Eat this McDonalds!

Date October 15, 2008

Alright, this wasn’t my planned post to return after a long break from blogging - but it’ll have to do.

So who likes the breakfast sandwichs at McDonalds? I know I do, but on a day off, I’m lucky to get out of the house before they switch over ot lunch, plus with a tightening economy it’s a little harder to justify the expenditure of getting them for the entire family.

So my wife came up with an alternative that is a great replacement and it’s pretty cheap too.

Get a bag of English Muffins and split ‘em up then butter them and slide them into a broiler to toast. But keep an eye on them - they’ll burn quick if you have it too hot.
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At Walmart they sell these bags of pre-cooked sausage patties, making it a pretty quick heat up on the griddle to get them ready - did I mention this is a quick meal too?

Beautiful Son - or why I cried last night

Date April 29, 2008

I was getting into bed last night and thought I’d turn on the TV to finish the night off. I was flipping around, when I caught a glimpse of a boy running around in the dark and banging his head on the wall.

It was a spooky to come into without any context, and I had to turn the channel.

But let me roll back the clock. I want to go back to when I was younger, probably in 8th or 9th grade maybe. I lived in Northern Virginia in a suburb of DC. Somehow (I’m sure my mom knows) I ended up doing some volunteer work at the local rec center.

It involved handicap children and swimming, my exact ward was a young boy with autism. I remember clearly, his tense body and jerky movements, like a flexed muscle of steel at all times. What amazed me then, and what I knew Don King was going to say when I went back to the channel and caught him and his son Beau swimming in the ocean, was that in water he was relaxed.