8-5-2011

Nicole and I go all of the places and do all of the stuff. So I get pretty excited when we get invited to go to a place I don't usually go to sit by the water, eat food, and party all night at a place I hadn't even heard of before.

P.s. I want a boat.

8-4-2011

I know I post a lot about my peppers, but it's because I'm really excited that they're actually growing. I've never successfully grown anything before, and they're a ton of work for something so little. In any case, my very first orange Thai pepper if finally all the way ripe, and there are already more on the way! Since this marks the birth of my first pepper baby, I thought the only appropriate thing to do would be to eat it...raw. The picture above pretty well summarizes the experience (other than the gallon of milk I drowned myself in immediately after the shot). Hot peppers are hot.

My Thai pepper was the only really ripe pepper so far, but since some of my habaneros had some weird looking spots on them and the internet told me that you can still eat them when they're green, I decided to make something. Nicole got fresh avocados and I chopped up my green habaneros, a bunch of garlic, onions, cilantro, and lime juice, and made fresh, unripe habanero guacamole. I actually "cooked" something! (even though all the ingredients were raw and there was no actual cooking involved)

8-3-2011

Minivans this outrageous can only be grown in the suburbs.

8-2-2011

I think sushi is one of the best looking foods. Also good looking is the first semi-orange (ripe) pepper on my plants. Hopefully more peppers will be ready to eat soon.

I really like taking pictures at concerts. I really don't like trying to organize them in some cohesive manner on my blog. So here are a bunch of miscellaneous pictures of one of my current favorite bands, Cold Cave, and the opening band Austra.

Austra
Austra
Austra
This girl's dance moves were my favorite.

Cold Cave
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
I think I was pretending I was shooting Ian Curtis
Cold Cave
Beep
Cold Cave
Cold Cave
The End. Bye.

8-1-2011

If you've been following my documentation of the lady bug life cycle on my pepper plants, this is the newest stage. The larvae have now turned into pupa, and will hangout for a while before hatching again as adults.

If you're not interested in insects, the only other interesting part of my day was hot sauce. Sorry, it's a Monday.

7-31-2011

I spent my whole day on this street, then ate pizza that comes with honey. My day was really a lot more eventful than my pictures look.

7-30-2011

We ran a race at the zoo. It was fast and really hot. I asked a cheetah to make me faster. After running, we walked even more in the even hotter and looked at animals. These are my favorites.

This giraffe likes to eat.
Nicole got to feed it a leaf.
She probably wishes she could feed this little cat a mouse.
This little cat probably wishes it could eat a baby.
This (kind of?) cat has a hamster wheel.
This is a rare and exotic bird.
I like turtles.
I have no idea what these two were doing though.
This one is old.
This is the vegetarian fish that learned how to eat people on Monster Quest.
That would be weird if butterflies learned to eat people.
This one is looking at you.
This guy reminds me of Sea World.
This bear shakes like a dog.
This bear cub has a bath tub (that rhymes).
The bear cubs were my favorite thing at the zoo.
It's pretty rare to see this bear with its eyes open.
We made commercials for these guys at work.
Bye.

7-29-2011

I'm moving. Unfortunately, I'm not taking my talents to South Beach, but rather moving around the corner and down the hall to a new office with a window for my toys to look out of! I even have a giant piece of paper for a coloring wall (even though I'm too intimidated to draw anything on it yet). This is all very exciting for me, which I'm sure you know if you read about my closet office (which is now going to be returned to its intended use of storage) last week. So after almost three years in my little orange closet (1-4-10), this is where I'll be every weekday for the next who knows how long. I'm going to go look outside now. Bye.

7-28-2011

Nicole likes berries like I like tacos. These all grew in our yard this year. This red one came from a plant my friend Victor gave us when we first got the house, and we've managed not to kill it after all these years (the plant not the house). The black ones randomly started growing in our yard this year and are now declared as protected nature preserve from the lawn mower.

7-27-2011

Ok, so I realize I've been posting a lot of pictures of creepy little bugs, but my pepper plants just introduce me to a lot of weird looking stuff that I think is interesting. And really, this isn't that weird. Remember all those lady bugs doin' it on my plants on 6-22-11? Well I guess it worked, because their eggs hatched, and now I have lady bug larvae on my plants! This is a good thing because they eat tons of aphids (aphids are bad for my peppers). I think it's cool watching entire life cycles happen on the leaves of my plants over time. After larvae hatch from eggs, they'll run around and eat a ton of aphids, then make a little pupa shell. Then the pupa hatches as a full adult lady bug to start the cycle all over again.

7-26-2011

With all the running and trying to be healthy that we've been doing, it seems like forever since I drank super fancy grandpa scotch. Meeting up with a friend is always a great excuse to visit a new place that I've been meaning to check out. Especially since said place happens to have a whole wall of whisky. This is exciting. Also exciting was finding crazy orb-weaver spider webs. The one above is pretty perfect compared to this crazy one. Maybe this spider catches more bugs, but it probably just drank too much scotch before making its web.

These new glowing shoes will undoubtedly make Nicole faster...which will help this weekend.

7-25-2011

So yeah, I post a lot of pictures of food. What can I say? I tend to take pictures of things that I like, and there aren't many things that I like doing more than eating. Besides, these are kind of special. They're truffled fried yucca from a (not bougie) chain restaurant. That makes them special because 1) I'm hoping that truffle oil is going to become a trend ingredient in lots of places everywhere, and 2) this is preparation for the real truffle I'm planning on eating on vacation! It's still forever away, but I'm already getting really ready to go go go.

7-24-2011

Look, I have a new girlfriend with black hair. We tried to go walk in a park we've never been to before, but she got attacked by bugs and ran away. Otherwise, I've been doing a really poor job of taking pictures of the stuff we do. I did attempt to buy more running stuff, but got scared of these diesel mannequins and ran away. We do other stuff too, but recently we've been mostly just been doing a lot of running. I don't take pictures of running. I do however take pictures of indulgent, post-run Cheeseburger Tour at B Spot. I don't think anything in the world ever taste better than heart attack food immediately after running six miles. Heart attack food includes onion rings fried in lard with some of the best sauce ever. It also includes White Russian Rootbeer Floats (with snaky rings) named after Coen brothers' movies.

7-23-2011

We went a lot of places and did a lot of stuff today. I just shot a few things that I though should be black and white.