A Productive Weekend
Sep 2nd, 2008 by Alex
For a holiday weekend, I’ve been really productive.
I started reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini on Friday night. I felt some “me time” would be a good thing; lately movies have been thing, but I’m always bitching about how I haven’t any time to read anymore. So I’m glad I made time to. It definitely isn’t light reading, but the story was compelling and the writing itself was good and I enjoyed it. So much that I couldn’t put it down, finishing around 2:30 Saturday morning.
I slept for 8 hours.
I cooked one pound of bacon, both in the oven and in the skillet. Haven’t never baked bacon before, I must say it was really easy. No mess or spattering fat, plus you can fit a lot of bacon on a cookie sheet. The house still smells fantastic. The skillet bacon will end up in turkey sandwiches this week for lunch. The baked bacon (that just sounds weird, “baked bacon”) was chopped up and was included in two mini-batches of mega tots (that is, mega fries but with tater tots instead of fries) destined for two different BBQ’s on Sunday.
I built a DVD rack out of spare lumber I had lying around. This makes more room on the bookshelf for books. This is a project I’d been meaning to tackle for some number of months, but never got around to. This morning I saw the stack of books at the top of the stairs that had been there collecting dust and said to myself, “that’s it!” An hour later, I had a new shelving unit. Anyone who has lived with me for any duration of time could attest to my affinity towards homemade wooden furniture. It may not be classy, but it’s functional. I like functional. I like working with my hands and it’s amazing what you can throw together in a short period of time.
Despite some thorough preparation, attempts to go to the firing range were shut down. It turns out that On Target is closed for remodeling as of August 25th. This is the second time in two weeks that I’ve been burned by not calling ahead to see if a place was open. Perhaps next weekend with work out instead.
I finally tried the Shish Kebab joint in Laurel. Simply amazing.
I caught up on all of my magazine subscriptions. Still need to get that copy of Radar over to L.
I napped. A lot.
I attempted a nice afternoon BBQ and got to see progress on a fellow blogger’s home. Also attended a housewarming and a birthday crab feast on the Magothy River.
I’m so glad that the weather held out.
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