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Grilling a whole chicken

It was Labor Day weekend and you better believe we did some grilling. The most interesting item was a whole chicken done on the Weber...

Some minor reorganization

I, shall we say, can be a bit obsessive about organization and tidiness. In general this is seen in the way our house looks but...

Laphroaig 10

Well my fun week continued and other things got in the way of a second post last week, which always annoys me. The air conditioner...

It's been a week

We've started potty training in earnest, which my wife courageously began without me during my weekend in Vegas . Our son went naked...

Using a charcoal grill

Nearly all my friends use gas to grill, so I thought I'd do a little explainer on charcoal and why it's preferable. My wife was (*Bane...

Vegas (and traveling) during Covid

Think of me what you will, but a friend and I traveled to Las Vegas this past weekend. After getting a few nights comped at the Palazzo...

Smoked chicken wings

Lately I've really been craving chicken wings. Since I don't think I've grilled them before (I know we've done slow-cooker and oven...

Making mocktails

If you actually know me and didn't already know the following I apologize for not sharing. We're expecting our second child in December....

Dalwhinnie GoT House Stark 'Winters Frost'

To coincide with the final season of Game of Thrones, and its total train-wreck of a narrative, Diageo last year released a line of...

Board games after children (The Mind)

Board games, particularly strategy games, have always been something I enjoy. As a kid through elementary and middle school I played a...

Homer, AK

We have family that lives near Homer, Alaska. It's quite a trip, but it's one we try to make once a year to see those loved ones and...

Sick and tired

This was supposed to be a happy post. Going to be called 'The boys are back!' I'd cover the return of baseball over the weekend. It's...

Disney remakes

What's the real motivation behind all of the 'live-action' remakes of Disney animated classics in recent years? Is it simply a straight...

Hamilton

Hamilton was, and is, a national phenomenon. I never thought we'd see it and like many others was quite happy it'd be streaming on...

Colonel Taylor Small Batch

Today's whiskey review is of a bottle I found for a great price in Alaska of all places, the Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch. The Grog...

Am I ready?

I really tried to finish enough blog posts to cover an absence of more than a week. Not quite succeeding, at least I only missed one....

Origins of the Louvre

Well I'm still tackling Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts, and as always not making enough time to read. Even missing a lot of context...

Yellow Spot 12

I really like Green Spot, a relatively premium NAS Irish whiskey. It's probable we first tried it in Ireland on our 2015 trip there,...

Assateague Island

One of the cooler places we've visited since moving out east is Assateague Island on the Maryland/Virginia coast, part of the Delmarva...

Knives Out

I like movies, but I'm rarely up to date on most current ones. I see, generally, a number of comic book films and rare others (say,...

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