Food, food, food!

There was so much food today, I can remember little else.

Being the first day technically unemployed, I really wanted to sleep in.  However, the dog kept me from doing such.  So after our morning walk I started my last load of laundry in the house.  I also plotted my courses for travel for the upcoming weekend, and confirmed I had all the paperwork I needed for transporting the car.

After that, I had an extended lunch with K-borg and D-Rock.  We opted for the sans website bar and grill Tin Cup, recently brought to fame by a well known Man vs. Food episode featuring a special challenge.  I have actually biked past it a lot going to work, but from the outside it only looks like a liquor store.  It really was pretty nice for a bar and grill on the inside.  We chose their cheese curds and boneless buffalo wings as appetizers and K-borg opted for the Lucifer burger while D-Rock and I each chose the Dirty Lucy.  The food was pretty good across the board.  K-borg and I decided early on that we were not prepared to take on their special challenge.  There's always a next time:)

Here are pictures of the food with a section of the menu...

K-borg had another obligation, but D-Rock wanted me to try the Perkins Chocolate Chipper for dessert.  He chose the french silk chocolate pie.  It was really good.  Here's a picture of that sweetness too...

D-Rock and I got to talking about his upcoming wedding which will be in Germany, not too terribly far from where my wife and I will be living.  They are experiencing very similar situations and issues that my wife and I had faced, so we naturally talked a long time about it.  They will be having a 4 day affair in Germany for their wedding.  It sounds like it is a crazy cultural experience.  I'll do my best set things up where my wife and I can make it to at least one of the days of festivities.

My parents came by and brought me dinner.  I ate while they started cleaning out the miscellaneous remaining garbage in my house and any items I did not intend to bring with me to Indiana.  They also made a list with my permission of items they could clear out of the house after I leave to decrease the amount of things I needed to do before departure.  It was actually very nice and thoughtful to have that support.  They also volunteered to bring a few large items to Indiana that did not get taken, namely my drum set that my wife's sister is interested in and a window air conditioner that my wife and I neglected to get back to her parents.  I thanked them for their help.  They will also swing by tomorrow for any last minute items.

On the Georgia Front, things got interesting.  She was on mock night patrol around 3am and got mock ambushed.  She suffered a mock injury to her right femoral artery.  Needless to say, she miraculously recovered :)  I did not hear or read what else she did during the day, but tomorrow an 8 mile march is scheduled.  They will certainly have other things in line, but I don't know what that will be.

Things are getting down to the wire!  I'll be leaving Minnesota in less than two days from now and will be gone for a long time!  Soon, I'll be trying my hand at tending a hobby farm in Indiana.  More on that later.  I'm starting to feel a little like a secret agent: moving around a lot, learning another language, following several paper trails, and learning a lot of new things in a very short amount of time all in the name of the government. I'm pretty much living a high school dream right now!