My stepfather Ron made the most amazing chicken fajitas while we were in Portland. I simply had to get the recipe. He said he found it on the Internet. I'm not sure where, though, so here it is, on the Internet again:
Chicken Fajita Marinade
- 1/4 cup beer
- 1/3 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- salt to taste
To prepare the marinade, stir together beer, lime juice, olive oil, garlic, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, cilantro, cumin, and salt. Mix well.
To use marinade, pour into a resealable plastic bag, add up to 1 1/2 pounds of chicken breast, and mix until chicken is well coated. Marinate for 1 to 3 hours in the refrigerator.
I'm thinking about extending our stay here in Oregon. My grandfather just had a mild stroke a couple of days ago, but he refuses to acknowledge it or make any kind of a deal out of it. He won't even admit it to most of the family, but the word has already spread. Yesterday was my cousin Megan's wedding, down in Coburg. It was really nice. My uncle, The Captain Reverend T (don't ask), officiated.
As long as nothing pressing comes up at the office, I should be able to either just take the time off or at least work remotely.
- It's great to see how my #MUD project's loading and saving functions are getting smaller with the change to YAML. #
- Added languages and fluency to my #MUD project's Sentient class. YAML conversion is done for that class now, too. #
- Off to the in-laws' B&B for dinner. #
- Up at 5am. Sleep is overrated. Finishing up some laundry, going to clean out the car, then pack for the Portland trip. #
- Car is clean, laundry is on final approach. Still need to pack. But for now, BREAKFAST! #
- They stripped my oil plug taking it off. Waiting for a new one so I can get on the road. #
- New plug was delivered by a beautiful woman. Would that all my car repairs worked that way... #
- Just waiting for Lorien to finish her errand and grab a bite to eat. This is the danger time, we arrive in Portland during rush hour #
- At Charburger in Hood River, getting some awesome onion rings #
- Hanging at mom's house on Mt Scott in Portland, watching TV #
- Mom's leaving on a camping trip until Thursday. Just when we get here... #
- Relaxing at mom's in Portland. Working on I/O and YAML in my #mud project #
- The #mud is compiling and linking again! I now have to bootstrap some room save files so I can do some testing. #
- Just left a brand new Cadillac at the Portland airport unlocked with the keys in it. How awesome us that? #
- Writing connection-handling classes for my #mud to ease state changing between login, password, create new player, etc. #
- Handlers written for states: closed, login, password, and active. Just have create state left for tomorrow...er, later today #
- Thanks everyone for not boosting the brand new unlocked Cadillac I left at the Portland airport last night. #
- New YAML #mud code is working, but has a few bugs still. Working on a loading issue now. #
- Waiting for Lorien at the library next to Clackamas Town Center #
- Got back to Mom's just in time to help sister Jodie unload her car #
- Room loading code is the #mud is workin perfectly thanks to the yaml-cpp library. Looking at player loading code now. #
- The entire #mud is working perfectly again. Today is another Milestone day! #
- Not sure if I want to work on the #mud anymore tonight. Made SO much progress today, it was awesome. #
- Midnight is the new 1am #
- Working on some object code while waiting for my niece Scarlet to wake up. We're going to the IKEA store #
- At the IKEA store in Portland. There's some cheap stuff here! #
- Just got back from Wunderland next to Dark Horse Comics in Milwaukie. It was ticketastic! #
- Up early because...well, I just can't sleep anymore. It's a cool Portland morning #
- The object loading code has been fixed. In some cases a NULL object could be returned instead of an object in memory. #
- Just got a free oscilloscope from my step-father. Awesome! Plus a box full of surge protectors. #
- Lunch at Otto's Sausage Kitchen. It is awesome #
- Can't find the charger cable for my camcorder. Must have left it at home
# - Did almost no work on the #mud today except for early this morning. Everything is running awesome now #
- Drove to downtown Portland right off the MLK Blvd to visit at Jodie's. And to go to the Letterpress Fair. #
I've had a lot of time here in Portland, especially in the mornings when nobody else is up, to work on my MUD project. I converted it to use YAML to load and save everything, and the issue that caused me to have to choose a structured language, the inability to show relationships between deeply nested containers is now fixed. I also rewrote the login process to use dynamic handlers depending on the login state you're in (thanks Jeff!).
I know I'm on the right track, because in nearly every case, the code changes were smaller than the original code. So far, that's always been a good sign for me.
The best part is now I have loadable and saveable objects all working, and I can continue to build the rest of the functionality to complete the MUD and make it playable. Thank goodness for lazy vacations!
We had visitors this morning:
Today I had the opportunity to do something for the first time: I left a new Cadillac at the Portland airport unlocked with the keys inside. I also forgot to take my driver's license with me. The car had 1980 miles on it. No plates. I was really hoping I wouldn't get pulled over, my answers would have been pretty suspicious…
We're off to Portland today for the next week! We have a few errands to run around town, and probably won't get on the road until after noon, but that works out well anyway—we'll miss the rush-2.5 hours around I84 and the 205.
- I just followed @DellDigitalLife for a chance to win one of 10 Dell Mini netbooks! More info at: http://bit.ly/DellTwitter #
- Hey @DellDigitalLife the answer is 7. Find more answers here: http://bit.ly/DellMini #
- I'm such a sucker for free swag... #
- Trying to get back in to the work groove. It's hard. I felt like I was here all weekend... #
- Hungry...Shouldn't have skipped breakfast. #
- Nearly made a coworker spew soda from the nose. Almost epic. #
- Wow the office is just getting hotter and hotter today. A/C FAIL. #
- Added 3rd LCD to my desk. Now have two 20" on my primary Linux box, and a 22" LCD on my Windows laptop. #
- Boss's computer went tango uniform. Think it's a heat issue. Looking at it now... #
- I'm officially being cooked inside my skin now. Way too hot in here. #
- Boss's hard drive has a broken SATA connector. Tab broke off in the cable. This is so not safe, but it's working again...for now. #
- I wish my iPhone would die in a fire and I could justify getting a Google OS phone. Oh wait, I didn't pay for my iPhone anyway... #
- Not paying is the entire reason I have an iPhone today. #
- The only loss would be the #munchkin app, I could live without the rest! #
- Both of my sisters are on their way up to North Idaho from Portland. They'll be here in about an hour. #
- Had ice cream before dinner. Being childless adults is fun! #
- Hey @DellDigitalLife the answer is 2.72 lbs. Find more answers here: http://bit.ly/DellMini #
- Working on updating some custom software on our server. #
- Parts of the office are at 84 degrees right now. Unbearable. At least my office is a little cooler #
- Time to brave the storm and head home... #
- Well no storm outside at all, but it sure smells like one #
- National Weather Service cancelled the severe storm warning #
- Hey @DellDigitalLife the answer is nine. Find more answers here: http://bit.ly/DellMini #
- Stopped listening to #podshock when this SUPER annoying voice came on. Rest of episode is in the garbage. DO NOT WANT. #
- Annoying voice from #podshock was also on HHG to British SciFi. Plus, white people aren't the only racists, guys. #
- Latest Podcastle podcast had torturous Chinese pronunciation. I had to stop listening. Today's just not a good podcast day! #
- Meh. Day's over. Going home. At least I accomplished a lot today... #
- Waiting for one more answer to a question about the yaml-cpp library (re: emitting a NULL value in place of scalar/sequence/etc) #
- Holy cow Alastair Fraser is playing at Art on the Green this weekend! (he's a Scottish fiddler) #
- My YAML question was another shortcoming in the library
Null element parsing still in the works. At least I can get started with my stuff # - Wrapping up some YAML code (exception handling). My sisters (Jodie and Betsy) were both here tonight. We played Boom Blox Bash Party! #
- Hey @DellDigitalLife the answer is 10.1". Find more answers here: http://bit.ly/DellMini #
- Weekly development team meeting is over. It was shorter today! #
- Off to the pharmacy. Yay. #
- Long day. Hot. Much work. Grumble grumble more diet pepsi grumble grumble. #
- My iPhone is being retarded again. Won't delete a podcast no matter what I do. #
- Ooh cool air coming in the vent! I hope the A/C is coming back online... #
- Rebooting the iPhone fixed the problem. Reminds me of Windows. Never had to reboot my Motorola... #
- Best part is Apple fanboys will tell me "it shouldn't do that, it's faulty and you should return it" blah blah whatever. #
- Software has bugs. Apple software has bugs too. Get over yourselves. #
- Just won two consecutive #munchkin Booty games. Woohoo! #
- Today is System Administrator Day. Commence delivering gifts or the Internet will stop. #
- Hey @DellDigitalLife the answer is Ubuntu Linux. Find more answers here: http://bit.ly/DellMini #
- Mmm, Yellow Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. With REAL BACON inside. Seriously. The bacon makes it better! #
- Some day I'm going to attend @_defcon_ but it's in Las Vegas--in the middle of summer! I'd melt! #
- Off to listen to Alastair Fraser at Art on the Green. #
- No Alastair Fraser. It was just "his fiddlers." terribly hot outside #
- Awake early on a Saturday. What an unfortunate circumstance. #
- Didn't get invited to my nephew's birthday party today. It starts in 10 minutes. Dad called and asked if I was going, first time I heard it! #
- Just finished cleaning up the fish tank. Fish are now grumpy. #
- Also doing laundry, getting ready for a week-long trip to Portland OR #
- Got my #mud project's ObjectFactory class working again. It's now using YAML via the yaml-cpp library! #
- Remote rebooting a server that has been up for 493 days. *sigh* I hate losing good uptimes. #
- Just mixed up a loaf of sourdough bread. Using my fallback recipe because it always comes out good. Takes 24 hours to rise, though. #
- If I get sick from the chocolate bubble gum shake I'll never hear the end of it from my wife... #
- Done coding for today. Well, I'm done sitting in this chair anyway. Lots of YAML code written. Will be a while before I can start testing it #
- Oh man. EVERYTHING tastes like bubble gum. I hope I didn't break my taste buds with that chocolate bubble gum shake... #
Tonight my brother Wes came over and we made…Chocoloate Bubble Gum Shakes. Just like GIR had in Invader Zim's NanoZim episode.
GIR's Chocolate Bubble Gum Shake
An original recipe by Jacob (ScurvyJake) Cord
Ingredients:
- bubble gum
- fudgesicles—optionally, you can remove the plastic and wood sticks. Leave in for extra manly flavor
- ice cream
- milk. Preferrably from a cow
Put the gum in the freezer for a few minutes, it blends better when it's cold. Add a few scoops of ice cream, a couple of fudgesicles, and some milk. Unwrap the bubble gum if you're feeling industrious. If you're lazy, just throw it in, the paper won't kill you. If you have an awesome BlendTec blender like I do, crank it up and watch it go. If you don't, you may want to reconsider making this recipe. It might hurt your blender. Pour in to glasses and start chewing. Imagine how much more awesome you are than everyone else that hasn't had one of these shakes.
Here are some images of the process:
And the final result. Click on this one for a larger image.
Disclaimer: I will not be responsible for killing your crappy blender with this recipe, any intestinal splinters you may get from un-liquefied fudgesicle sticks, or inadvertent intestinal blockage. Besides, this shake is made of awesome.
I strongly suggest you get one of these Blendtec blenders, they come in several colors! (I like the red one).
As recommended by @Blendtec on Twitter, I'm entering this recipe in the So You Think You Can Blend contest!
Today I'm doing a bunch of things around the house so we can leave for Portland on Monday. We'll be staying for a whole week! My cousin is getting married next Saturday in Coburg. We'll also take an afternoon to visit my grandparents near Eugene. Maybe even take a trip to the coast!
I should also have some time to continue working on my MUD project. I haven't had much time this week. Now that most of the issues I've had with the yaml-cpp library have been worked out I'm able to begin working on conversion to the YAML format.