Weekend's done.

I started Saturday by having breakfast with a few guys from church. It was a welcome change from my usual breakfast of oatmeal and orange juice. I went all out and had "Momma's Pancake Breakfast": 3 pancakes, 3 scrambled eggs, 4 slices of bacon and of course, orange juice. That filled me up.

Went on over to the spray car wash to see if I could get by without having to scrub my car clean with a full-on get the bucket and all the car washing crap out type of deal. It worked! I was really surprised at how well the so-called "spot free" rinse worked when I skipped the hand drying stuff.

With that out of the way, I went to work at home fixing this 40" X 60" light reflector thing I broke earlier this week. This is one of those things I actually wore protective glasses and gloves for. This reflector is held open by a 1/2" wide steel hoop that's about a 1/8" thick. Due to stupidity on my part which I won't go into, I broke it. Now I had 2 ends of the band protruding through the stretchy fabric that would normally cover it. Nice. The only way to fix it would be to drill 2 holes in each end and use screws to fasten them together. This is where the glasses and gloves come into play. After a bunch of pulling, squeezing, drilling, bad language, sweat and pinched skin - I got it fixed. I do NOT want to have to do that again.

Ate at JW Steakhouse that night. Looks like things have improved since my last visit, but my food still left something to be desired. My steak was too salty. I guess it was either the marinade was too salty, it was marinated too long, or both. My baked potato was good though.

Kyle headed on over to Applebee's for dessert (yes, our lives here typically involve action around mealtime) while I swung by my house for a minute. I get a text message from Kyle that "S and M want us to take them out tonight". I knew who "S" was, but I wasn't sure who "M" was. By the time I arrived on scene, Kyle was irritated and S & M were heading to a local bar (one I would not be interested in going to) with some other dude. That was just as well though since they were just needing someone to buy their drinks for the night. Anyway, hung out there for awhile before calling it a night.

Today after church and lunch I decided to get out and do a little shopping instead of taking my usual Sunday afternoon nap. I needed a casual winter coat to wear for when it's wet and yucky out. I've got all the other bases covered with one of my other 12 coats/jackets/fleeces (heh). Drove to Huntsville's Jones Valley and hit up Alabama Outdoors where I found a nice Marmot fleece/shell combination I liked. It was on sale too so that made it even nicer. It's one of those 2 piece deals where you can wear each piece by itself (the shell or the fleece liner) or zip them together for nice heavy protection from the elements. I drove around the area looking for photo spots as there are several hills in the vicinity that were thick with colorful trees. Even though I had my camera with me, the light just wasn't right so I didn't bother getting it out. Went over to Parkway Place to look for jeans and some shoes but had no luck.

Back at home, I thawed a bunch of king crab legs out then went over to Kevin and Stacey's where in total we steamed 4 lbs. of legs and 2 lobster tails. There were some other, smaller lobster tails but those tasted ULTRA bland. Yech. I went to eat my tail after steaming it and found it not yet done. Great. Instead of fooling with more steaming, I got out a pan and some olive oil and sauteed both tails. That did the trick.

What a good weekend.