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Props to My Coffee House
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

I happened to be at Cafe Connections in Newark, OH, when a Newark Advocate reporter was interviewing the owners. The article appeared in Friday’s Advocate. The article focuses on the cafe’s military wall, which does have a nice collection of patches, newspaper articles, and such.
If you bring your own computer, the wireless internet [...]

HAL Annual Chili Cookoff
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Today Halliburton had their Annual Chili Cookoff (last year’s pictures).
The chili entries weren’t as good this year, but our department’s mild version was still pretty good. We had competitions for “hot” and “mild.” A lot of the hot receipes had too much habanero in them. I can handle heat, but habanero makes chili taste weird. [...]

The first of potentially several successive Sundays at home, we spent the morning at Our Savior in Newark.
The service appeared to be LW Matins, but it written in the bulletin without music. I might have to inquire about that. Matins is pretty stuff. The pastor used his sermon time to emphasize some of the projects [...]

Crawfish Boil
Thursday, May 4th, 2006

The Bossier City field camp held a crawfish boil to celebrate a certain time without a “lost time” accident.
I had been to a crawfish boil at someone’s house before, but this one was catered, and the crawfish were a little bigger than I remembered. Most were probably about 5 inches in average length [...]

The Keller in Kastle, Oklahoma City
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Last night I visited The Keller in Kastle, a wonderful German restaurant in Oklahoma City that I had not been to in years. What I had not remembered was that they were open only Thursday through Saturday. What I had not known at all was that they had been closed since New Years Eve for [...]