450

Yesterday Baconisgreat celebrated 450 days, as long as my and Excel's math is right. Thanks to everyone who reads it and puts up with my stories. It was coincidental that the 450th day happened to fall on hot dog game night. Hot dog game night was a celebration of hot dogs and games - we grilled up some dogs with Erin, John, Kirsten and Matt and tried different toppings and stuff on them. I'd been hanging out for hot dogs all week. Once hot dogs were down the games could begin - last night we played Taboo (winners were the team of Kirsten, John and myself), Say Anything (I believe Erin won), then John, Erin, Liz and I rocked out some charades (I think Erin and I won that). But it wasn't about who won and lost, it was about having a good time, which I think we all did. I want to publicly apologize again to Matt and Kirsten about leaving half of their Tofu Dogs on the grill - I swear, I didn't know they would stick.

Hot dog game night may have marked the end of summer even more than the equinox did on Wednesday because we ran out of gas/propane for the grill. I don't know if we want to fill it up just to have the tank sit there with lots of propane in it all winter, so the grill may (or may not, no decisions have been made) be finished for the season. We saw the Harvest Moon on Wednesday night - I guess looking at the attempted photos I can see a slight difference in color over the regular full moon, but I couldn't notice it much at the time.

Fall started with the equinox, and, with fall, new shows have been on TV. Liz and I have never been caught up enough on The Office to be able to watch it on TV as it is aired. It started on Thursday, and a week before it started we were 23 episodes off being able to watch it. We tried, but fell 3 episodes short of our valiant quest. Not to worry, we'll start watching it next week. The Amazing Race starts tomorrow, and if I ever see another minute of the fat people show that is on CBS, Mike and Molly, I think I'll go insane. I was disappointed to hear that there is a show on called "The Event". It seems like some event occurred, and now the series is about investigating the "event" and working out who was behind it etc. If network execs believe that people want to watch these types of shows, why didn't they just pick up FlashForward? Idiots. Star Wars The Clone Wars has had 3 episodes, all of them just ok - least ok was the Jar Jar one that we just watched. The trailer for season 3 holds so much promise, so it should pick up. But I can't really complain - 3 episodes and no Ahsoka.

Liz and I got ourselves a bread machine last weekend following the raging success of Aussie bread baking. The first loaf came out OK, but not as good as the Australian loaves did. The Australian machine used a general white bread mix, while this one used a gluten free setting, which seems to have made the bread more like the gluten free loaves we buy here. We weren't going for that, so we'll try the ingredients again, but on a white bread cycle and how we did it in Australia and see how it comes out. The first loaf was interesting - the kneading blade baked into the bread, which was unexpected. It was easily removed during slicing.

Speaking of Aussie stuff, there will be a new post soon with more Australia trip photos and stuff. They take a while to write because of the photos and remembering...

Off to the beach!