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GOOD MORNING…

Princess Crusies wished me a happy birthday.

So did Benihana.

Amanda and I decided to take them up on the offer.

My second drink, I should have had them pour it into my special cup, but it was blue. Amanda sure can pick out good drinks for me.

It is hard to take pictures of the food at Benihana, since the food kind of dribbles off the grill onto the plate. The soup was nice.

Hard to complain about ice cream.

Just sitting around listening to my favorite song.

Fucking around with the Facebook Timeline. Thought I would add a baby photo to me being born. Why should facebook get all the fun.

I had the lazy eye even back then. Surprised that my hat doesn’t say Suicidal Tendencies on it.

From the way back machine, I guess I thought I would have the kitchen done 3 years ago. Was wrong about that, but a lot of things have improved over here.

I am into the fact that I am sitting at the new counter that I built, it is a great place to sit in the morning and drink coffee and work on my blog.  It was so much fun to be able to be in the kitchen cooking while people were in the living room at the Pajama Jammy Jam, and we were still able to talk.  Thanks El Dorado, you are really behaving yourself.  Let’s see what you think of having lights and a new stove this year.  The new kitchen is on the agenda for January, I can’t wait to get this thing put in.

JetBlue would like me to have a happy birthday. You know what I don’t want to do on my birthday, go on a trip or two. Two trips in one day does not sound great.

I am not sure what happened, but I just noticed that the post about last year’s travel doesn’t have any of the summary data. It has now been updated, but in case you missed it, here is what last year looked like.

Flight Distances

Flight Time

Flights
In Miles   149,374
In Kilometer   240,394
Earth Circumnavigation 6.00 x
Distance to the Moon 0.625 x
Distance to the Sun 0.0016 x
Hours   357:45
Days 14.9
Weeks 2.1
Months 0.50
Years 0.041
All   90
Domestic 63
Intra-Continental 1
Intercontinental 13
Other flights 13

 

Longest Flight (distance): 7,502 mi, 13:45 h, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) – Los Angeles (International), 01-07-2011
Longest Flight (duration): 13:45 h, 7,502 mi, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) – Los Angeles (International), 01-07-2011
Shortest Flight (distance):  186 mi, 1:00 h, Geneva (Geneve-Cointrin) – Nizza (Nice) (Cote d’Azur), 07-12-2011
Shortest Flight (duration):  1:00 h, 186 mi, Geneva (Geneve-Cointrin) – Nizza (Nice) (Cote d’Azur), 07-12-2011
Fastest Flight:  627 mi/h, 732 mi, 1:10 h, Chicago (O’Hare) – New York (LaGuardia), 08-26-2011
Slowest Flight:  155 mi/h, 214 mi, 1:23 h, Savannah (Hilton Head International) – Atlanta (Hartsfield Jackson), 06-04-2011
Average Flight: 1,660 mi, 3:58 h

Howard Johnson, skipped right past my birthday, and is getting ready for MLK, you know, the fun vacation / travel day.

Puget Sound Blood Center wants me to give them something for my birthday. If you can, please donate blood. It isn’t hard, and you get to eat cookies guilt free.

I ended up giving away all my chips this morning at poker. It was fun playing next to Derek. We exchanged some recipes. That mother fuckers stuffed mushrooms are out of sight.

 

2012.01.03
Seattle, WA
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Little Pink Houses
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Bacon is a Calendar Girl

Bacon’s calendar debut has been released!

Bacon 2012 Calendar

Best Chapters: Bacon 2012 Calendar

2012 (plus January 2013) Calendar featuring the antics of our dog, Sophia Bacon Loren. 26 photos of one of the funniest dogs we know. She is a pit bull, she is going to be turning 2 in February 2012, and she is one of the best arguments AGAINST breed specific legislation.

Find out more on MagCloud

Here are some of the photos in the calendar.

2012.01.02

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Oh, won’t you take me home tonight…

Good Morning…

Nothing like the first sabering of the year.

Last year, I was in Australia on January 1. New Year’s Day in Summer. Kind of makes sense. Started off with an early morning boogie boarding trip.

Then I wore my pajamas on the airplane, free champagne. I did not try to saber it.

This year, I was home. With Amanda and Bacon.

DJ Waffles and his sidekick were there.

Derek escaped the mental institution and showed up.

Food glorious food.

ChexMix

Derek’s stuffed mushrooms did not last long enough for photos to be taken.

Happy New Year.

 

2012.01.01
Seattle, WA
Partly Sunny (47° f)
Little Pink Houses
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See You Next Year

Great way to start the morning… last dump run of 2011. It was a beautiful sunrise on the way to the dump.

Oh wait, I lied, I got a second dump run put together before the end of the year.

If you ever find yourself with 99 cents in your pocket, and needing breakfast, you better hope you are near Ikea.

Amanda and I decided to go out to a fancy New Year’s Eve dinner. Nothing was open on the way to Chad and Nikole’s house, so we ended up at Subway.

Stay classy 2011. I am going to just have one drink!

 

2011.12.31
Seattle, WA
Sunny (45° f)
Little Pink Houses
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It’s a long way…

I really did not think that I traveled that much in 2011. I feel like I got to spend a lot of fun times with friends, working on Little Pink Houses, bacon, and most importantly my wife! Looking at these stats, I started to remember going back and forth to Europe three times in three weeks, and the reasons why I got my iPad.

Flight Distances

Flight Time

Flights
In Miles 149,374
In Kilometer 240,394
Earth Circumnavigation 6.00 x
Distance to the Moon 0.625 x
Distance to the Sun 0.0016 x
Hours 357:45
Days 14.9
Weeks 2.1
Months 0.50
Years 0.041
All 90
Domestic 63
Intra-Continental 1
Intercontinental 13
Other flights 13

 

Longest Flight (distance): 7,502 mi, 13:45 h, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) – Los Angeles (International), 01-07-2011
Longest Flight (duration): 13:45 h, 7,502 mi, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) – Los Angeles (International), 01-07-2011
Shortest Flight (distance): 186 mi, 1:00 h, Geneva (Geneve-Cointrin) – Nizza (Nice) (Cote d’Azur), 07-12-2011
Shortest Flight (duration): 1:00 h, 186 mi, Geneva (Geneve-Cointrin) – Nizza (Nice) (Cote d’Azur), 07-12-2011
Fastest Flight: 627 mi/h, 732 mi, 1:10 h, Chicago (O’Hare) – New York (LaGuardia), 08-26-2011
Slowest Flight: 155 mi/h, 214 mi, 1:23 h, Savannah (Hilton Head International) – Atlanta (Hartsfield Jackson), 06-04-2011
Average Flight: 1,660 mi, 3:58 h

I flew all over this god damn crazy country of ours.

And like I said, went back and forth between here and Europe 3 times in 3 weeks, plus two others. Finally got to the Southern part of the Western Hemisphere. Or was it the Western part of the Southern Hemisphere.

Was out of town 177 days last year. Went to 80 cities, and spent over 10% of those days in Los Angeles / Long Beach / San Pedro. Other than at home, I don’t think there is anywhere I would rather be.

2011.12.30
Seattle, WA
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