Have a Little Vagina

The seafood extravaganza on Saturday was freakin' awesome if I do say so myself:
---5lbs of crab
---5.5 lbs of shrimp
---1lb of mussels
---Baby red potatoes
---Corn on the cob
---Smoked sausage

I boiled it all up, made some dipping sauce for the potatoes, some garlic butter butter fer the crab & mussels, and was loved by all. I ate way too much, but I suppose eating way too much seafood is better than eating way too much pie, or cake, or deep fried Twinkies.

"Aww, look at 'em. They look like little vaginas." I almost choked on whatever was in my gullet at the time. The Warden enjoyed the laughter that resulted from her observation and took great pleasure in encouraging me, Rachel, her husband, and Rachel's father to "Have another little vagina. They're delicious." So I just had to snap a picture of one of the little buggers. (that's my hand, ain't it purty?)

This is the beginning of a little creation that's a cross between pico de gallo and ceviche: Tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalapeños, diced avocado, chopped/boiled shrimp, flat Tecate beer, and garlic. Mucho delicious-o.

This is what was left after our gallant attempt to eat every last freakin' bit of the food.






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The Warden went to vote in our local primaries yesterday. What she found there bothered both of us.

Instead of the usual ONE table where voters are ID’d and/or checked against the registered voters list before being allowed to vote, there were TWO tables: Republican and Democrat. Neither of us had ever seen this before. When she asked a worker about it, they gave her some lame-ass excuse about how the order of the candidates on those “trusty” electronicalistic voting machines was mixed.

To top things off, the candidates listed on those electronicalistic voting machines did not indicate their party affiliation, which I also found plain suspicious.

Any comments? Anyone else experience this?

Oh, and I didn’t vote yesterday because of some odd Texas law that says if I vote in the primaries, I can’t vote for my Independent candidate. This, even though he’s not even on the freakin’ ballot yet (petitioning started at midnight).

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Memory Du Jour:
Circa 1987The Warden & I went to see a boxing match (Buddy McGirt vs. Meldrick Taylor) at one of the casinos and got, oh, just a little pie-eyed. We gambled after the fight, then decided to go somewhere else. We drove off in search of a suitable local bar to continue our imbibing. During our meandering, we saw a street that looked familiar, then another. After the second street, we realized they were streets from the game Monopoly! Baltic, Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, etc! It was too cool, and much fun.

I don’t know if it was because we were just shitfaced, or we were really that stupid, but until then, we didn’t know that the streets on the Monopoly board were from Atlantic City. I’d seen a couple of the railroads in the general area, but never the streets. Anyway…so we drove around for the rest of our evening trying to find every street from the game. I don’t remember if we actually did, but we had a hell of a fun time…from what I remember.

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Quote of the Day:
"People don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if we were concerned about the security for the United States of America." —George W. Bush, on the deal to hand over U.S. port security, Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2006