Recipe of the Day

Make this:

Tex-Mex Summer Squash Casserole

and use this salsa in it. Make about quadruple the salsa recipe, because you will have to use more than the casserole recipe calls for, and you will definitely want some left over. If you follow this advice, I guarantee you won't regret it.


Billy Corgan's Zwan with "Baby Let's Rock," off of their 2003 album Mary Star of the Sea. Hadn't listened to this album in a long time, then decided to put it on the other day. I suggest you listen to it. If you do, like the recipe above, you won't regret it. 

Hot Tip of the Day

     When you set off a batch of hot resin to do, say, a glass roving leash loop on the tail of your new fish, for example, and you have all your stuff set out on the deck of your board (on wax paper so as to protect the surface), try to keep in mind, as you stand back thinking the job is done, that the container with the leftover resin is probably getting very hot, especially if you had too much resin in there in the first place, and that it would be a good idea to remove it from the surface of the board. If you don't keep this in mind, you will end up with a nice size crater on your board, complete with weakened glass and foam and a nice greenish-brown burn circle on you nice new board. Lesson learned. Oh well, at least it's on the deck, where there will probably be pressure dings anyway. If this was on the bottom I'd be really heartbroken.

P.S. I cannot recommend seeing Captain America, but I can recommend its unfaltering patriotism. U.S.A!

Ain't no cure...

The Outsiders playing their version of the classic "Summertime Blues." After that excellent wave forecast for Friday dropped off to the typical knee-high summertime fare in a matter of hours, I think I've got a serious case. We need real waves.

First Thing I Saw...

...when I got out of the shower this evening. It was during a pretty good thunderstorm, and if there's one thing that Henry is afraid of, it's thunder.

Poor guy. He could later be found cowering under my desk.

Stars and Stripes, FOREVER!

Happy 4th of July, everyone. Although a quick browse of the 4th of July wiki page will reveal that legally we became even from evil England on July 2nd, Congress took two days to debate and revise the Declaration, hence we now celebrate on the 4th. Back then Congress got things done quickly, as opposed to nowadays, when they can get nothing done at all. And I am allowed to complain about that and other shortcomings of the government without getting jailed or executed, and that's one of the things that makes the U.S.A. so beautiful.That, and we have some pretty good patriotic anthems.



and one that really gets my patriotic blood flowing...

I prefer the U.S. Marine Corp version of this song, the one with the mournful harmonica solo, but I chose this one because of the video poster's comments below the video. Just another thing that makes this country so great: some genius can spatter ignorant jingoist babble on YouTube, and that's alright, too! "MESS WITH US AND YOU WILL DIE LIKE THE REST" (!?!) Yikes, after reading that I don't know anymore. Oh well! Happy 4th!