Nov 2011
Taken A Class At The Circus Center
November 30, 2011 Filed in: Entertainment
Cooked Beef Kidney, Liver, And Heart
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
--James Joyce, Ulysses
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Learned CPR
Decorated A Christmas Tree By Myself
Eaten The Ahi Tuna Burger At Gott's Roadside
"If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different."
--Mark Mobius
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Taken An Ice Bath
November 25, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy."
--Anna Held
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Carved A Turkey
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
--Cicero
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Watched John Landis's 1978 Comedy National Lampoon's Animal House
November 23, 2011 Filed in: Movies
Done A Fireman's Carry
November 22, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
"Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?"
--David Hunt
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Baked A Pumpkin Pie
"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."
--Jim Davis
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Gone Indoor Skydiving
November 20, 2011 Filed in: Entertainment
Sat In A Construction Vehicle
November 19, 2011 Filed in: Entertainment
Done The 100 Up Technique
November 18, 2011 Filed in: Running
"We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.”
--Christopher McDougall
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Watched A Studio Screener
"The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by."
--Mrs. O'Brien (as played by Jessica Chastain)
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Picked A Lock
"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."
--Elayne Boosler
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Cooked Brussels Sprouts And Bacon
"We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.”
--Dave Barry
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Watched Billy Wilder's 1944 Noir Film "Double Indemnity"
Gone To The Wax Museum
November 13, 2011 Filed in: San Francisco | Tourist
"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
--Aristotle
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Drank Water Upside Down
November 12, 2011 Filed in: Life
“I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.”
--Bill Watterson
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Cured Bacon
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”
--Thomas Jefferson
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Made Star Wars Inspired Ice Cubes
November 10, 2011 Filed in: Entertainment
Made A Paper Automaton
November 09, 2011 Filed in: Crafts
"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."
--Vernon Howard
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Done A Maltese Bench Press
November 08, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
"Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again"
--Shannon Miller
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Watched John Ford's 1940 Drama "The Grapes Of Wrath"
"Sure don't look none too prosperous."
--Tom Joad as played by Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
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Hosted A Coffee Tasting
November 06, 2011 Filed in: Food
"I don't need you to tell me how f**king good my coffee is, okay? I'm the one who buys it. I know how good it is. When Bonnie goes shopping she buys S**T. I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it I want to taste it."
--Jimmie Dimmick as played by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction
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Eaten The Cellophane Noodles With Crab Meat At Slanted Door
"The bank wouldn't even give me a loan because they thought it was such a stupid idea."
--Charles Phan on starting the Slanted Door
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Eaten Lunch At Skywalker Ranch
"If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."
--Luke Skywalker as played by Mark Hamill in Star Wars: A New Hope
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Mixed A Martini
"I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul."
--Alec Waugh
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Done Grasshoppers And Parallette Passthroughs
November 01, 2011 Filed in: CrossFit
"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
--Shannon Miller
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