Saturday, January 14, 2006
Chicken Wings and other Odds and Ends
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy in the real world and in the virtual one. I've just popped my dinner in the oven as I sit down to write this and I realize there is a small story here as well, especially since this is the third time this week I've made this dish for dinner and it triggers memories from childhood. When I was at the store last weekend I picked up a big bag of frozen chicken wing parts at a bargain price. Usually when I get chicken wings I get the barbecued kind that come pre-coated, pre-cooked, but this bag is just pain chicken wing parts uncooked.
Anyway I've found an excellent way to cook them quickly in my own barbecue sauce and I'm reliving memories of eating barbecue chicken wing parts from childhood. My dad worked as a chef and for his baked-half-chicken dish of some sort at the restaurant he would break off the last two parts of the wing leaving the just the wing drumlet behind. So about twice a month he would bring home a sack of chicken wing pieces (minus the drumlets) and we would cover them in barbecue sauce and bake till done. Dad may have been a chef, but at home cooking was simple and quick.
I've spent every night this week working on getting some video equipment upgraded for use at the Canopy Club. There's still a lot of work to do, but soon I expect to be blogging about the triumphant return of the D.O.D.J. (Dirty O'l D.J.).
I had been working on a new toy for BNL -- The REBUSizer. My previous toys have not exactly been a hit, but I think I've finally got a winner here. It is still pretty unpolished, but if there is much interest in it I'll do more work on improving it. It currently works well with nouns, but verbs and adverbs leave a lot to be desired.
BNL has been under an increasing assault by spam-bots so in addition to making the REBUSizer I undertook to redo some of the other toys to make them spam resistant. Meme-Watch and Shakespeare-O-Meter had a couple of minor bugs that got fixed as well.
I came across an ID (Intelligent Design) site while doing some Google.com searches and it triggered the writing of a 2000 word essay in DumbSwede's Journal on Slashdot.org. This is sort of the second essay in a row that bashes on Christians a little, but it really only applies to a certain type of rabid, right-wing-conservative Christian that likes to push his or her religion in your face unwelcome.
More importantly than all this however is the news that Nian has finished her portion of the K3 visa application forms to come here to America and be with her husband -- me! Even after I receive them (they're in the mail) and send them out with my portion of the forms, we will still have about three or four more steps to go before she can get on a plane to join me. Still it's a start.
Well my barbecue chicken wings are done and so is this catch-up post. I'll probably be still be licking sauce off my fingers until the next post.
