June 21st, 2010
Or, as the early 90s cafeteria staff called it… “Fries all the way”.
I just read a Houston Press Eating our Words blog post about the Tex-Cajun poutine at BB’s in Montrose. I haven’t had a chance to get over there for some food, but it’s on my list of places I want to go sometime soon. This dish reminded me again of the indomitable SUB cafeteria favorite from high school, the “all the way”.
You could get this as Chicken Fried “Steak”, burrito or fries. As you might assume, it consisted of a bed of french fries, with the entree of choice on top, open face if the steak. Cover that in a handful of school issue orange cheese & thoroughly drench in what was probably a mix of enchilada & brown gravies.
Now, I’m sure that the school & their nutritional guidelines/regulations have rendered it an ancient being. Especially since I know my brother who graduated 3-4 years ago had no idea what it was.
Those students from Alvin High around the early 90s would recall this interesting culinary science experiment.
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April 20th, 2010
I haven’t posted on here in ages. We’re planning a road trip for Friday to go see one of the wife’s friends in Georgia. We’re keeping it as cheap as we can. I’m taking pimento cheese, munchos and a cooler level cheap.
Thankfully, we both have MP3 players we can load up with all kinds of good music & podcasts. Here’s the Podcasts I’m definitely loading up for the trip:
I’m also auditioning others on my commute this week to see what might be do-able.
I doubt there’s any interest, but I might do some from the road posting just to see how that works.
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March 28th, 2009
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March 17th, 2009
Just a quick check-in for a blog weigh in. As of this morning, I weighed 257.6, down by about 5 lbs in the last 4 weeks since we’ve been going to the YMCA.
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February 28th, 2009
We’ve been going to the YMCA for 2 weeks now, and I’ve done the full week’s worth of the Podrunner Intervals trying to work up to running a full 5K. Over the last 2 runs on the treadmill, I’ve done 1.8 miles each time, and also found that my wireless HRM that I got from woot.com works with the equipment there. It makes it much easier to have the machine automatically read my heart rate than grabbing those akwardly placed sensors. Entering my age & weight on the machines is also a nice feature, since I think it adjusts the # calories burned for those factors.
Here’s a graph from fitday.com of my weight between 11/24 and today. I didn’t enter all the data points, just some along the way. I’m going to try to remember to update that site often, as this is a good tool. I’ve decided that I’d like to try to set a goal for my 33rd birthday in August. I’m shooting to be down to 225 by then. That may be really pushing it, but I think I can get close with better eating and continuing the workouts.
Weight Graph
Big props to NCN and his nocaloriesneeded.com blog for the link to fitday.com.
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February 20th, 2009
The wife & I jumped into the workout pool deep end this week, joining the YMCA on Monday. So far, it’s been good, got to do a little on the treadmill Monday night, and did about 35 minutes on elliptical machine on Wednesday. I’m still a little sore from that, but I’m looking forward to going back tonight after work.
Having onsite child watch is a great thing, and that’s what really allows us to do this. The site isn’t too convenient, but it’s not bad either. It’s about 20 minutes from the house, but as long as I leave work at 5, we can get there before 7. Since the child watch ends early on Fridays (tonight), Becky’s going straight there from work, and I’ll be meeting her there.
I haven’t seen a big weight loss yet, but again, we’re just in the first week. I did find an interesting music mix/interval trainer that I’m going to try out. It’s called Podrunner:Intervals, and I’m trying the “First Day to 5K” mixes. You can find them at http://www.djsteveboy.com/intervals.html.
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January 26th, 2009
Today is my little girl’s last day as a 2 year old, her birthday is tomorrow. My wife and I reflected briefly last night on what it was like in the hospital during that time. Becky was admitted Wednesday morning to be induced, and after little progress over the first day, they took her off the petosin and let her rest that night. Thursday came early with a restart on the petosin around 5am, and it continued until midday Friday. It finally stopped after her OB decided that it had been long enough and that the progress so far wasn’t acceptable, and they’d have to go C-section. Of course, over that day and a half, there were failed epidurals, oxygen masks, focal points and thoughts of that special spot in the river. Words on a silly website aren’t enough to share how much Becky & Audrey mean to me.
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January 20th, 2009
I enrolled in class out at the local college for the Spring in order to start working on my education again. I’ve enrolled in English 1302, which may not be too smart, considering I took 1301 in the Spring of 95. I also am taking Finite Math, which seems like math for business (so far it’s been like interest calculations and APY and such).
I feel a little out of place, since back when I took night classes in the late 90s, they were mostly older folks with a few of us young’uns. Now, it seems like the classes are 90% young students, with a few older. I’m probably the only person over 30 in my math class.
This is all starting the momentum to complete my Bachelor degree in something. I’ve looked over what the University Center at the local college offers, and I’m leaning toward a CIS degree offered by UH Downtown (or whatever their new name will be). It seems to fit well with my existing career path, and will hopefully allow me to work into a better position no matter who I’m working for in the future.
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January 19th, 2009
Lance isn’t a very common name, there was only one other Lance in my graduating class of over 500 people. I’d guess for the normal every day Lance, a nickname of biglance isn’t that likely. It’s interesting to occasionally google “biglance” and see what I come up with. Sometimes, it’s me, others it’s not.
For instance:
http://twitter.com/biglance – me
http://www.biglance.us/ – me (this site – 2nd page, boo)
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/BigLance/ - NOT me (no offense, but he doesn’t look that big)
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2008/626/hhh_328632.shtml – NOT me, but seems more likely than the guy above to be a “BigLance”
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November 19th, 2008
Run of play:
If someone is booked take a drink.
If they are sent off, then finish your drink (alternative – shot of schnapps/Jager).
If a penalty is awarded, take a drink.
Everyone must finish thier drinks at half time (and at end of regular if it goes to OT/Penalties) and no further drinking during the intermission.
If someone hits the crossbar or the post, take a drink
Whenever there is a goal, you have to finish what your drinking
Extras:
If the camera cuts to the tense Crew/NYRB supporters in the closing minutes, takes a drink.
Supporters light a smoke bomb or flare, take a drink.
The smoke bomb/flare is thrown on the pitch, finish your drink.
Every time the words “destiny”, “cinderella”, “gladiator” are used, take a drink.
Parts taken from the Ray Hudson La Liga drinking game and the CL Drinking Game
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