The Zombieslayer

It’s been a busy few weeks.  I looked up my blog and found that there hasn’t been a post in 10 days so I better just write something so you know I haven’t disappeared again.

Hope all is well with you all.

By the way, am I getting older or does it seem like more and more people I know are getting cancer? It really is scary.  Getting it late in life is one thing, but it really disturbs me when people under 30 get cancer.

Anyways, there are only 2 things in life that truly suck - death of a loved one and bad health.  Almost everything is else tolerable.  Yes, no need to bring up poverty or homelessness.  I’m aware.  Been through both.  But nothing compares to death of a loved one or bad health.

If you and your loved ones are healthy, count your blessings.  Appreciate it while you can.  There’s an old saying that goes when a man is healthy, he wants a thousand things.  When he’s sick, he only wants one thing.

It’s a sad day for the Green Bay Packers and the NFL.  The NFL lost the best QB of the post-Niner domination era, and both the most exciting QB and the toughest to ever play the game.

Several people I know are going to call in sick.  I’m not going to.  I’m not going to sit around the house and sulk.  I got a lot of work to do at work and doing work will help me keep my mind off of it, but I’ll be avoiding people all day.

It won’t be easy for me to deal with this.  Funny thing is I’ve had some bad breakups, but this is worse.  I was convinced that he’d come back and I was saving up for a trip to Green Bay this year.

I decided instead to use that money for musical equipment.  I want to get a recording done while I’m still relatively young.

As for the Packers, I’m hoping the Cal kid Aaron Rodgers can pull it off.  As for Favre, I hope he enjoys his retirement, but I have a feeling he’ll be itching to play and might come back for another team in ‘09.  I sincerely hope he does, and that team will be instantly my 2nd favorite team.

It’s Friday night and I got a nice martini buzz going.  Junior’s spending the night at his friend’s house.  Mrs. Z is making dinner.

Besides getting a flea bite in the ankle (I swear I must have been a dog in a previous life because fleas like me almost as much as my dogs), it doesn’t get much better than this.  I don’t have any work this weekend and have nothing to do besides return library books.

I’m going to play guitar all weekend long.  I’ll be cutting some solos for a friend and need to brush up on my leads.  I’m currently saving up for some musical equipment because I want to get back into music again.

This weekend, I’m just going to walk.  I don’t care where.  I’m just walking.  I love that feeling of walking and having nowhere really to go.  Walking gives me time to just think.

Running sucks.  When you run, you’re thinking of running.  When you walk, you’re thinking about anything you want to think about.  I get some of my best ideas when walking.  I really should bring a camera though when I walk because there’s always a blog post staring at me whenever I don’t have my camera.

Dinner’s ready, folks.  Mrs. Z is calling me downstairs.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Tweety’s latest blanket

If you like handmade blankets, check out Tweety’s latest creation. It’s a nice shade of blue with a darker blue ripple and it’s 45×57 inches. Tweety’s made two of our blankets and her quality is superb.

Chocolate Rum Balls

Lime and I are going to trade personal recipes. Hers, she’s doing later this week but I’ll just do mine now, since I’m not in a mood to write something serious.

Every Christmas, I made chocolate rum candies. They’re yummy. You’ll need a double boiler to make these and three days time.

Ingredients

1 stick of butter

1 pound of powdered sugar

half-pound of walnuts

Rum or your favorite liquor

8 to 12 ounces of baking chocolate

1 stick of edible wax (paraffin wax, make sure it’s up to standards for cooking with)

Day one - break up the nuts, whip out a tupperware, and soak the nuts in rum overnight

Day two - melt the butter and combine butter with powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. Add the nut/liquor mix. Mix well. Put it in the fridge for an hour to cool it, but not too long or else it will be too cold to work with. Take it out and on a cookie sheet, roll the mixture into balls. When all the mixture are balls, put the cooking sheet into the fridge and leave it there overnight

Day Three - Take one stick of paraffin wax and melt it in a double boiler. I’m impatient so I cut the stick up or else it will take forever to melt. Add the chocolate. Stir it until it becomes a pretty, shiny chocolate mixture and it’s completely melted. They need to be blended together, no wax chunks.

When the chocolate is ready, dip the balls in the chocolate. When they’re all done, dip them for a second layer. Do at least two layers. I do three, because wasting fine chocolate is a sin against all that is good in the world.

When they cool off, they’re ready to eat.

Happy President’s Day

I’m not going to do anything today. I exercised yesterday, but today, I’m going to practice guitar all day long and I might take Mrs. Z out to a movie, or maybe just rent one.

Have a wonderful President’s Day! If you’re in another country and working today, well, don’t feel bad. Of the industrialized nations, us Americans barely get shit for holidays so we have to enjoy each one.

It’s Halloween, and I have the day off. I know people at work will be dressed up and will be allowed to have one hour of fun before getting all serious again. I was sure to rub it in that I’ll be sleeping in today and drinking all night tonight, then sleeping in again tomorrow while they’re working their asses out to get their code done by the next big release. Sucks to be them.

Tonight, dropping off Junior and he’ll be trick-or-treating with some of his friends. After we pick him up, Mrs. Z and I will hit a few bars, but she has to work the next day so we won’t stay out too late. We’ll be hooking up with friends, including several fellow pretentious critics.

As of now, just had breakfast. Time to hit some blogs. Happy Halloween!