ring. Come back? Love, Me.

Katie Lee's Garlic Bread...or what I call idiotproof garlic bread.

I saw this in Cosmo, and actually put my own spin on it by adding shredded mozzarella cheese. Who knew I could be so creative...

Seriously, the fact that I can cook and don't suck still shocks me, considering (if you've been around a while) that this is a newfound talent of mine.

Pre-oven

You need:
1 loaf of Italian bread cut lengthwise.
6 tablespoons of softened butter
1 tablespoon of parsley
1/8 teaspoon of salt
4 cloves of minced garlic (4 teaspoons of the jar stuff)
Shredded Mozzarella cheese if you like.


Preheat your oven to 400.

Cut the loaf of bread lengthwise (like you're making a giant sub sandwich)

Put the butter (softened to a consistency you can easily mash), salt, parsley, and garlic in a small bowl and mix together into a mushy paste...just make sure the parsley and garlic are well distributed and not in globs in the butter.

Finished product. Nom.

Spread this on each half of the loaf of bread. Put the bread back together & wrap in tinfoil. Bake for 10 minutes.

Take it out of the oven and place each half (garlic butter side up) on a baking sheet. If you like cheesy garlic bread, feel free to sprinkle shredded mozzarella on each half...otherwise just pop it back into the oven for 5-10 more minutes.

The recipe I got this from calls for 5, but also doesn't include the cheese...and everytime I've made it, 10 minutes has been the magic number for the cheese to sufficiently melt. Remove from oven, cut up, and nom away.

See? Piece of cake.

Because we all feel like this sometimes...

Me, being my usual stupid self on my wandering adventure today.

Debating.

I might do some videoblog type posts.

What do we think about this?

What do you want to see me rant about?

As an aside, feel free to use those LinkWithin posts below the posts now. They self-updated to eliminate all the deleted crap.

Me likey.

Spring is here!
The extended outlook, however, leaves much to be desired.

A little tune...

I may be crazy, but I was sitting at work today when this came up on my iPod and I thought it was fitting given present world events.

This Harry Potter edit was the only non-butchered bootleg type video I could find.

Musical Tuesday: Phoenix - Lisztomania

This song has been perpetually on replay in my head for the last three weeks.



This is by no means an official video, but whoever did this is so creative and it was a better alternative than posting some stupid hackjob lyric video.

Technical difficulties.

As you may notice, if you were a pre-blog purge reader, the LinkWithin box is back...for now.

None of these stories exist anymore.

After the blog purge I had deleted this widget because it was still pulling up stories I mass-deleted, which if people click them wanting to read them, they're going to get pissed off pretty quickly when a good 75% or so of related posts it spits out no longer exist...

While it is still doing so, I'm keeping it for now, just because the LinkWithin website says the widget will produce more relevant results once it crawls my blog. I'm hoping that once it crawls it, it will get rid of all the bum links and only show the ones that still exist.

If it doesn't fix itself, it will be gone again, but I'm hoping it does. I liked the feature, and I like blogs that have the feature because it helps readers explore a blog, and hopefully stick around if they find me via Googling something or similar.

Anyways, fingers crossed...and if anyone knows of something similar to this that is compatible with Blogger, please feel free to share, I'm open to ideas.

Spring's a coming...

I shot this picture of the beautiful late winter sky Sunday afternoon.
The piles of snow are melting, the days are getting noticably longer...and we're forecasted to hit 60 degrees by the end of the week.
Good riddance winter, don't come back until late next December please.

Geoff Fox: The end of an era.

My initial Geoff Fox post is this here blog's most popular post.

Geoff in 1985

Last night marked the official conclusion of his tenure at WTNH and it passed with little fanfare. That's because their general manager is a coward.

The public outcry at the non-renewal of Geoff's contract was deemed a "distraction," so at the end of Geoff's pre-scheduled vacation time, he was told that he would not be allowed to finish out his contract on the air.

Last night at the gym, on one of the zillions of TVs they had WTNH's evening news on. Watching the new guy, Steve MacLaughlin made me want to hurl my water bottle at the TV. Over the past month and a half-ish, I've weaned myself from WTNH...minus the morning crew, because I talk to them on Twitter, and they aren't n00bs. I came to terms with the fact that good old Mark Higgins was not going to come to his freakin senses and decide "Oh hey, let's renew Geoff's contract after all."

After 26 years or, as Geoff put it so succinctly on his blog last night, "For the last 9780 days I've been employed by WTNH, Channel 8. Tonight at midnight that run ends. 26 years, 9 months, 8 days", you would think that WTNH, LIN and the powers that be would have the common decency to let the man come back one last freakin time and bid his viewers farewell on the air. Nope, of course not. They owed it to him, they owed it to their loyal viewers (who I'm sure a good portion of will defect to other stations now) who watched Geoff forecast for 26 years. Instead  for the past week they over-promote the crap out of a winter weather special with their other meteorologists. (Gil and Dr. Mel are great, the two new ones I refuse to watch for more than 30 seconds). How about have a "Farewell Geoff" special? He was under contract until midnight last night, and I'm pretty sure that Geoff would have done it for his viewers, his fans.

Geoff in more recent times.

Poorly handled all around. You can claim the viewers complaining are a distraction, but last night, the book closed on a long, and illustrious chapter of Connecticut weather broadcasting, which deserves recognition. For whatever legitimate or illegitimate reasons this situation played out the way it did, they should have pushed aside the drama for one night and at least let him on air one more time.

Mark Higgins, you freakin blew it dude, you totally blew it.

As for Geoff, I selfishly hope his new job keeps him here in Connecticut. However if future endeavors take him to Florida or Cali to be near his parents and daughter respectively, so be it.

PS: Whoever made this is my hero. Really. It's so true.