Giving Thanks For 2009

Giving Thanks For 2009

Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Turkey Tips Reflections on 2009 and Advice from Alton Brown Talking Turkey with Alton Brown OK, so now that we have that "lovey-dovey" stuff out of the way, let's talk turkey! My man Alton Brown was at Google this week to answer some Thanksgiving questions. If you want to watch the full hour-long video, you can do so here in HD. I liked the turkey frying section of the video (embedded above)...

Safeway Bring Your Child to Work Day 2009

I volunteered for Bring Your Child to Work Day this year and had fun watching the kids yesterday.  Ironically I think they taught me more than I taught them.  Our group had three volunteers for about 60 kids but they were surprisingly well behaved.  I had two bathroom runs, rescued a girl who lost her shoe in a race, and had to separate a battle for a wristband but we didn't lose anyone so I...

Wicked Show in San Fransisco

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we went to see Wicked on Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre.  The Safeway Employees' Association (SEA) was one of the group sponsors that night, so there were a bunch of people from Safeway.  Before the show, we went to Osha Thai for dinner, which was really nice.  We sat in the balcony, which ended up being great.  I never once thought we were sitting too far...

4th of July 2009

Went to the Danville, CA parade this morning and Tyler seemed to love it.  I hadn't been to a 4th of July parade in years so it was really fun to get in the mood for the fireworks in San Ramon.  It was a little warm for a few minutes but after 30 minutes the sun was blocked by a tree so it was perfect parade watching weather this morning.  We stayed all three hours...

Christmas Cookie Baking with Tyler

A Dad's Adventure in Holiday Baking At Teah's Christmas party last night she had all kinds of fancy foods and well I just ate the cookies, so after being inspired I decided to bake cookies with Tyler today. I know I haven't had a chance to test my cooking skills much, so I figured I might as well learn now without someone seeing my blunders while it is just me and Tyler in the kitchen....

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