Manly Foods Part 1

This post is the first in a multi part series dedicated to manly foods. Manly foods are foods that not only taste manly, but are also foods that every real man should know how to prepare. I'm going to start out with an easy one -- the soft boiled egg. The soft boiled egg starts out just like his more popular hard boiled brother. You boil water, gently drop an egg in the water, and wait. The difference is in how long you wait. For a soft boiled egg, set your timer for 4 minutes and remove from the water. You can run it under cold water to cool it a little, and gently crack the shell and peel. I recommend cutting the egg in a bowl or on a small plate, seasoning with salt and fresh cracked pepper, accompanied with buttered toast. If you are manly enough to own egg holders, you can place the egg in the holder and saw off the top with a butter knife (see picture). The taste is amazing, and is Cary Grant or James Bond manly. Try it once, you'll never go back.

Gollum

This was the picture of the girl we babysat when I left for school in the morning.
This is what she looked like when I came home from school later that day. It was then that I realized I had made the mistake of leaving my wedding ring on the table within her reach. I couldn't quite make out what she was saying, but it sounded a little like "my precioussss."

Tragedy

I just read about the Phillipines mudslide that basically wiped out a whole village. What a tragedy. It reminded me of when I first heard that Sri Lanka was one of the countries that was hit the hardest by the Tsunami. Although the Tsunami hit hardest on the opposite side of the country from where I lived, I lived only a couple hundred feed from the ocean and would have likely seen some of the destruction. They said on my side of the island the waves were 10 feet high and on the opposite side they were 15 to 20 feet high. Disasters like these are especially sad not only because the people are poor, but because their governments are poor and can't afford to provide much aid.

Nothing means something

The lesson is simply this: when Vallentines Day is approaching, and your wife, fiancee, girlfriend, etc. tells you not to get her anything, she really means that she wants you to get her something. I'm sure at this point you are all thinking I made this mistake yesterday and had to spend the night on the couch. If you are thinking this, you seriously underestimate my understanding of the fairer sex. Nothing to them means something. It means at the very least, you get her flowers, and it always means you get her a card. Anything beyond that is up to you depending on your financial circumstances. So next time you ask what she wants and she says nothing, remember this simple phrase: "nothing means something."

Disclaimer: My Vallentines Day gifts to Lindsay included 25 red roses, a funny card, a new Gillette razor (she gave me the new Fusion), and dinner at the Lonestar Steakhouse.

So mean, but so funny

For those of you who made it to the "4th level" of the maze game, I've got a nice treat for you. Check this video out. I swear, this is one of the funniest and meanest things you will ever see. If only Al Gore had invented the internet sooner, we could have done this to Troy instead of tricking him into drinking lemon juice and eating baking chocolate.

P.S. Make sure you have the sound turned on when you watch the video.

Maze Game

Check out the maze game at the bottom of my blog. The object is to navigate throught the maze without touching the walls. It's a lot harder than it looks! Post what level you made it to in my comments section. In case you are wondering, I made it to level 4, but it took a while. It's a lot harder to control with the touch pad on a laptop than it is with a mouse.

Let it snow...

This is kind of funny. I got a call this morning at about 7:45 a.m. informing me that due to the snow storm church was cancelled. The people here are so paranoid about snow that they sometimes cancel or postpone school (not mine) at the mere possibility of a snow storm. The picture above was taken about 30 minutes ago, and it has been snowing since yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. As you can see, it did snow quite a bit, but enough to cancel church? Hey -- I'm not complaining. Lindsay and I figure we got enough church this week because we went to the worldwide leadership training broadcast yesterday. It was like a short General Conference -- a few talks from GA's, a couple of stories from T.S. Monson, and a Relief Society talk I ignored.