Kelly and I in the Jeep, yea we were dorks back then too, this kind of dorkage takes years of nuturing!
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Charlie on my bed chillin out while I'm saving the world with Tim on the computer :)
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SafeServe Certified

Well now I'm officially ServeSafe certified. Which is a relly good thing that I can add to my resume after I brush off the dust tht has accumiliated on it the past year or so sinceI last worked on it. At the end of this year I will be a more valuable commidity because every resturaunt will be required to have at least one person certified in there kitchen.

I scored a 90% on the exam, which is good, I passed, but I should have done better. Oh well, in Five years I'll have to do it again.

Lets see what else is new... The apartment is all clean so that is nice.

Had a really big thunderstorm this morning that almost woke me up. It was fun to listen to, then I went back to sleep. And I think its time to post a new up-to-date pictue of Charlie.

Bowling!

Tonight William, Tim, and I met up for a couple beers and a few games of bowling. It was alot of fun and we will do it again soon I'm sure. The best part was that Willy brought his own bowling shoes, he would have brought his ball, but he couldnt find it(yea I'm like totally surrised too). We were the only ones in the entire ally too, which made it pretty nice, it was quiet so we could chat, it was like we rented teh whole place out for ourselves.

The first game was a warmup. William scored a 88, Tim got a 91, and I got a 96. Close game. The second game, William Scored a 96, Tim 79, and I got a 122. the Third game William got a 64, Tim got a 72 and I got a 144.

Now if you re-cap that correctly you will realize this... I whooped some serious butt, and second, I creamed Kelly's score of 106. HAHAAHAHAH WHATS UP WHOS YOUR OLDER BROTHER NOW HAHAAHAHHAAHAHAH
okay sorry had to get it out.

After bowling we went to the brewery for a munchie and beer and called it a night.

Good times!

One of my all time favorite pictures of my Dad This is at Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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One more..... sorry tons of pictures today!
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Neat silouette.
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Looking down the barrel of a connon into Jamestown. Got the idea of this shot from one of Dad took of a cannon in Connecticut.
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Neat spot.
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Neat Creek
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Happy Spring!
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Sean and big Tree :)
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Jacobs Field. Right across from the restuarant we ate at called Copperstown Cleveland.
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This turned out nice
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Couldnt Resist.
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Sean the Photographer, reminds me of a favorite picture I took of Dad and later drew of Dad taking a picture in the Rockies. Should find that again, I wouldnt mind seeing it again.
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Parts of lat steamer to sail on the lake at Bemus point.
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Neat Picture
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Sean the Photograher!
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Fantomas Concert in Cleveland!!!!

Well I have just arrived home and spent the past hour going through all the pictures I took in the past 48 hours. I took about 70, and still ahd room for 100 more! A while back I purchased a memroy card for the new camera, the least expensive one I found was 25 bucks and it was a 128MB card, plenty of space!

Saturday we planned on leaving about noon to start our treck to Cleveland. So about 2:30 we were on the road. We stopped at Wegmans for lunch and picked up a map of Cleveland from AAA, which came in use, good thinking Christine! We arrived in Cleveland at about 6:30 and spent about a hlf hour driving around trying to find the place where the concert was being held. The Agora Ballroom. Which happened to be on the edge of the not so nicest of areas of the city. So this is where themap came in handy.

Once we found the place we were hungry. We went to Copperstown Cleveland. I sports/rock themed place. We felt a bit out of place there, everyone was wearing Minnesota Twins shirts fro some reason, even though the resturaunt is directly across from Jacobs Field(Cleveland Indians). And everyone was smoking inside! Which is kinda fun at first since we can't do that in New York anymore. We grabbed a seat in there dining room area. Christine order a plate of nachos, Sean ordered some Chicken Fingers, and I ordered THREE WAYS. YEA. Theyhad on there appetizer seaction 'Rock City Chili', and underneath that they had 2-ways, the chili with cheese and scallions, then underneath that, theyhad 5-ways, with sourcream and onions added with pasta. So I got 2-ways with pasta. That was awesome, I dont think it was as good as the Three-Ways we make, and it had a ton of beans. The beans werent bad, there was too much of them, I may consider adding beans to the next batch of three ways now. So my day was made, I was on cloud nine, I was already dying to get home and write about ordering three ways in a resturaunt on my blog!
After our amazing meal, we went back to the Agora Ballroom for the show. There were three bands playing.
The first was Trevor Dunns Trio Convulsant. This was cool, there was a guitarist, a drummer and a bassist. The guitarist was MaryHalvorson, a classically trained guitarist, she played with such accuracy it was awesome to see. Christine got her to sign my ticket stubb! The bassist was Trevor Dunn, he is also the bassist for Fantomas , he played the upright bass and that was really fun to see, we was going crazy with it too. There music was alot of fun to listen too, no lyrics or vocals, all intrumental. I will probably pick up there CD.
Second was a band called The Locust, these guys were nuts. They set up with the drummer right in front, he obviously led the show, right off the bat I was amazed at the level of sound they put out, it was loud, very very loud, but very powerful, I was shocked. After a few songs it all sounded like noise to me, but that first burst was incredible. I wont be getting there CD, but I wont forget that first burst.
Lastly was Fantomas, the group we really really were looking forward to seeing. Led by Mike Patton, probably my favorite music artist person to listen too. I have been listeing to Fantomas for a few years now, thanks to Sean. I was thining during the show, that I love this music so much, that I have no clue what I would be listening to now if Sean hadnt shown me Mike Patton and Mr. Bungle, Tomohawk, Peeping Tom, Fantomas, etc. This group, Fantomas is amazing. The drummer is the drummer from Slayer, the bassist is from the Melvins, he has huge huge hair like a afro on a white guy. The bassist is Trevor Dunn. It was so much fun and awesome to see them do there music live. They played a bunch of tracks from all there albums even the new one I bough last Tuesday, it was so much fun, they even played my favorite track on the new album, that was awesome!

After the show, we decided to try to grab a quick beer and chat about the show before hitting the road to Jamestown. I will never move to Cleveland. We spent a half hour or so trying to find a place to grab a beer, but all we saw was over crowded bars with lines up the waazoo out front and absolutly no parking. So we hit he 90 and turned our sights towards Jamestown. We arrived in Bemus Point at Christines Parents house about 3am and hit the sack.

I woke up about Noon, and went for a walk around the area, Christine parents live right on the water, so I walking along the road that rolls around the lake taking pictures, it was a beautiful day. I'll post some picture here, but I'm putting nearly all of them on Ofoto.com. You can see them here.

Well I'm beat, it was a great packed weekend, great times with good friends, a kick-ass concert, and great weather! now to post a few pictures.

Whatch out Cleveland!

In a coule hours Sean Christine and I will be on our way to Cleveland (Ohio) to see the Fantomas show!! I've been looking forward to this so much. Its been a little hard to tell eople about it, since not very many people at all have heard of the group Fantomas. I hope I get a chance to get Mike Pattons autograph, that would ROCK.

SafeServ Certification

Well today I was up at 6:30 am. No really, I was! I had to be at MCC by 7:30 to get to class. No really!
Today I spent eight hours in a room on my butt listening to someon gab and gab at me and other about food and stuff. Its for a certification called SafeServ, which is put together by the National Resturant Federation. The three top cooks at Bazils need the certification. At the end of this year every kitchen will require by state law that at least one person is certified with this program or one of the other two nationally recongized programs. Bazils also foot the bill for it as well which is really cool, saves me 150 bucks! The class was pretty neat, most of the information I already was familiar with from Bahama Breeze, but a few little things changed the at year or so. So if you have any questions pertaining to the proper cooking temperatures and holding temperatures for food to keep bacteria and patheogens out, just holler :)

Not much else new, this weekend I'm going to Cleveland for the Fantomas show, its going to be alot of fun I can't wait.

Adios amigos! Nap time, not used to being up so early!

This one is for you Dad, I could smell the wood walking up to it!
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This is a neat structure in front of the planetarium on East Ave.
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A neat church steeple on East Ave, I walked around while I was doing my laundry today and took several pictures. It was a good time. I played with in Black and White, as well as Septia and Color, this one was my favorite out of the three pictures of the steeple.
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Sean and I making some yummy Three-Ways!
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First day of the year with the top off! I grabbed my sandels, put on some shorts and went cruizin! It was so nice out, perfectly clear skies!
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Bought this new CD today, so far its really good. This is the band that Sean, Christine and I are going to see in Cleveland April 16th! Can't wait!
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Happy Birthday Sean!

hey this is going to be a quick post to say Happy Birthday to Sean. So ummmm... Happy Birthday Sean. Hope you have a nice day even though its pretty crappy outside.