He-Man Geico

Useless TV News:
Saw a new commercial on TV on Saturday.  At first I didn't know it was a commercial, but then...

WOW, they got the rights to use He-Man!
YouTube link here.

Weekend Report -> Gravity Falls Books

Food this weekend ->
Got some groceries Saturday morning and I grabbed some 50% off sliced steaks and 50% off mushrooms.  Quick fried the steaks and mushrooms in a pan with just salt and pepper.  Nuked some instant broccoli & cheese rice to go with it.

Steak, Mushrooms and Rice.

Made roast beef on Sunday night.  Dry rubbed it with salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and ginger.  I also surrounded it with some red potatoes, carrots, and sweet potatoes.

Roast Beef.

Cooked it abit longer than I would have liked.  It came out medium to medium-well.

Medium Roast Beef.

Made fresh rice to eat with the roast.

Sunday Dinner.

Useless Gaming News:
3-Player gaming on Friday night.  We played a new dice rolling game called Beeeees!  There no turns and constant rolling.  The object is to gain flowers to build your hive.  It's a really fun game and I had to order it the next day.

Beeeees!

Next was Stop Thief!  It's an updated version of the classic original.  Pretty fun.  I'm considering getting this too.

Stop Thief

We finished the night with Ghostbusters 2 and Splendor.

Ghostbusters 2.

Useless TV News:
I finally finished watching all of Gravity Falls.  This is an amazing cartoon by Disney.  The show follows the adventures of two 12 year old twin brother and sister during their summer vacation at their Uncle Stan's Mystery Shack in Gravity Falls.  In the show, Dipper (the boy) finds a book describing the mysteries in the town. 

Gravity Falls Books.

They released the exact same book in stores (middle book).  I picked it up on Saturday, along with a couple other books related to the show.

Happy Birthday Emi!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMI!!!

Autonomous Vehicle Demo

Dinner today -> Shwartz on Toasted Rye.
Nuked a pack of frozen Shwartz's Montreal smoke meat for dinner.  I toasted some slices of rye bread in the toaster, buttered and squirted yellow mustard on it to make 4 sandwiches.

Shwartz on Rye Sandwiches.

Useless News:
Went out this afternoon with most of my coworkers to watch the live autonomous vehicle demonstration.  I thought they were going to drive the Phase 1 loop, but they just blocked the road and drove small section of Legget Dr.  Wasn't that interesting.  It just stopped at a stop light and made a couple turns.  Paraphrasing Robin, I wasn't over-whelmed, I wasn't under-whelmed, I was just whelmed.
Here's a pick of the car driving by.

Auto Car Driving By.

I had a video, but I did the laundry tonight and I accidentally washed the USB stick with the video on it.  There's water in the stick and I'm hoping it dries out and still works.

Repugnus

Useless Transformers News:
Ben picked up for me, the last of the Titan masters: Shuffler and Repugnus.

Shuffler and Repugnus.

October USA Trip Items

Useless News:
Susanna and I went to Ogdensburg on the holiday Monday.  Stores in the US were open while everything was closed here.  We hit the Walmart and the Price Chopper.  I was hoping to find alot of different stuff than what I have here, but I didn't find too much on this trip that caught my eye.

Latest USA Items.

Highlights:
- Halloween Popcorn Balls.  Never seen this up here, and I've never tried it before.
- Ranch dipped hot wing Doritos.  New flavour I need to try.
- FlipSide pretzels.  One side is pretzel and the other side is cracker.
- Mint chocolate chip gum.  Tried it today.  Not good.
- I Can't Believe it's Not Butter Spray.  Had this before.  It's handy and tasty.
- $3 for 12 pink snowballs!
- Elf Snot.  It's a bottle of green slime for gifting gift cards in :)  They also had Reindeer Poo, but it was just brown slime.

Long Weekend Report -> Happy Birthday Uncle Chin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE CHIN!!!

Food this weekend ->
Picked up a Jerk Chicken dinner meal from NU Caribean on Friday night.  Excellent meal and very filling.  The chicken is very good. 

Jerk Chicken Dinner Meal.

Went to Montreal for the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend, but we went for our uncle's birthday.  We had a whole roast suckling pig at lunch time.  It was good and juicy with lots of crispy skin.

Whole Roast Suckling Pig.

Soon later we went out for dinner at Chinese restaurant for a big meal.
Started with fish maw soup.

Fish Maw Soup.

Deep fried shrimp and pork sausage wrapped in tofu, with pickled daikon and carrot.  The pickles worked perfectly with the meat.

Shrimp and Pork Sausage.

Birds nest.

Birds Nest.

Seafood with Chinese greens.

Seafood and Greens.

Steamed fish.  I found it over cooked.

Steamed Fish.

Shrimp paste patty.  So-so.  Needed more sauce.

Shrimp Paste Patty.

2 Lobsters in lobster sauce.  The lobster seemed small, but the sauce was very good.

Lobster in Lobster Sauce.

Sweet and Sour Pork.  Standard dish, but came too late.  We were all already pretty full.

Sweet and Sour Pork.

Fried rice.  I was near full when the fried rice showed up.  BUT I ended up eating 3 bowls of rice mixed with the lobster sauce.  It was a perfect combo that was really delicious and made me (and Linda) eat more.

Fried Rice.

Chow mein.  The must-have birthday noodle dish.

Chow Mein.

Dessert was next.  Cakes and fruit.  Dino got 2 cakes from Les Delices Lafrenaie.  She got a Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake and a Lemon Raspberry Cake.

Dessert!

I tried both.  I prefer the Lemon Raspberry, but both were good.

Cake Cross-Sections.

Useless Toy News:
Picked up some Lego sets on Friday because I wanted the exclusive Bricktober Lego Batman Movie set that was only available this weekend and limited to 50 per store.  It good that the gas station set was 50% off, so I didn't have to pay full price for Lego.

Latest Lego Additions.

Useless Transformers News:
Picked up the Walgreens Exclusive Titans Return Clone set from EB Games.  Got the last set out of Kanata.

Exclusive TF Clones.