Category: O’Folks

• Bicycling across the Brooklyn Bridge

  October 7, 2012

  bicycling, daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, story time, travel, vacation

  Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the items on our Tourist To-Do List, but how to do it was up for grabs until the day we showed up at the South Street Seaport for a tour and spied Blazing Saddles, a vendor that rented bicycles by the hour. Each came equipped with a map… Read.

• A Slice of Brooklyn

  October 3, 2012

  daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants, travel, vacation

  If you’re ever out this way and you’ve always wanted to do a little sight-seeing in Brooklyn, a good way to do it would be to book a tour with A Slice of Brooklyn. Not only do they make sure you have a lot of fun, they feed you some pretty good pizza, too. We… Read.

• ramen in NYC

  October 2, 2012

  daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants, travel, vacation

  RAMEN! WE FOUND A RAMEN SHOP! JUST LIKE THE ONE IN MISAWA! Well, except that the guys in the kitchen didn’t all yell “Irasshaimase!” when we walked in the door. Oh, and they didn’t have ebi ramen on the menu. But still! Except for that, it could’ve almost been exactly the same place! Stepping through… Read.

• Lombardino’s

  September 20, 2012

  booze, food & drink, Guy Night, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  It’s guy night! Otherwise known as We’re going out to eat, honey! My Darling B usually has the car and picks me up from work, but tonight I had the car and picked B up, putting us both on the west side of town at exactly the time that both our tummies started growling in… Read.

• cheese farts

  September 18, 2012

  beer, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, office work, play, restaurants, work

  We both worked late last night, so we both liked the idea of quick and easy dinner, which lead us to Roman Candle for pizza. That’s it. Ate out again. Roman Candle. Pizza. That’s all I got. Not much else to tell. Oh, I was working late so I could move a bunch of files… Read.

• Monroe Waiting In Line Festival

  September 16, 2012

  beer, booze, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, music, My Darling B, O’Folks, O’Folks friends, play

  We paid a visit to the Monroe Cheese Fest yesterday, which, if they were honest, they would call the Monroe Standing In Lines Fest. Ten thousand people crowded the city square of Monroe, so there were lines for everything. There were even lines to get in lines. I’m not kidding. To buy cheese curds, or… Read.

• lair

  September 12, 2012

  Bonkers, books, daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, O’Folks, play, typewriters

  Can you find Bonkers the Cat in this photo of my basement lair? I bought a new camera a few weeks ago because I lost my old camera. Just lost it. I was taking photos while I was brewing beer or hammering on some wood or something, so between photos I put it somewhere very… Read.

• pizza fail

  September 9, 2012

  food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play

  My Darling B made pizza for dinner last night. She wanted it cooked on the grill. Since I am the grillmaster, it fell to me to figure out how to cook a pizza on the grill. This is the story of my PIZZA FAIL. Just to get this out of the way: Does anybody other… Read.

• epic journey!

  September 3, 2012

  bicycling, daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, travel

  I don’t know if you realize this, but a historic journey of heroic proportions was completed yesterday. I’m talking, of course, about the bike ride My Darling B took with me all the way around Lake Monona. This 12-mile trip is probably longer than she’s ever traveled on her bike in one day. I knew… Read.

• wink at the moon

  August 26, 2012

  daily drivel, hobby, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, space geekery

  I have a strange confession for a space geek to make: I have only the sketchiest idea where I was, and no memory of what I was doing, when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. I’m pretty sure I was in Marquette, Michigan when it happened, but I have no memory of… Read.