Ghostbusters Lego

Useless Toy News:
I picked up the new Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Lego set from Play Value Toys on Sunday.  It's a pretty cool set and there are alot of pieces in it.

Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Lego Set.

I slowly built the set over 1.5hrs while watching TV.  Comes with Ecto-1, the 4 Ghostbusters, and a display stand.  Too bad it didn't include a Slimer figure.  Still a great set though.

Completed Ecto-1 and the Ghostbusters.

Weekend Report: Ribfest 2014 and Meat Overload

Food this weekend ->
Ed, Steve, and I went to Baton Rouge on Friday for my belated-birthday lunch.  I got a rib steak with veggies and fries.  It was pretty good.  A little more cooked med-rare than I would like.

Medium Rib Steak.

Steve and Ed both got the ribs.

Baton Rouge Ribs.

2nd Baton Rouge Ribs.

After lunch, Steve had an accident.  He somehow caught his pants on something getting into Ed's car and ripped his pants open!  LOL The hole is huge!  (FYI: It's green.  The underwear.)

Holey Pants.

Saturday morning I went to Ribfest on Sparks Street.  Since Ben and Susanna were busy, I went solo and picked up ribs from Camp31 and pulled pork, ribs, and chicken from Swine Fellows. 

Camp31 Sign.

Swine Fellows Sign.

I was there at 11am, and there were a ton of people there already and long lines.  Waited 1/2hr at both places for the food.

Left = Camp31, Right = Swine Fellows.

Saturday night, Henry was hosting a BBQ dinner as my relatives were in town.  He made a ton of BBQ food.  Steak, salmon, corn, duck wraps, chicken wings, sausages, and ceasar salad.  It was really good, and I was soooo full of meat.

BBQ Feast.

Dessert was watermelon, cherries, lemon meringue pie, and a chocolate whip pie.  We also had vanilla ice cream sundae with chocolate fudge cubes in a cone (not shown).

Desserts.

The lemon meringue pie was from Perkins.  It was so good.

Dessert Plate.

Than on Sunday, we went for Chinese buffet on Merivale.  I forgot my phone at home so there are no pics, but I ate a alot of mussels and seafood.  This lead up to an early dinner at Scores with Julie and Arseni.  I ordered ribs, but I couldn't finish it.  I was on meat overload.  

Useless Gaming News:
At Saturday's BBQ we played some Click Clack Lumberjack.  Fun game that is not easy.

We also play King of Tokyo.

Useless Movie News:
I went to see "How to Train Your Dragon 2" at Centrum with Julie and Arseni.  The movie is good and enjoyable.  Tells a good story with some action, dramatic parts, and funny bits. 

People will probably need to watch this movie before watching Season 3 of Dreamwork's Dragons.  The outcome of this movie will lead into the TV series.  I need to watch Season 1 and Season 2 now.  Hopefully someone has a copy of it and can give it to me.
Reminder: Next Friday is the "Transformers 4" release.

Maleficent

Went to see Maleficent tonight with Julie, Gen, and Jon.  The movie is telling "Sleeping Beauty" from the Evil Queen's side.  I found the movie entertaining.  Some action parts, some funny parts, really good CG, but only a so-so story.  Julie and Gen say it mostly follows the animated Disney version.

Maleficent.

Dinner today -> Chu Shing After 8 Snack
After the movie, we went for a late dinner at Chu Shing and ordered from the Snack menu.  Got a good mix of dishes.  Julie thinks deep fried intestine tastes like old leather shoes?  Gen and I didn't think so :)  The fried radish cake was good.  My favorite is still the congee with fried dough.
I forgot to take a pic of the food before most of it was eaten.  But the bigger mistake was that I forgot to leave a tip when we left!  If Chu Shing employees are reading this, I'm sorry and your service was very good.

Useless TV News:
Neat little "Game of Thrones" TV intro parody using the "Legend of Zelda" theme.

Rice Cooker Pancake

Dinner today -> Lettuce Wrapped Steak.
Made a quick steak today.  Sliced it up and mixed in some "No Limits" BBQ sauce.  This sauce is savoury and smoky.  Really good.  I then ripped some lettuce cups to wrap the steak with.  Good simple combo.

Steak to be Wrapped in Lettuce.

Useless Food News:
I want to try this rice cooker pancake.  They look good and super simple to make.

Paper Cut

Useless Gaming News:
I some how got a small, deep paper cut on my thumb yesterday.  I noticed it is right on the spot where I can best use a Nintendo controller's directional pad.  It's an injury to my "Nintendo Thumb" right before I even breakout my new Wii U.

Paper Cut on my Nintendo Thumb.

Useless Food News:
Picked up some Doritos today.  I got this bag that I think is new: Doritos Roulette.  Some of the doritos inside are randomly really hot!  This is a product I expect to see in Japan, but wouldn't expect to see here.  This is pretty cool.

Doritos Roulette.

Birthday Presents

Useless Birthday Present News:
Another week, another multi-day customer audit.  All this stress now, but come Thursday I'll be done.  And when I'm done, I get to play with my new Wii U!  :)  I bought it for myself for my birthday (and because there was a "no tax" sale this past Saturday at the Superstore).  I got the Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle.

Mario Kart 8 Wii U Bundle.

Susanna got me a farting brain aka "Brain Fart".  I'll keep it at my desk for these occasions.

Brain Fart.

Becky gave me a CSI Kit

CSI Kit.

Lots of science stuff inside.  Maybe I can figure out who took my last piece of prank gum that turns your mouth blue.

Inside the CSI Kit.

Useless Food News:
Reminder: Ottawa Ribfest starts on Wednesday this week. 
FYI: "Camp31" is my running favorite the past 2 years.

Weekend Report: Happy Birthday to Me!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FONGPAY!!!

BBQ at Jeff & Linda's place.  Anthony, Teresa, and the kids were there too.  We BBQed some bacon wrapped steaks, sausages, and Korean short ribs.  We also had a couple salads, smashed potatoes, and onion rings.

BBQ Birthday Dinner.

Dessert was 2 dozen cupcakes from Beyond the Batter.  We had Red Velvet, Triple Chocolate?, Blueberry Lemonade,

Man Cake (bacon on it), Oreo Cheesecake, and Coconut Cloud. 

My favorite is the Blueberry Lemonade.  It is extremely good.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

For Father's day we went to Fushion Dimsum and Sushi.  The food was good, but it was slow and half our orders never arrived.  The waitress told us to re-order the stuff.  Also the tea didn't show up til 20 minutes after we got seated.  The service on the weekend is really poor.  The weekday service is way better.  Didn't take any pics of the food.
Afterwards we had some Limoncello Frutti Di Basco cake I got from Montreal, and some leftover cupcakes.

Father's Day Desserts.

Margart made this BMW cake for Jeff.  Pretty cool.

BMW Car Cake.

Useless Gaming News:
Jeff's family got me the Smart Ass trivia game for my birthday.  We will give it a shot another day.

Smart Ass Game.

We then proceeded to play Click Clack Lumberjack.  Fun game that is not as easy as it looks.

Click Clack Lumberjack.

Noueni.  Longer game than expected and scoring comes down to the last player's play.  So-so game.

Noueni.

Phantom Society.  Still a fun mine-sweeper type game.

Phantom Society.

Red Dwarf Inn 1.  Fun fantasy drinking game.

Red Dwarf Inn.