Yesterday I got my Christmas present.  My parents decided to give it to me early.  Acctually I helped them buy it.  I got a 45-bottle wine cooler.  It’s sweet.  Now I finally can store all those bottles of wine I’ve been collecting and hopefully I’ll drink a few, since some of them are up to 2 years old.

I made a tiramisu today.  Somehow it felt like a perfect desert for snowy weather.

I got to do a quick trip to Florida this year.  As part of the project I was working on, we get to do various program reviews, and this was the final one.  We ended up going to Marco Island which is on the Gulf side of Florida and it’s extremely nice and relaxing.  We stayed at Marco Beach Resort, which was uber fancy, with bell boys, valets and so forth.  They even leave chocolates on your pillow when they make your bed, SWEET.  I spent most of the time in meetings, but we did get long lunches so I had some time to go out and explore.  Unfortunately I had my final for “Introduction to Plasma Physics” on Wednesday and since I was coming into Seattle on Tuesday at midnight, it meant I had to do all the studying in Florida.  I took the test today and I think it went fine.  Pics from Florida are on the photo page as well.

For now I just want to leave you with a view that greeted me as I walked into my hotel room:

With all the AC/DC excitement I forgot to write about my pizza party.  All in all I thought it went pretty well.  There were like 10 dancers there and they all seemed to like my cooking.  I made 2 big bowls of salad, 5-6 pizzas and a whole bunch of crepes.  After all the food we ended up watching bunch of pictures, not just from this show, but from years past as well.  I think I should do this type of stuff more often, since it was really fun.

p.s.
The file server is up and running and all my computers backup to it now.  Plus it allows me to have all my media streamed to any place in my house.

Well I finally got to do one of those absolute musts when it comes to music.  AC/DC concert was AWESOME.  I mean you really got to go see somebody like them to get so many hits in one place and such production on stage.  They played every song you’d think possible “Highway to Hell”, “Shoot to Thrill”, “Hells Bells”, “Thunderstruck”, “Back in Black”, “TNT”, “For Those About to Rock”, etc.  It was jam packed with songs I knew all the lyrics to and the amount of energy on stage was incredible.  They had everything from flame throwers, a freaking life-size train, cannons, fireworks etc.  Even a big-boobed lady ridding the train half way through the show as shown in the photo below (excuse the quality it’s an iPhone)

Then towards end of the show Angus Young came out to the middle of the crowd and rocked out for about 5 minutes.  He can definitely still shred that guitar.  Our seats were perfect for watching this, and by seats I mean seats.  For some reason general admission was not your standard, have everyone stand and cram zone.  It was kind of nice, but I know we could’ve gotten closer if there was no chairs.  Here is a pic of Angus tearing it up:

After the show I was completely deaf.  I ended up getting lucky and catching a quick light rail from the Dome to the parking garage.  Here is few more shots of the concert:

I hope that everyone’s Thanksgiving went good.  I made hell of a turkey :).  It spent approximately 30 hours brining and after I baked it was sooooo juicy.  My parents were over and they brought some deserts and salads.  I provided the turkey, of course, bread, another of course, and my famous potato “al gratin”.  After all this I took my sister to the ferry so she can go to her boyfriend’s Thanksgiving party and I went with D-Dog, Rex and Shannon to a movie.

Tomorrow I will spend most of the day trying to finish my AA homework, since I’d like to have it done by Monday.  I also need to work on some pizza dough since I’m throwing this pizza party for the dancer ladies on Saturday.  For best results the pizza dough needs to rise slowly overnight in the fridge.  This makes lots of tiny air bubbles in the pizza dough and makes it chewy rather than kirspy, which is exactly how I like my pizza.