I get food poisoning too often

Dealing with food poisoning yet again. It's the worst affliction ever and the third time I've dealt with this in 3 years. I do drop 10 lbs. every time this happens so I guess I should look at it as a great way to stay in shape.

Is it too early to talk football? How about some predictions? Don't take any of this to heart, I'm always... ALWAYS wrong. See my Brett Favre post at the beginning of camp last year.

1) The Packers are winning the division this year. We really hit our stride last year, minus that horrendous defensive collapse against Arizona. Oh man, remember that final interception for the touchdown? That was awful.

If I were to think of any weaknesses on this team I'd have to go with lack of depth on the corners. Offensive line doesn't seem dramatically improved. We signed that Bulaga guy today. From what I hear the guy won't be ready to seriously contribute until next year. Defensive line is pretty weak too. Hopefully the 3-4 scheme can continue to make up for that.

2) The Patriots are going to suck and it will be a beautiful thing to watch. Tom Brady will start to pout.

3) Not too afraid of the Cowboys team everyone's talking about. Seems like the same old story to me.

4) Ungh, back to the bathroom again.

5) I will win fantasy football this year. I have a brilliant strategy this year. As many packers as possible.

6) Higgins will post a detailed comment on this blog post.

In other news, went to the EAA show yesterday. That stunt plane stuff is pretty cool but I wouldn't pay 36 bucks to see it again. Hung around the camp sites. Bunch of tents and trailers with dusty roads. Kind of reminded me of a refugee camp. You got guys with 4 million dollar RVs next to some guy in a pup tent. Funny mix of people. I'd debate camping there next year but don't know if it'd be worth the cost. I'd rather camp somewhere that isn't a field in Oshkosh.

That's all I got for now. I'm gonna try to go to work. Wish me luck!

GOD DAMN IT!!!

You guys said it was a stupid idea. Now someone beat me to it.

www.chilililis.com

This pisses me off more than that time I came up with the Foreman grill with detatchable dishwasher safe plates. That was in the store two years later. I need to patent my slim jim and dorito dust idea now. I think there maybe some trademark issues there...

Tomorrow I'm going to watch airplanes with hicks. Katie did this in high school and is meeting a bunch of these people to go bowling or something? Not too excited. It's gonna be hot too. I hate it when it's hot.

Chili Lili's, I hope you suck.

Some quick brewer thoughts

They suck.

Brady St. festival is upon us...

There is one shift I dread every year. Brady St. days at Bosley on Brady. We're talking 10 hours of absolute chaos. Important to stay caffeinated on this one. But you got to pace it out. Instead of the large red bull I think I'm going to have to go with a couple small ones and consume in 3 hour increments. To put this thing into perspective, on an absolutely crazy saturday night we do around 6500 in sales. Last years festival put us over 10000. Screaming customers, overfilled cash drawers, singing drag queens... We take the bus to this one because there's absolutely no where to park.

But wait, rain? PLEASE STAY AROUND RAIN! RAIN HARD!!!!! Damn, 30% chance. Not looking like mother nature is gonna bail me out of this one. Here we go!

gross but genius product ideas

Some food marketing ideas...

1) Selling dorito dust. There's just not enough dust in a bag of doritos. You get five super loaded chips and the rest are just blah... You should be able to buy extra dorito dust, dump in in the bag and shake it up. Awesome. You could even do something crazy like mixing cool ranch dorito dust with sour cream. Same holds true for jalepeno krunchers. NEEDS MORE DUST!
2) Slim Jim beef rubs. Slim jims are delicious but you can't in your right mind sit there and eat 10 of them. But if you created a slim jim steak it'd be fantastic. Or slim jim chickens! My god, imagine this meal... A roasted slim jim chicken with nacho dorito dust infused mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus seasoned with a cool ranch butter. HA!
3) Anyone see Inception yet?

That's what I can think of for now, but I know I got more thoughts in my head. I'll keep you posted.

INCEPTION!

You have to see it, it is the best movie ever made. There is literally two straight hours of HOLY S*** style intensity. Mind blowing movie. That is all. Watch it and post your thoughts. Must see it in theaters.

HEAT! Real chili! Golf?

It is way too hot. Every day is over 80. Is that normal for Wisconsin? Can't we get one 75? I was all hardcore at the beginning of the summer. "Katie, we are never going to turn on this air conditioner." SAVE THE PLANET!... The air has been on non stop the past two weeks. I failed.

You ever leave the real chili onions out over night? Oh my god is that pungent. Why do they give you so many onions? No one could possibly eat that many. Give out less onions and more cheese real chili. Even if you throw them out they still make the kitchen reak.

They also have a t-shirt and bumper sticker out that says, "Real chili, preventing milwaukee's hangovers since 1970 something." I'd horribly disagree. I think it should read, "Real chili, adding diarrhea, heart burn, and onion breath to your already terrible hangover." Like I've said before, no alcohol is necessary. Real chili is one of the few foods capable of causing the food hangover. Yet I still find time to stop there once every two weeks. They have been keeping us stocked on napkins for a couple years.

I hate when ESPN covers something like golf or tennis. I wake up every day hoping to catch the barely watchable ESPN's first take. Then I got to see this British open. Who watches the first 2 rounds? Who cares? Nothing happens. Actually I bet I know who loves this. Every single McNamara. They go crazy over this sport. "So I got fitted for the new calaways last weekend!" "oh I've used those before, great clubs." "How's lefty doing!" "We should try to play this course." "If only I started playing in my 20s." Haha. That's my favorite one. If only I had those 10 extra years of experience... I'd be just as good as I am now.

Now don't get angry with me McNamaras. Just saying. Oh and why is St. Andrews supposed to be the most majestic beautiful course in golf? I know it's old and all but it looks pretty horrid. I am a fan of John Daly's pants though... Ok just saw an overhead shot of the course, that looked pretty cool.

That's all for now, hopefully more tomorrow.

I am doing this again

I've gotten complaints over my lack of blogging. Someone even threatened to remove this page from their favorites list. I will try to do this more often now.

I blame my absence on Katie. It is impossible for me to get at this computer because she is always busy creating the most amazing virtual farms/frontiers/sorority lifestyles. Her facebook gaming status is incredible. I'm pretty sure she has more virtual boyfriends, sheep, and barns than all of you.

So... you all are probably wondering what's going on in Dan's whirlwind life. Not too exciting. I wake up, accomplish little, go to work, accomplish little afterwards. Trying to break free of a second shift lifestyle but it's a rough economy and not so many people are hiring. I get paid pretty well at the restaurant. Katie and I were saving to buy a new car... even started looking at autotrader.com! Then it rained really hard last night and we had two major leaks in the house. What the hell am I supposed to do about that? Pretty sure it isn't supposed to rain in my living room. Whatever the problem is I'm sure it will cost a lot. The cats loved it though.

A couple restaurant ideas!

1) This one is gonna be a hit. Counter style service, maybe a couple side tables... Serving nothing but chili. But unlike real chili I'd go with 10 different varieties. Texas green chili, habenero hell fire, cincinnati style... you get the idea. I'd go with a chili pepper themed decor with the greatest hot sauce collection in the midwest. Maybe do some ungodly spicy one and make a challenge with it. Eat this thing and your photo's on the wall. Then I could get the man vs. food guy to stop buy. Only would have to staff 2 or 3 people, low overhead with a freezable inventory. Would you go there?

2) Ok, this one is much more of a gamble. Going with a Euro gastropub theme. Thinking von trier like decor. Wooden tables, food served on cutting board style plates with european family style whole game type meals. Think whole animals! Suckling pig, whole roasted chicken/pheasant, whole fish. Combine that with a killer beer list and one hell of a chef and KABOOM! Culinary masterpiece! Only problem is that Wisconsin diners are a bunch of meat and potato pansies who are terrified of trying anything different. Probably would have to offer walleye fries and brandy old fashions. Would you go there?

Well I don't want to record all my genius in one post. Got to have ammo for the next one. Hopefully I can fire some more thoughts out this week. Rock on!

Oh you like my new background? I think it makes me look like an indiana jones type person. I'd love to be an indiana jones type guy.