This was a rather simple dinner. It needs a side, next time, I’ll make rice with it.
The dinner went right as my son, Walker Dennis, helped me make it and he hasn’t asked to help in a month or so. I’m not sure what made him stop cooking with Dada but I miss the little guy being at my side. We enjoy a nice tall can of Arizona Sweet Tea. I enjoy one, even if he doesn’t ask for some but it is nice when I drink from the can and he enjoys his share in his Tumbler. And by share, I mean, the bulk of the drink.
My son had a great time with unfolding the jumbo crescent rolls. He also liked making the soup. I had cooked the chicken with a sprinkling of rosemary. He wanted to try the rosemary and with the reminder of the sample, put that into the soup. Not like it changed it at all but he made that bold choice.
I’m not sure if it needed two cans of cream of chicken soup or two cans worth of milk but I would have liked more soup. I feel like two of each, might be a tad much. My son really liked the soup, so that’s good to know. It doesn’t really taste all that bad, on its own.
We went with Pillsbury jumbo rolls and Campbell’s soup.
I thought the rolls tasted pretty great, I just wanted more soup. My wife and son thought it was okay, remarking that it needed a side. We ate all eight of them so no left overs for us.
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This weekend started our October weekends being quite busy. We had plans to watch the seven Arrow episodes we needed, so we can watch season six live but we didn’t watch any episodes.
I misread Netflix’s episode count for The Office’s fifth season. At first, I thought it was only 23 episodes so we marathon-ed the entire Michael Scott Paper Company, but we still have a couple more episodes before that season is over. Our next episode is Cafe Disco.
My son and I are 20 minutes into Riverdale’s first episode of season two. So far, pretty good. We watched it in two sittings of ten minutes so I need to power through and watch the rest of it. He’s having some rough nights, going to sleep on his own, so it has cut into our television watching.
I’m on episode 74 of Living Between Wednesdays.
I’ve cooled down on TMNT Legends, this weekend, as I only really logged to visit the shop, play my PVP games and attempted to unlock Splinter, which is going to take forever as I still only have my four turtles and two of them are Leonardos. My main team still isn’t strong enough to beat the two levels I’m working on, enough to three star both levels and I really don’t want to move onto new levels until I’ve gotten those two levels three starred.
Lots of Halloween and Fall activities are coming up and we’re excited for and ready for Halloween to be over as it is taking up some of our time but once we’re at the events, they are pretty fun.
The Kleins also met the Montana Ghostbusters! That was pretty cool. Once we left the Fallfest, which is getting smaller each year, our son kept seeing ghosts and wanting us to call the Ghostbusters. Which is super cute.
My wife was sweet enough to ask me what Kitty Pryde merchandise do I not own, and while showing her my “Wishlist” tags on this site, she noticed that I still had this toy listed as a Wishlist item. I told her that I do a follow up “Bragging Rights” post when I actually received the item. There isn’t a way to check the post or something like that, to show that I now own it. Well, I could edit the original post, but then, that doesn’t pump the original post or something. Plus, it gives me another post, and that’s always nice.
What isn’t nice though, is that I never got around to bragging about my awesome wife buying this for me! I think what stopped me was that I wanted to take a picture of my dorky self with it, and use that image for it. The year prior, so two Christmases ago, my wife got me the Kitty Pryde Marvel Bishoujo Statue and I had her take a picture of me then.
Last year though, I had a phone that allowed me to take selfies and I could have done it myself, awkwardly holding this toy in one hand and a camera in the other.
My lame excuse was, I should have just asked her to take the picture of me and moved on. I’ve had plenty of time, I just didn’t do it.
Now ten months later, I’m finally getting around to writing this post. I’m an arse. And a jerk!
So it finally happened. I made something that just wasn’t good. Which has killed my buzz for writing this post.
I had notes on our recipe so I clearly made this before, but we couldn’t recall how it went. Which should have been a sign.
My only note was that instead of using one 6 ounce jar of French’s French fried onions, I should two of those, to add that much more crunch. Which, didn’t seem that bad of an edit. Apparently, I made this before I adopted my happy face system of putting either a happy or sad face in the upper right corner of the recipe. So I knew I made this over a year, maybe two years ago. So it was worth a second attempt.
My wife didn’t like it and Walker Dennis also didn’t care for it, and he’s a big fan of pasta. It was a huge miss. Which, of course, made eating it the next day, not great. Which, we didn’t do. Some items taste better, the next day, but they usually start off tasting pretty good, to begin with.
I’m not sure what happen, besides that I followed the directions and everything was cooked right. Maybe we’re not big french onion dip fans. I couldn’t find a refrigerated French Onion Dip, that was sour cream based. So I had to buy a packet of french onion dip, and mix that with a 16 ounce container of sour cream. Though, I did think we should have mixed two packets of dip into the container as I thought the mixture was going to get lost in there. It tasted okay, as a dip, and the dip directions only state one packet is necessary for a 16 ounce container but it could have been more favorable with two packets.
Luckily, I always start dinner early and usually have pizza money in case a dinner goes south, so twenty minutes later, we had something good to eat and I had left overs that I didn’t quite enjoy.
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I wished we had more Office episodes that we’ve seen, I feel like we only saw a couple of them, so far this week. Our next episode is Season Five’s Golden Ticket.
No new episodes of Person of Interest, as we’re trying to marathon Arrow’s fifth season so we can stay current with the new season. I’m not sure how we’re going to do that with wanting to keep Supergirl and Flash on the CW. It seems like a lot of work to watch our ABC comedies (Black-ish, Goldbergs and Modern Family). Over at FOX, we’re watching Brooklyn Nine Nine. If only the Voice wasn’t two episodes and I wish I was enjoying Jennifer Hudson but maybe by the time we get to the Battle Rounds, someone would have talked to her about calming down or being watchable. Dancing is being a great this season, but I’m glad they are sticking to the one episode a week format.
The Fall season is always the hardest to try to squeeze in our television watching, especially with me working two jobs. Our transmission completely died on us, so now we have that bill and the mechanic told us that our gasket head is slowly leaking, so there goes our tax refund, for next year. I was so looking forward to not working a part time job, which that job is nice, but not having to rely on it for that additional income, and be an adult and simply live on the one income and be home more in the evenings. Plus, our son isn’t napping during the weekend, so we are losing our television time there. It’ll be different if we could watch our shows, at night, but he’s so loud and playful that I don’t want to watch a show that I enjoy, by barely listening to it. Which only really is The Office and This is Us that I really want to watch, those and Person of Interest, as we’re in the last handful of episodes, and I want to see see.
I just looked up Supergirl and apparently her show started last week, so now we’re two behind! Good grief! Flash came back on Monday and Arrow premiere’s tonight, so we’re not crazy behind on two of the three CW shows.
Our next episode of Arrow is Season Five’s Fighting Fire with Fire, nowhere near episode 23, where we need to be. Probably going to stick with Flash and Supergirl and miss out on Arrow and we haven’t even attempted Legends of Tomorrow.
Riverdale came back last night, so I’m behind on that show too. If only I could watch television and not on my Kindle. If I had a choice between watching a show on my Kindle and playing a game on my Kindle and enjoying a podcast, I’m choosing game and podcast, as that’s two things instead of one. I need to commit to watching an episode and then game/podcast, I just have to get there first. I guess that’s what Riverdale will be for me. I don’t want to fall too far behind on that. Season two is going to have 22 episodes, which is super disappointing. That show had at least two filler episodes to hit 13 so I can only imagine how 22 is going to feel. These CW shows could have one or two less episodes and I’ll be completely fine with that. I’ve heard the Marvel Netflix episodes are like that too. Like, three or four more episodes than they really need.
Speaking of podcasts, I’m current with Turtle Soup and finishing the latest episode of Prinze and the Wolf, at lunch today. Turtle Soup 161 had a Kitty Pryde reference, so that’s pretty great.
My wife was showing me how far behind I am with Kitty Pryde related merchandise, I should create Wishlist posts for those items, just so I can be more aware of them. I’m so out of touch with comics and such. If I can get current with Living Between Wednesdays, I’m on episode 72 now, I’ll have a better feel of what is happening in comics and related news. Though neither of them are big X-Men fans so I won’t be updated on the key series I’m most committed too but I’m not all that committed to it now, anyway. I suppose the word would be most “interested” in. I am going to Comixology and still downloading the free comics of the week, but I’m not even current on my comics wishlist, I must be two or three months behind. I’m also not even reading those free comics.
I gave up on Avengers Academy as they did two special events, Inhumans and the current Halloween one, and I’m not where I need to be to even attempt those so that was a crushing defeat. I tried Marvel Puzzle Quest, but when I’m not using Storm, I don’t think I fully “get” that game.
I’ve retried Simpsons Tap Out but that game is daunting and I couldn’t reload my previous Springville, so that killed my buzz for that game. Plus, they are running their own Halloween event so I didn’t want to establish a new city and stay current on Halloween, so I stopped before even really starting.
I’m just mostly looking for a game that I can play while waiting for more lives in TMNT Legends.
Which I’m still super into TMNT Legends. I got my main team to level 34, which feels great that most of them are no longer locked at level 30, so I lost like a week finally getting them to three stars. I’ve gotten a few additional characters, I’m using way too many T-Coins so I have to re-evaluate how I’m going to use them. Mostly, I’m just using them, in the store, towards characters I don’t have, instead of using them to get characters to their next star point. Which I didn’t really do, besides my main team of five – Steranko, Stockman Fly, Leonardo, Karai and Newtralizer. I unlocked 80s Leonardo, so now I finally have a third turtle, two of the same turtle but still. Those two Leos and 2012 Donatello, makes up my third. I really want a Raphael and a Michelangelo. Doesn’t matter what outfit, I just want one each of the turtles. Especially with that Splinter special event wherein only the turtles can fight him and I don’t get many tries with just two turtles. There sets of turtles are – 2012, 80s, Larp outfits, Vision Quest outfits, Current Movie Versions and Original Mirage Turtles.
I have April O’Neil now, Shredder, Dogpound, Mondo Gecko, Hun, Muckman, Mutagen Man and, Karai Serpent. I’m getting close on a few others. I got several of my previous characters up to their second star, so I can get them to level 30 and now they have two moves, making them very useful.
They have been teasing an update with a slew of characters – Shinigami (who I have to keep relooking up, as I don’t recognize her), Usagi Yojimbo (who I adore), Alopex (who should be fun, though I wish we could get Ninjara, but that isn’t ever going to happen), 80s Shredder and Kang, April Kunoichi, Super Shredder (I imagine 2012 version and not Secret of the Ooze), Armaggon (who I really like) and the Space Turtles from season four. We’re in the middle of season three’s rewatch, which I needed as I didn’t really pay that much attention during my first run through. They just came back to New York and got Splinter’s mind back. I recall the last episodes pretty well but I’m really looking forward to season four.
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I finally had a moment this past weekend and got our recipe cookbooks under control. Two three inch binders of dinner/lunch/app recipes. Got Breakfast and Dessert, both in two inch binders. Now I just have to keep these binders updated. Which I’m already behind on doing. We already need another three inch binder, as I’m sure we’re going to fill up that one in no time. Breakfast and Desserts should probably be in three inch binders, as well, but those are like five dollars each! I’m hoping the office gets some banged up ones and I can reuse those as they don’t need to be in great condition.
That’s me this week! Dinner for next week should be really good, I’m hoping.
I’m also thinking of participating in No Shave November and National Write a Novel, which I’ve really been wanting to do it but never have the thought to do it until mid-November or early October (so I’m already in the same boat I’m always in). I’m hoping remembering to not shave, makes me remember to write a novel.
I’ve also started listening to The Fighter and the Kid, mostly on YouTube, as Freddie Prinze Jr. has been on two episodes.
Thanks to UFC on FOX for hosting this video.
I’ve watched a few now but I’m hooked and I’m not even into MMA but Brendan Schaub and Bryan Callen make it seem like something I could get into and I really enjoy their dynamic.
Bryan Callen is an actor I’ve always liked when I see him in something. I had forgotten he was on How I Met Your Mother as Barney’s boss. Well, he was Marshall and Ted’s boss too, now that I think of it. He’s on the Goldbergs, too. He was really funny in Old School as well, which is true for everything he’s in. I don’t remember him from the first two Hangover films. I should check out his nine episodes of Seventh Heaven, any excuse to watch Beverley Mitchell, I say. I really need to watch that new show of hers, along with Christine Lakin and Jodi Sweetin. It is called Hollywood Darlings on the Pop channel, a channel I’ve never heard of until now. I do like all three of those ladies.
I thought I could recommend with the episode numbers but it seems like YouTube (or them, most likely) were not keeping track of it that way, from the very beginning.
Thanks to the Fighter and the Kid for hosting their own videos.
Josh Wolf joined Freddie Prinze Jr. for episode 273.
I saw the Kevin Smith episode, episode 248. This made me want to dive back into Smodcast and Tell ‘Em Steve Dave, but that would be years and years of episodes and I can’t do that. I do miss hearing Scott Mosier’s tales though. He was on FEAB (Four Eyes and Beard) with Matt Mira, another great podcast. They just had so many that I fell way behind. Sort of like what is happening with me and Fighter and the Kid.
That’s when I thought I’ll look up their other celebrity appearances but I didn’t really recognize anyone else who I really wanted to see, besides the list at the bottom of this post.
Hosted by UFC on FOX, thanks!
Except for Whitney Cummings, episode 126.
I’m not sure what happened with FOX, Bryan hinted about something in episode 274 but their production value went way up once they took ownership of the show. I guess it wouldn’t be that hard to figure out which episode the switch is made.
From there, I’ve seen episodes 274 and 275. 276 just went up (they are on episode 297 – so I’m crazy behind), and I’m trying to learn their schedule. 288 is the Bill Goldberg episode, so that’s the last full episode I saw. I want to watch 290 with Taran Killam. So I’m not as crazy behind as I thought I was.
These are two hour episodes, so it takes some time to watch them. Mostly, I watch them at night as I try to unwind and go to sleep. I usually do one hour one night and finish it the next. Or I just watched the whole episode and regret doing so when I wake up, wishing I had another hour of sleep. But that’s on me.
Watching these back to back like I have, Bryan has these facial mannerisms that I feel like I’ve incorporated, or maybe I feel like I’m about to incorporate and I have to pull back.
Schaub is pretty controversial, I guess. My main take away was his record, 10-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC, something his Wikipedia page isn’t great with. Or I didn’t understand it.
So this is the video wherein Schaub says his goodbye to UFC –
UFC on FOX
So the very first episode on their channel is 161
The Fighter and the Kid
Which makes me think that I probably shouldn’t go deep on this show either, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that I’m use to.
but now I’m just searching “fighter and the kid 161” “162” and still seeing that UFC on FOX is hosting the videos. Maybe they had an agreement to co-host a few of them?
Okay, so 171 is the final one on UFC on FOX
and 172 is the first one only on The Figther and the Kid
I’ll make a point of watching these episodes, in the proper order and see if I can get some answers that way. (Or probably not, as this became a daunting task.)
As long as Bryan is on the episode, I’ll watch these as I see there are times when one is not present. I like Brendan but Bryan is who I’m drawn to more, at this moment. Brendan also has his own show and I feel like that has to concentrate more on the fights that I’m not watching so I’m passing on that right now. Big Brown Break Down, is a great title for a show. I do like that Brendan has joined Bryan in stand-up and they have taken their show on the road, just like what happened with Smodcast.
Looking at the thumbnails of the videos on The Fighter and the Kid page, they clearly get production values at some point. I couldn’t tell when that happen, I’ll probably have to go slower in my search and see when it occurs.
Looks like 211 is the earliest with the current set
210 has an older set, at least that’s how it looks like. They put a curtain up for a backdrop.
The comment section leads me to believe that people really like Bryan over Brendan, but I don’t see where that is coming from. Not yet, anyways. I get that I like Bryan more, but I’m more familiar with him. The comments read like they rather just have a podcast that doesn’t involve Brendan.
208 has Will Sasso, from Bryan’s MadTV days. The first of the curtain era.
207 has a logo backdrop. Not sure how else to describe that background. It is a well lit room, whereas I see some that are filmed in a very dark room, like from their UFC days. This episode has David Koechner AND Josh Wolf filling in for Bryan. I thought I recognized Josh Wolf in a couple thumbnails, I have to go back and see.
He is in two non-numbered episodes!
August 28, 2015
November 19, 2015
I wish they had committed to the episode numbers, for those two Josh Wolf appearances.
I can’t tell if it is just a different camera angle and I’m not really in a place to fully gauge what is happening. Mostly, I’m just looking for a good sampling of the old shows to get a better feel on the hosts.
Episodes 161 through to 207, appear to be the same room, but with the camera angle moving slower to camera left, over time.
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I found these interesting guest hosts. UFC on FOX is so cluttered with all of their UFC related videos, that I can’t even begin to start going down that list. Shame they didn’t just always have a Fighter and the Kid page, within the UFC channel. If anyone has any episode referrals, I am clearly making a list and can add to it.
Ed O’Neill, Episode 168. FPJr told a story about how O’Neill use to box and at the gym, would straight knock some kids out who thought he was nothing more than an old man!
So I had a lot more videos to post but after watching half of the Ed O’Neill interview, I’ve decided to not go backward in time. I’ve also decided to never watch an episode that doesn’t have Bryan in it, unless Josh Wolf is the guest host (or someone else that I really enjoy). Brendan is nice enough but I’ve found out that I watch for Bryan and their dynamic.
I will say that after the Bill Goldberg episode, I did want to watch the Steve Austin episode but that was an episode of Big Brown Breakdown and I was going to earn the Steve Austin section but I’ve only gotten to the 14:28 mark, and that was weeks ago.
I’ll eventually just skip ahead to the Steve Austin section but I’ve fallen way behind on this series.
Here is the list of guest stars that I had originally found interesting enough to provide the embedded videos but now I’m just going to provide the episode number.
Michael Rapaport (176 and 232)
Dominic Monaghan (179)
Tom Papa (186)
Dr. Drew (190)
Bob Saget (191)
John McGinley (203)
Rob Corddry (213)
Pete Holmes (216)
Chris D’Elia (225 and 265)
Jeremy Pevin (234)
Rapaport and De’Elia are friends of the show so they make several appearances.
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Bryan Callen does have his own podcast, Mixed Mental Arts, with co-host, Hunter Maats
I guess I’m really a fan of Podbay FM, as I use that site for both Prinze and the Wolf and Living Between Wednesdays. They were hosting the official How I Met Your Mother podcast but it stopped when the show did and now those episodes are no longer available. I was so excited when I stumbled upon that and thought I had a new podcast to listen too but then the links were dead.
One of these days, I’ll get back into it. I’ve been tempted to just download the episodes onto my phone but knowing that there is a visual representation of the podcast, I don’t feel like I could go strictly audio with them. Especially as they have a news segment and they show images on the screen that Chen shows them. But I would listen to more episodes, if I had them on my phone.
This was a huge hit! My wife went back for thirds! She claims it is the best thing I’ve made, in a long time.
I pretty much stuck to the recipe, we added an onion, as we like onions. Someone had started eating some of the Nacho Cheese Doritos, so if I had my way, I would have open the bag myself and used half on the bottom and the other half on top. I was told that the person didn’t eat that many of the chips but it felt like only half the bag was available to me. Which, at first, I didn’t mind as I knew we bought the large back of Doritos. Not the family size (or is it party size?) bag but the traditional large bag. Then I looked, and those are the 9.75 ounce bags. So yeah, I would have preferred to use an entire bag and not one that was already opened prior to me needing it as a pretty crucial cooking ingredient.
I should have checked first, which I do with all recipes now, and I also recognize that those bags are 30% air, so it was most likely, hardly eaten. But still, I’ll never know until next time I make this. Which probably will be soon.
We also used Cheddar cheese and next time, I’ll go with the Mexican-blend, to give it that taste I’m sure the recipe wants. Cheddar is nice but the combination of Monterey Jack, Cheddar, Asadero and Queso Quesadilla cheeses, can’t be beat by regular Cheddar!
This was a real joy to prepare as well, everything went smoothly. I might not crush up the chips, as finely as I did, it might be nice to have larger pieces of chips as the finer chips became a big clump on the bottom. Pretty tasty but not that much of a crunch.
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I got to watch six more minutes of Asset’s second episode, so that wasn’t great. Also not great, I had two excellent chances of watch two episodes of Doctor Who and I just played TMNT Legends, instead, so that was dumb of me. I got April O’Neil and Hun unlocked, so that’s nice but I should have watched those episodes instead.
I’m in the middle of episode 66 of Living Between Wednesdays, still loving the heck out of that podcast.
They had Sean Jordan, the Wordburglar, as a guest. He was talking about his latest music video, Channel Halifax.
Thanks to Worldburglar Official for hosting his own video.
It reminds me of Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, or rather, those amazing parody versions of that song.
Halifax looks amazing, if I ever do my World Tour of Canada, I’ll have to make sure I visit that city. Lots of great recommendations in his song.
Rachelle mentions her love for Winter Soldier, quite often, to the point where I’m starting to really like him, more than I did before. I guess I took him for granted, but I haven’t really read many of his adventures. So I have spent some time on YouTube, watching some Stucky videos. Then she mention how Winter Solider / Black Widow (Winter’s Widow) is Marvel’s Batman and Catwoman. Which made me think that YouTube must have tribute videos for that couple. YouTube did not disappoint!
So I found one video that used Ed Sheeran’s Afire Love and now I love that song, so much!
Thanks to YouTuber Diamond Tributes for combining the song with Prison Break.
Thanks to YouTuber Claire Brown for hipping me to the song to begin with. She only used half of the song and the title “then the devil took your memory” didn’t help me at all! But it was enough to find Ed Sheeran’s song, that man is very talented.
Our next episode of The Office Season Five is The Duel.
Our next episode of Arrow is Season Five’s Bratva.
Our next episode of Person of Interest Season Five’s The Day the World Went Away. We’re in the final four episodes, so we might try to marathon these, if we get the chance. They have been doing done-in-ones with some mythology sprinkled within the episodes but the way Sotto Voce ended, it feels like we should be in for one stellar race to the finale. I’ve already gotten two elements spoiled so I’m mostly waiting to see how that plays out.
That’s pretty much what I did last week, entertainment wise.
If you allow your children to be on YouTube, you probably have heard of Blippi.
So the other day, I wanted to learn about who Walker Dennis’ current obsession is. By current, I mean, like a six month love affair. Blippi essentially replaced Bounce Patrol in our house.
Thanks to these two wonderful articles, I know a bunch more about the man and the character.
I went from being slightly annoyed at hearing the same music and seeing the same visuals (over and over, again) to having a new appreciation for him, now that I know he’s really Stevin John, a veteran US Air Force serviceman. Good for him for being inspired to make better entertainment for his nephew and now is making crazy money and having world wide recognition, is super impressive.
We got our son this sweet pair of headphones, so I rarely hear the music but it isn’t really that bad. It was more of an issue of hearing the same 30 seconds of something, without context, and on repeat.
Garbage Trucks for Children with Blippi, is his most popular video.
The ones Walker Dennis has watched the most, is the videos where Blippi goes on field trips.
Like, to the Ranch
Or, to the Trampoline Park (his current favorite video)
Or, learning about the letter B with Handles Franklin, a Globetrotter.
I’m pretty sure the very first video I noticed him watching, and me learning the lyrics, was to the Excavator Song.
Thanks to Blippi for hosting his own videos.
I’m sure my son will eventually move on to another YouTube personality, eventually, but he’s really into Blippi right now. Even when he was into his car crash videos (a very short phrase, but we still have to crash our grocery cart into things, from time to time) he was still watching Blippi.
There are other videos my son watches, on a regular basis, but I haven’t felt compelled to figure out what their deals are, yet.
The theme of the speech was “Can a Conversation Save a Life.” It is all about how doctors and nurses should make sure there is a real exchange of thoughts when discussing one’s medical treatment.
People were crying in the conference room. At one point, I wanted to just get on a plane and go hug my own son and just hope he never has anything this tragic happen to him. Luckily, his doctor, Dr. Danielson, is amazing and super forthcoming and tells us additional information that we hadn’t even thought to ask yet. She’s pretty great.
Because of what happen to Michael, Patricia worked extremely hard and got the Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act passed.
Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act
For all physicians who hold an active or inactive license issued by the Colorado Board of
Medical Examiners prior to December 31, 2007, you will have to comply with the
requirements of the Michael Skolnik Transparency Act beginning with the May 31, 2009
renewal period. Licensing is the responsibility of each physician and, in accordance with
the Act, you will be asked to provide information regarding, but not limited to, medical
licenses ever held, current and active board certifications and specialties, affiliations with
hospitals and health-care facilities, business ownership in any business whose mission
relates to providing health-care services or products, employment contracts related to
health care, disciplinary actions, actions against medical privileges, criminal conviction
or plea arrangements, and resolution of medical malpractice claims. For more
information, please go to the CMBE website at http://www.dora.state.co.us/medical/
Also, the Office of Professional Risk Management will be providing information on
resolution of medical malpractice claims which have occurred while you have been
employed by the University of Colorado, and UPI will be providing information
regarding current independent contractor agreements of which it is aware. However, it is
your responsibility to collect all of the requisite information in order to maintain your licensure.
I used this link to get that copy, as the website wouldn’t work as a link here.
She was even able to get it amended twice more, once to include nurses and a second time to strengthen the act on patients benefit.
That’s the thing about this case is that it really puts you in her place. If a doctor, that a good friend recommended to me, told me that my son had 48 hours to live and really needed an operation, what would I do? Is 48 hours enough time to even get a second opinion? Most doctors have extremely filled schedules and this doctor made a special appointment to see her son. It is in a field that I have no real reference point for. One would hope that your doctor well tell you everything but it is hard to know what to ask. She had this great line about how she didn’t even not know what she knew to even ask about. When it comes to our health, especially after a bad diagnosis, it is hard to think of questions while your mind is swirling around about the future.
Patricia highly recommends bringing someone with you to all of your doctor appointments, so that they can ask questions on your behalf, or to remind you of your own questions that you may forget at the end of the session.
It was nice that this session was at midday Thursday, as it was a nice ice breaker for the rest of the conference as everyone had a reaction to the subject material.
The Act is only for Colorado but various states have passed similar acts.
It really was a very powerful presentation and I’m still thinking about it, nearly two weeks later.
This turn out better than I could have expected! I felt a tad out of my league but once I committed to this taking up a slew of dishes, it went pretty beautifully.
The only thing I didn’t include was mushrooms, as we’re not a fan of them. Also, I didn’t butterfly the chicken breasts as I used chicken thighs that were already pretty thin.
Instead of bowls, I use our plates, for creating the breading mixture and for the eggs. Our plates have a nice curved up edge, so I don’t worry about losing the egg over the side.
I’m getting better with breading chicken, I just recognize it is a skill that needs improving and congratulate myself on my progress. It is the little things.
With the cream sauce, we bought a small pint of heavy cream and I knew I should have put all of it in as we were never going to use the left over heavy cream. A pint, it turns out, is two cups and maybe an additional half a cup, some small difference there. I should have just used the whole pint.
For the pasta, I cut sliced the peppers (yellow and red) into small chunks. I do need to work on getting them smaller. Onions too, for that matter. I think, when it came time to mix the veggies into the pasta, I needed to stir it for maybe the full five minutes or something. They ended up mixed throughout but some of them were on the bottom of the pot and our bowls. They could have been more mixed in. I imagine more stirring or smaller pieces would fix that. That’s a prep issue I’m also working on. I’ll be impress with anyone that can prepare all of the steps within 15 minutes and it takes me like three minutes each, alone, to slice vegetables.
For breadcrumbs, I use the Progresso Italian breadcrumbs that we have plenty of left over from a previous dinner.
I cooked everything on the shorter time limit. So three minutes for cooking the peppers and onion. Three minutes with the chicken, on each side. I stirred for three minutes but I’ll change that to five minutes, next time.
I was going to slice the chicken into smaller strips but the breading was coming off with the first attempt so I ended up slicing the chicken thighs in half and letting us cut our own chicken into smaller pieces.
This was another recipe that killed our Parmesan cheese supply. Which reminds me, I used grated cheese for both the chicken and the cream sauce. That’s what we bought, so next time, I will buy shredded Parmesan cheese for the sauce, as I bet that would cause it be thicken up better and be more representative of the original recipe.
We really liked it, Walker Dennis ate the pasta, which I figure was going to happen. I have never ate at a Cheesecake factory, so I only had the one picture as a guide. I’m pretty sure my wife never had this dish at the restaurant so none of us have anything to compare the dish to, besides our personal taste.
Lots of dishes, a long prep time but all worth it in the end.
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No personal television time for me, this week. We did finish The Office Season Four, and now we’re into Season Five. Our next episode is Season Five’s Customer Survey.
We also saw two episodes of Arrow, so our next episode is Season Five’s What We Leave Behind.
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Video Game-wise. I played a slew of TMNT Legends. I unlocked Karai-Serpent, proper Baxter Stockman and Rat King. I maxed out Stockman-Fly, Leonardo, Karai and Newtralizer. So I’ve been mostly trying to get their DNA cards so I can level them up past level 30. So that was so much of a grind, and I kept imagining typing this sentence and didn’t like the idea of continuing to do all of that extra work. I’ll probably keep trying, in the mornings and at night, but it takes a lot of time and work to get 70 DNA cards (then to do it three more times!) that I’m not envisioning doing it for much longer. I enjoy the mini-missions, and such, but I’m not making much progress with unlocking other characters so I’m spending most of my time getting my main team to become competitive.
I’m on episode 59 of Living Between Wednesdays. Rachelle mention how much she enjoys playing Avengers Academy, so I gave that a chance this morning. I have Iron Man, Wasp, Loki and now Black Widow. That’s who you start with so I’m very much still just following the script. I see there is an Inhumans special event going on but I haven’t unlocked that mode yet. I also haven’t gotten to the point where I can change the settings so I can turn off the sound and music. I’m hoping the next time I log in, I’ll have those options.
I’m two episodes behind on Prinze and the Wolf, so I need to get back to that but I’m still loving my binging LBW but I can easily take an hour break (two!, now) and stay current with P&tW. I saw Eric posting that they were recording Turtle Soup 160, so I should sneak in an episode of Prinze and the Wolf before that episode drops. Which I just checked and it already dropped! So now I have to take that break. These are the problems, I enjoy having.
I’ve started a new mission on Pandora. I started the following channels, for these songs –
Weezer – In the Garage
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Missing Link
Dinosaur Jr – Missing Link
. . . And You will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead – Ounce of Prevention
Linkin Park – H! VLTG3
I only really started this late Saturday and only made three attempts on each channel but I had the hardest time confirming these were the only songs that make reference to Kitty Pryde. I’ve made far too many Music/Song posts since 2014, so I couldn’t use my own website to confirm it. As far as I could see, these still are the only songs that reference her. I was surprised how much I enjoyed Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Dinosaur Jr., also who else Pandora fills their respected channels with. In these early days, I’m mostly down voting the non-channel name songs, voting up the correctly songs and then skipping those songs so I can continue the mission. Something dumb and it kills like three minutes. Eventually, I’ll hear one of these songs on one of these channels.
That’s pretty much what I’ve been up to, entertainment wise. I saw saw Trolls twice and Secret Life of Pets, one additional time.
I just checked the Wikipedia page for Marvel Avengers Academy, they don’t have any mutants like Magik, Kitty Pryde or Shadowcat, Cyclops and Wolverine. I checked to see if they had Lockheed and they don’t even have him! For shame! I may not commit to playing this game but we’ll see how long I stick with it. Like TMNT Legends, I’m a year behind on everything. Unlike TMNT Legends, who has all the characters actively available, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get the characters I’ve missed out on from Avengers Academy. Time will tell.
I made dinner last night . . . on a Tuesday! We were not super hungry but we still needed to eat so I looked for one of what I thought was several simple pasta recipes. It took so long to locate this one. So it won by default. I’m sure the other recipes are all next to each other in our five binders of recipes. I really do need to take the time to make specific binders. Probably make it down to : chicken, breakfast, slow cooker, dessert and pasta – or something like that, I have to work on my list but that’s not a bad start. I had a breakfast, dessert and a slow cooker binder but either I started throwing items in to fill them up or those binders are one inch and couldn’t be used for much else. I should get five three inch binders and never need binders again!
This reminds me that I went through a serious basil phase and I believe one of those binders is nothing but basil recipes. I had a basil phase and a pepperoncini phase.
Onto the recipe itself. We didn’t have fettuccine so I used bowtie pasta. Turns out, they are officially called, farfalle. I’m sure that’s the first time I’ve seen that word. I used two tablespoons of garlic, as using a measurement of “half” doesn’t make any sense. I’m sure it means to use a full scoop of whichever measuring spoon and then don’t fill it up nearly as much, the second time. It is garlic, so I did two full tablespoons, as we like garlic.
Being so empowered by my garlic decision, I quickly put two teaspoons of crushed red pepper in. And even as I was putting the second spoonful in, I knew it was too much. So I would recommend only using one teaspoon of crushed red pepper.
We need using Parmesan cheese in our recipes and are constantly buying jugs of it. We’ve committed to buying the larger container of it but now it seems like we’re using it even more!
So I made it too spicy for myself and Walker Dennis, my wife liked it but next time, it should be better. I needed to drink so much, I use to handle spices back in my Arizona days but it has been a long time that I have to rebuild my tolerance.
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Denver was amazing, spent so much on food but luckily, I get reimburse for that but still, the money being spent, was on my mind. I got to see the Colorado Rockies play (and win) against my childhood team of the San Diego Padres. I’m not sure how this worked out but for a couple years, the San Diego Padres used a facility in Yuma, Arizona has a training ground. It doesn’t make sense, when I look back at it, but I’ve had others confirmed that was the case. No one knows why, as that field wasn’t amazing or anything but that was the case. So the Padres were my go-to team to root for, then I switched and root for the Cubs. Which, up until last year, wasn’t great but when you like a team, you like a team.
I’m working on a post that presents the keynote speaker’s story, as it was heart breaking to hear but she has made the most out of it. In the middle of it, I just wanted to jump on a plane and go hug my three-year-old son. I can’t believe he’s going to be four in three short months.
I need to locate the YouTube video that she referenced, as that’ll be the crux of the post, if I can’t find that then I will have to rework my post.
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While in Denver, I was able to catch up on my Doctor Who, not nearly as much as I thought I was going to do but I saw a few more episodes than I have in a long while. My next episode is Season 9’s Face the Raven, the tenth episode. So I watched three episodes. So I’m three episodes and a special away from finishing season nine and having to figure out how I’m going to watch season ten. Hopefully the Husbands of River Song is on Amazon, and for free, if not, I’ll have to figure that out too. Now that I know I’m so close, I really should buckle down and finish that.
Instead of watching a slew of Netflix, which I guess I didn’t watch any Netflix as Doctor Who is on Amazon, but still. I got crazy caught up on the Living Between Wednesdays podcast and played a slew of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Legends. I’m crazy far in that game. Pretty much, I would use up all of my energy (pizzas) and once that was done, I’ll watch an episode of Doctor Who and jump back into TMNT Legends before committing to sleeping. While playing Legends, with no sound or music, I’ll listen to Living Between Wednesdays.
I’m on episode 52 now, so I’m more than half way, which is intense! I use the website, Player FM, to download the episodes. I use that website to also listen to Prinze and the Wolf. Except, the Prinze and the Wolf has a different interface so I’m able to just leave the website, on my phone, onto the episode and click back page and go to the episode list and download the latest episode and do that, every week. Living Between Wednesdays, isn’t as easy but maybe it is because I’m not current with it. Though, I’m almost to episode 60, which is the last episode I see before having to wait the very long 15 seconds for the Pre-60 episodes to load so I can download those. So 60 has been this milestone moment, in my head, that if I can get there, I can download episodes without having to wait. It is a small thing but that wait time as me downloading five episodes at a time. I have last week’s episode of Prinze and the Wolf, and I’m sure this week’s episode is going to be uploaded soon – like today – but I’m really enjoying Living Between Wednesdays and I’m so close to my goal of 60 that I’m putting it on hold for the moment. Playing Legends, at night, as also cut into my Fighter and the Kid podcast viewing on YouTube, and I really do want to watch the Taran Kilam episode, episode 290. Which was two weeks ago, so I may be six episodes behind now. I’m hoping he talks about his wife, Cobie Smulders, on that episode.
So I’m sort of obsess with TMNT Legends but the way the energy works, I can only play it for an hour at a time. So I try to play in the morning, at lunch now and at night. Which, really, is enough. I’m at the point where I’m just grinding away trying to get my heroes stronger as I’m trying to three star missions in Chapter Four before moving onto the next mission but I have two levels at one star each and I barely earn those one stars. So I need to get my main group of five to be stronger, they are level 26 and I’m level 27 so once I get them stronger, I can try to three star them. I’m at the point where I need to get them stronger so I can unlock their level 25 moves (it makes sense if you play the game – which you should!) but I’m not strong enough to get the items to improve their skills. I’m in a weird place right now.
My main team is Leonardo, Karai, Newtralizer (my PVP team), Steranko (my four person PVP team, which I’m doing pretty well there, at the moment) and Stockman Fly. My goal is to level up Leonardo and Stockman Fly’s healing moves but I also really need to level up Karai and Sternako’s area moves. Newtralizer is just a good guy, in the game, to have as another enforcer. So that’s where I’m at in the game. I believe I have ten characters now and I’m getting closer to getting some other characters, so all the time is finally paying off. I need more Orange (Swift) and Red (Might) characters, having those characters would make the Gauntlet and the main game easier. So I have lots of goals in that game.
I’ve learn my lesson about not wasting Mutagen now, I’m only using Mutagen to get my new characters up to level 20. I’ve also started experimenting with using my T-Coins to go to the Shop and buying a DNA card for the character cards that cost below 500 T-Coins, to get me closer to several characters. You need either 5/20/70 DNA cards to unlock characters. I’ve gotten some 5 DNA card guys but their level max is 20 until you get 20 more cards but level 20 isn’t that bad, if you level up their moves quickly. Which I do like the new practice I’ve started, of getting a new characters, leveling up their one move (or two if they have them) until that move is up to the level 20 standard. From there, they need items to level up the individual move and the level 25 of the move require items that only certain levels have – and those are the levels that are kicking my butt, right now. So it is a vicious cycle I’m in.
I have a lot of thoughts with TMNT Legends. I’m super enjoying the game and I don’t mind grinding as I remember doing that with my RPG days. Which, this game has really satisfy that RPG itch I’ve been having for years now. I’m fully committed to this and it really is a fun game. I unlocked Kirby-Bat, and I have him at 20 and his one move up to 20 but he still isn’t that strong. But still, I need Orange guys and he was next up.
I’ve also started really playing the Hard levels and going for certain characters DNA, which is something I should have done from the beginning, that’s been another lesson to learn. I resisted it, before, as those levels cost 12 pizza points instead of six, and give the same items as the Normal levels BUT they provide a DNA card to a character I want, so it is sort of worth it. Plus, 12 points goes toward my overall experience instead of six, so I’m leveling up myself and then I can get my main guys up to my level and they’ll be that much stronger.
I got a couple characters while in Denver – Chris Bradshaw, Justin, Xever, Pizza Face and Pulverizer. I must have 11 characters then. I hadn’t really counted them before now.
I’m pretty proud of the progress I’ve made, progress towards getting other characters and progress in the game. I’m getting better at PVP and I’m really enjoying the special missions. I wish I could make progress on the Movie Special Mission but those foes are all level 26 and 27 and my main team is barely 26, they need to be 28 before I can stand a chance. That’s true for the Gauntlet too! They might be level 25 but a serious threat at 25.
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Since I was in Denver, we didn’t watch any of our shows together. We finally saw our first episode of the Office in a week, last night, so our next episode is Season Four’s Chair Model.
I believe that’s everything I watched or played in the past week.
I was irritated that Vudu doesn’t work on my Kindle, it makes sense as Amazon makes the Kindle and they don’t want me watching another company’s streaming device (that allows me to buy movies) so it is a direct competitor but still. I really wanted to watch Winter Solider (after listening to so much Living Between Wednesdays) and couldn’t as I didn’t have a way to download Vudu. I could have downloaded it onto my phone, but I barely have space on my phone as it is.
Dancing with the Stars announced the full cast of their upcoming 25th season, which airs on September 18.
The biggest surprised is that Sasha Farber is being regulated back to the Troupe! Why the demotion? Would he have been one of the actual dancers if he had married Emma during the off season? Did ABC want them to get married on the show and they refused? They couldn’t hurt Emma, as she’s the reigning champion but Sasha is fair game. I’ve performed a quick Google search and there were no reasons behind why he got demoted. He thanked his Twitter followers for causing an uproar but that’s about it.
Anyway, conspiracies aside, let’s get into the cast.
Nikki Bella, the future Mrs. John Cena. So expect to see him on a couple nights – except it looks like he’s currently a “Free Agent” in the WWE, appearing on both shows. So if he’s RAW during this show’s run, then he won’t be making any appearances. I still haven’t seen Nikki in anything, besides like one minute of WWE Total Divas, which featured Cena in the scene. I had to turn it off, WWE just isn’t for me, anymore. Apparently, she’s also the longest reigning Women’s champ at 301 days, so she must be quite popular. Cena makes that possible, I’m sure, but she’s earned those fans legitimately by now. Nikki is paired with Artem, who I imagine Sasha could have taken his place and regulated him back to the Troupe.
My wife will recognize Jordan Fisher from Secret Life of the American Teenager. I should recognize him from both Teen Beach films, but I don’t. He also wasn’t on the episodes of Secret Life that I’ve seen, or the portions of episodes, that I’ve seen. It is a real shame that Francia Raisa doesn’t work more. Fisher was also in Grease : Live but, again, I don’t know him. I could have seen his two episodes of Teen Wolf but there is a high chance, that he showed up after we gave up on that show. MTV was not kind to its releases, I want to say we gave up in the beginning of Season Three. He’s paired with Lindsay Arnold, so he should do good.
Nick Lachey and his wife, Vanessa, are dancing this season. They are paired with married couple, Maksim and Petra – not respectfully. Which is a cute pairing and I’m sure we’ll see lots of time committed to seeing these two couples. Which, with two couples, I wonder why they didn’t want to do three couples and include Sasha as one of the professional dancers?
Does the Troupe even do anything, now that we’re down to one episode? We just see them, for barely a full minute, as we come back from the commercial break. I guess we’ll see Emma and Sasha dance together during those forced trio dances and such. Not like that is what I want to see. Though, they are doing more and more dances that include Troupe members, which I’m not a fan of. If the official pair can’t perform a dance good enough on their own, then they gots to do go. It is really diluting the Free Style dance.
Oh and Jenna Johnson is going back to the Troupe, but that reads to me like she wasn’t ready for the official competition. She’ll come back when one of the other ladies needs a break.
Frankie Muniz, the Malcolm in the Middle, is being paired with Witney, so they should look cute together. He’s only 31 years old. Apparently he gave us acting to pursue a legitimate racing career. From what I’m reading, he wasn’t good at it but I’m sure he loved it.
Oh my. Pretty Little Lairs, a show I still have no interest in, ended so Sasha Pieterse is available. She’s tenth listed on the Wikipedia page. She’s one of the five Lairs though, so that’s still a get. I wonder why she’s not higher on the list, one would think that you list the five gals and then love interests or so. That show was on the air for seven seasons and also was treated to a time jump. She’s paired with Gleb, whose name, I just love to repeat once I hear it. GLEB, but I saw it super low like as if a frog would say it. It is fun. Yet another professional that Sasha could have replaced.
Poor Emma, she’s paired up with Drew Scott, of Property Brothers fame. I type “fame” but I don’t know him. I doubt he’s an amazing dancer, so why pair him with the reigning champ? Does she not get a say in who celebrity partner? I would think she gets first pick but I’m not sure who would be better suited for her. Drew is the real estate pexpert and his brother, Jonathan, is the contractor.
Val gets paired with Victoria Arlen, a former Paralympic swimmer, who developed two rare conditions known as transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyeltis. Who expect her “most important year” to be intense! Also, that year will most likely be either 2010 or 2012. Even 2016, when she started reclaiming the ability to walk!
Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcorna gets Keo, yet another guy escaping the Troupe punishment. Also, Keo’s record on the show is absolute shit. He does suffer from having to dance with the old ladies, so that doesn’t help. He’s usually out the third or fifth week. Except for his amazing season with Jodi Sweetin. They were Top 6!
Sharma gets former NBA point Guard Derek Fisher. He played for the Lakers, Warriors, Utah Jazz, Lakers again, Oklahoma City Thunder, Mavericks and ended with Thunder. he spent two years as the coach for the New York Knicks. There are times when I’m tempted to name Sharma the hottest dancer of the show but it is tough with Emma and Cheryl around.
Cheryl gets former NFL wide receiver, Terrell Owens. Makes sense these two get the sports guys, that’s who they usually get. Emma does usually get paired with reality television stars. He’s had quite the career himself – 49s, Eagles, Cowboys, Bills, Bengals, Wrangers and he practiced with the Seahawks in 2012, only.
Man, I missed Debbie Gibson’s name, she’s a big get (for this show). She is paired with Alan Bersten, who doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page! So they should go super far!
Finally, Mark Ballas gets paired with violinist Lindsey Stirling! I do enjoy Stirling, I have a Chrono Trigger channel on Pandora and her music shows up quite often. Which is irriating, as I just want Chrono Trigger music (which there are loads of sweet homages and tributes to that legendary soundtrack) on my Pandora channel but I created a Lindsey Stirling channel, as I did enjoy so many of her songs until I had to start down voting those songs on the Chrono Trigger channel. It got so bad that I heard five of her songs, in a row! Oh Pandora, how I have to train you, with every new channel. Which, I do have to admit, I become obsess with.
Have I miss Ballas? Not at all. He’s cute for his first interactions with Len but after Len gives Ballas his first piece of constructive criticism, Ballas really needs to get in line. Or have Len leave the show, I’m fine with that choice too.
Dancing will be around for at least this season and season 26. I imagine it keeps getting renewed until Season 30, who ends a show on Season 28? That is just awkward but the show might be reaching its time.
Referring to the judges, let’s hope Carrie Ann Inaba (which I still hear as Inhabor) quits becoming the female Bruno. It is getting worst, with each season. Good thing Julianne Hough is there to balance everyone.
Like every season, I’m dismissive of the cast but they quickly grow on me. Besides the ones that are clearly destine to be eliminated early and those who should have left early and don’t.
Do I miss the Macy’s dancing segments? No. I think two hours of this show, a week, is just enough.
13 pairs, with no one leaving week one and another week where no one leaves (the reason changes every season) so probably get 15 episodes out of this, plus one for the finale.
Ballas has been gone since season 22, he was second place with Paige VanZant, who I barely remember. Peta won with Nyle DiMarco.
I do recognize that Ballas returning is what knocked Sasha off the list, for some reason.
I really do hope that they quit the “partner switch up” as it is super annoying and nothing really comes out of it. I’m pretty sure that’s the new reason for the no elimination for the week, buying us an additional week of an episode.
I do look forward to Most Memorable Year and Disney Night, this year should give us a Halloween theme episode and the show should be over by the time Thanksgiving comes around, right?
I’ll be rooting for Debbie Gibson, Frankie Muniz and Lindsey Stirling, one of them is bound to be in the finale.
I’m still waiting for the dream season of James Van Der Beek, Fred Savage and of course, Dean Cain. If you haven’t watched Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23, you are missing out! Krysten Ritter and Dreama Walker are super great in it, but JVDB steals that show! His Dancing with the Stars episode is Season One’s finale, Shitagi Nashi.
Make it happen, ABC! Just pay them a bunch, and it would be amazing to have them all in one season!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 