Cooking Review - Slow cooker

I broke in the slow cooker today. I made sloppy joes. I did not follow the recipe too well. I put in have the peppers and onions that was called for. It turned out good.

This is how I made it:

Brown 2 pounds ground beef with 2 medium onions cut into slivers. Then I put that in the slow cooker with 2 medium red peppers sliced up, 1 medium green pepper sliced, 1 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 tablespoon chili powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Mixed it all up and cooked on low for 8 hours.

Cooking review - Cookies

So tonight I baked cookies. They turned out good. None burned and like usual my first batch was the best. Nothing fancy just chocolate chip cookies, but I was able to confirm what I had guessed before I made the Bread... my oven runs about 25 degrees higher than it says. I baked both at the lower temp with good results. Too many cookies and I have chocolate milk....

Cooking review

I made some white bread on Saturday. It turned out good. I will have to see how well the next batch turns out. I took half a loaf to Mom's and putting more than half a loaf in the freezer. It is different cooking for one. Not many recipies are designed for just one. I end up throwing stuff in the fridge or freezer, and having leftovers another time.

Training Anyone?

Someone started this week on my team. This is the third or fourth person I have trained on my team. I have train everyone who as started after me except for one who started while I was still a temp. Dom has them spend a week training with me then they spend a couple of days at each of the other locations and then another week with me and then they go to the site they end up at. This guy should do well. He came over from the data center so he know a lot of our programs already and he had hardware experience at a previous job. His is going to be at BGH, so I do not have to crame too much too fast. It will be nice to have a "full" staff back at BGH. We are a little behind.

completed tasks

Missy was kind enough to select fabric and reupholster my dining room chairs. So, Friday I cut the pad and sat pulling the old stuff off the chiars and she up the new stuff on as soon as I had all the old fabric and staples off.






Yesterday I got my washer, and I had dad come over to help install the dryer. There was two different size gas pipes one size coming from the house and another size on the dryer.

Yesterday I also got a lawnmower and put it together and mowed my lawn. I guess I should
have had the bag on for the first run through. Looks like I will have some work to do on the front yard. There are a few bare spots and bunch of dips and holes.

Moved in

I have moved most of my things to the new house. I have been buying a bunch of things too. I still have some things to get and do.

Cow Training

Work sent me and one other tech, Tim, to South Carolina for training on the computer on wheels. Rioux, the company that makes our COWs, wants us trained on the device. This allows us to work on them and not void the warrenty.

Day one(Tuesday) - travel

The flight was at 11 something in the morning. I got to airport at 9 something. There was no line so it took less the ten minuste to get all to the gate and I spent the two hours play AOE. We flew into DC with no problem. While I was at DC I called Amy and confused her a bit. We got in the plane and it took them a while to get the fuel in the plane and then when the plane was waiting in line to take off, the piolet announce that they were told to shut off their engines and that air traffic was suspended and we sat there for over an hour. We got into Columbia about two hours late. We stayed at the Wingate hotel. This was a decent place to stay.

Day two - First day of training

Training was ok. They had us go through the different stations assembling the devices. They took us to Red Robin for lunch. Then we had a short class and a test. It was interesting. After we got out of there we went to the state capitol building. During the Civil War when Sherman came through burning everything this build was being built. A few cannons were fired at this building and when it was finished, Stars were place on the building to show where the cannon balls hit. There was a monument to the Confederate army in the front and a Confederate flag was flying there. My phone died and I dont have my cameria. We saw a few mansions and a few other points of interest. We saw the statium for CSU. That is one huge statium. It is a good three or four times the size of the one UB has. After that we went on a hunt for new hats. Drove around for hours and did not find anything.

Day three

More training. today we did more of the trouble shooting side of things. The took us to a place called red bowl, which was a asian restarant. After lunch we talked with the owner and got our certificates and they let us out early. We went to the airport from there and found a place to gets hats on the way. So I got my hat. Hopefully we will not have any issues on the flight home.

15 Jun 2007 14:00

Quote of the day

Anatidaephobia is the fear that no matter where you go, or what you do; somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

I have a 24 inch monitor sitting in my office. It will not be deployed for a couple of weeks. I wonder how AOE would look on it.

New Coffee Table? This looks cool

New template

This new blogger makes it a bit too easy to change everything. I am not sure if I will add all the elements back into my blog. I did save the HTML code just in case. I think I will leave it plain for a little bit.

Annual Review

I had my annual review last week at work. It is kind of interesting that they assess our work for the previous year half way into this year. It did make setting goals last year easy... I had already had a good start on the goals before they even got set. I did not have to set any goals for this year. I went well beyond last years goals. According to my manager, I am underpaid and one of the top members on my team. So that means a large raise(15%) and he said next year he will try to put through the same size raise.

Restraunt Review... Blue moon

We all went last night to Blue Moon Buffet for Mom's Birthday dinner. The selection was not all that great. We did hav fun though. Madelyn was allowed to try anything.... She does not like jello for some reason, but ...

It's Buffalo, it snows...

We got a little bit of snow over the weekend. The south towns got a lot. It is also cold, very cold. It was so bad this morning, that I got in my truck, put it in reverse and did not move at all. I looked down and made sure I was in reverse and tried again, no go. Third time I gunned it and the started pulsing the gas. I heard pop, pop as the ice/snow broke away. I never thought a vechile would be frozen to the driveway. then when I adjusted the volume and channel on my radio, the volume and station changed but it took the display a while to catch up. The temp has jumped 5 degrees since I have been at work. It is up to 4 now, but the wind chill is -17. It is suppose to snow all week, but it is also suppose to slowly warm up... Saturday the high is forecasted at 21. Here is a couple of fun links...

Golden snowball

Here comes the snow