Carterpants

Uploaded a few recent pics from our OOTS night and from my BBQ making adventure. Check them out, do it now, I’m watching you….

In that album you probably saw this and asked yourself, “What the hell is all that?”

That my friends is two huge beef rump roasts that have been marinating in the fridge with two jars of my homemade BBQ sauce. I’m going to smoke this bad boys all day, low and slow that’s the tempo baby. Since there’s not much to do while smokin’, I’ll probably post boring and meaningless updates as I do so. Although I did pick up a new game this weekend… hmm. Decisions decisions.

Update: 1pm

Kicked some housework ass this weekend!

The garden is 90% complete, just need to fill it up with dirt and secure the fencing which should be done today! Only casualties were my drill (shredded the innards, trying a lawn drill in clay was a stupid idea..) and my arms which look like grated cheese thanks to the chicken wire. Jillian got a variety of flowers planted, and readied our seedlings for transport to the garden.

While I was working we had a nice arm roast smoking all day long. Made for excellent pulled beef sammies after a long day of work.

Believe it or not, I feel great today. After yesterday’s work I figured I’d be a lump of swollen man-pain, so either the Alleve worked wonders or I’m not as old as I thought

After a moderate sleep-in, I fried up some eggs and seared some minute steaks for a hearty brunch. Figured hey why not, haven’t made a real breakfast in a long time.

Spent the day running around Ankeny visiting various stores. Got some new work threads, pet stuff, gardening necessities, and picked up some essentials for Smokin’ Sunday tomorrow! Doing another arm roast with some pepper jack and muenster cheese, only this time I’m going half brick wood half chips in hopes of keeping the temp lower for a longer period of time.

Oh!! The new SSD and memory came for my midget laptop (as Jillian likes to call it) and what a difference they made. Fully updated Fedora install with Skype, TS, mIRC, and even fired up an Eclipse session, and it never bogged down once. I think I even have the mic issues sorted out, just needed a full update to get the correct ALAS package. Now to customize the O/S and make it ready to take over the world.

Not for much longer though, I have to work tonight.. bleh.

I’ve learned some tricks since last time and I’m ready to take another stab at mastering this smokin’ business. Today’s start time is 8:37am, aiming for a grill pull at 5pm, and a hot fresh shredded beef sammich in my face by 7:30pm.

Video – Smoke that meat! -

Grill is still a bit hot for the cheese, will have to wait on those for a bit

Update Pics

The Conficker virus (at least it’s latest incarnation) is believed to be set for an April 1st trigger, according to CNN. This was the virus IXWebHosting was jacked with last September/October and it was pretty nasty. I will be checking our site files the night before just in case, and if the site is down on April 1st it’s likely I found something

This rain better scamper off soon, I’m looking forward to a well deserved weekend of relaxation and maybe even another smokin’ Sunday!