Carnegies Deli New York

I finally made it to carnegies deli and I wasn't dissapointed. I always saw the pictures on TV and really wanted to try it. I couldn't believe anyone could pile that much meat on a sandwich?
It was raining hard outside bur I hady umbrella and determined to find this place and give it a try. I read that they are a cash only business, so I checked my wallet and was god to go. I was staying in midtown and only had to go around the corner. I spotted it across the road and thought it would be bigger? I walked in and was taken to some tables that already had six people sitting there. Everything was faced pace and I knew u was un for a ride. I was sitting next to two girls and they just for there sandwich, turckey and cornedbeef qith Swiss cheese and a side of thousand island. They were aharing and didn't know how to approach it? It really looked good and wanted to try it.
I ordered a heiniken and they brought it with a dish od pickles. Two regular dill and two that were quick brined? They were like cucumbers and pickels? Really good.
I watched as they brought out amaIng looking cheese cakes, some with strawberries, others with chocolate. I'm thinking if my sandwich doesn't stack up, I'm having some of that.
Then they being out my sandwich, the Woody Allen, corned beef and pastrami on rye. I knew I wasn't going to be having dessert. They had squeeze bottles of mustard, a knife and fork and I was getting after it. I couldn't believe how tender the cornedbeef was. No fat and melt in my mouth, it tasted better than I ever expected. I realized I have never tasted real corned beef.
I started into the pastrami and once again realized that I have been missing out on the real deal.
I'm watching everyone around me and see that knowone is finishing is finishing a half sandwich. I continue on my quest to finish the sandwich, people around me bagging up things and taking them. I see huge portions of coleslaw, turkey burgers, open face ham and gravy.
I know it's all coming to and end. Four pickles, a beer, six slices of rye and at least a pound of meet.
It was awesome and and can't fit another bit.
I live to eat onther day. I'm looking forward to the rueben on my next visit.

December round completes the 2009 year

It's complete, atleast one round played each month of the year. It was a great day at Wingpoint and now can only hope for another day. It's a great day when I can play in December in Utah.
I'm looking forward to playing in St. George AM in January.
I'm also committed to blogging my trips next year.

New post from iPhone app, new office plant.

GeoTagged, [N40.77801, E111.88038]

I got a new plant in my office. Pretty exciting, we now have a plant service that takes care of them.
This new app seems to be working? Looking forward to posting from my phone.

Testing blog post from iPhone

Working in our cages and ready to go workout. Don't see a way to insert image?
Got the full version app and now I'm trying to figure out the photos.

First day out on my new pontoon boat at Jordanelle

The sleepness nights are over, as I finally got to go fishing on my new pontoon boat that Jill got me for my birthday! Thank's for the early present sweetheart, I love it!
I haven't been able to sleep at night with all the crazy thoughts of all the fish I was going to catch and what I was going to catch them on? Where am I going to put my poles, am I going to sink in the water, am I to big for this boat, am I going to fall off the seat, is it going to tip over?
Well, I made it the lake last night, put everything together and in the water I went. The wind was blowing a little bit, as I used the oars and my kick fins to get across the bay. It took a while to get the hang of things and I had to adjust the oars a couple of times before I was rowing like a pro. The only problem was, I lost one of my new gloves that feel out of my pocket and two of my good fly's blew out and were floating in the water and I wasn't able to get them back.
I finally got my poles in the water and within 30 minutes had my first fish.
I was really excited, it was like I didn't believe there were fish in the lake and then to catch one, was awesome. I was thinking to myself, I remember this feeling of catching fish and it was so fun the feel the fish giving a good fight.
It was alot of fun getting this fish in the net, it didn't like getting to close to the boat.

The next fish came 20 Minutes later and I had thoughts of a great night of fishing.

After landing the second, the fishing slowed down and I was able to get my way back to the shore. I threw out my pole and caught a third fish as I was putting my things away.

Real fun day and look forward to many more.

Next week it's out to Flaming Gorge for the Villa Fishing Derby. Can't wait to post the photos of some big winning fish.

Dad and Jill chop the winnings as the Big Winners at Dave and Jamie’s Poker night.

There was no bluffing either one of these guys, they were both running good. Not even Patrick “the thinker” could take them down. (Although he tried) :-)

What a great night of Poker and Jamie’s excellent Cafe Rio food and birthday cake “German Chocolate” for Dave.

It was fun to meet some new people that work with Dave and play with some old friends as well.

Next Poker night is at Mark and Jill’s.

Jazz lose by 1 to Minnesota Friday April 3, 2009

I was lucky enough to get a ticket to the game through work. I was suppose to be taking a client to the game with the boss, but it didn't work out so the boss gave the tickets to some others in the office and I got to keep a ticket. Really nice seats in the lower bowl, Row 18.
Joel (friend at work) had his daughter's performing before the game and halftime. Not sure which ones are them?
The fun part was sitting behind the Jazz bench during pre game and some of the 1st quarter.
A couple hightlights of the night were meeting Frank Layden before the game and shaking his hand. I ran into him again at half time in the restroom, but I didn't shake his hand again.
I did enjoy a beer and some popcorn and a good game when the Jazz were scoring, otherwise it was a bad loss, as D-Will missed the last second shot to win.

Baby Lorena at Home with Mom - 1 week old

Here are some new photos of baby lorena after 1 week. Lori finally got to bring Lorena home after the hospital watched her for a fever. Lorena is doing great, and adapting to her new surroundings. She is such a beautiful little baby and looks so cute in the soft blankets.

Welcome New Baby Girl - Lorena Karen Kitchen

Jill and I got to visit Lori and Rogers new baby, Lorena last night in American Fork hospital. She is a beautiful little girl with lots of dark hair.
We are so happy that everything is ok with her and that she should going home Friday morning.
It was fun to hold a new pretty new baby girl.

She was looking around, very alert with big dark eyes.
We are looking forward to holding her some more.

Craft Night Breakfast Recipes

After Jill had her sisters and girls over for a night of scrap booking, Movies and girl talk, we had to have a fitting breakfast. Hear are a couple of recipes that are great to have for breakfast.

Craft Night Pancakes
This is my variation of sleep over pancakes.
Whisk together in a large bowl.
3 Cups all-purpose flour
6 Tablespoons sugar
3 Tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt

Combine in another bowl.
2 Cups milk
1 Cup buttermilk
6 Tablespoons butter, melted (one stick)
4 Eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the liquid ingredients together and quickly mix into the dry ingredients. Don’t over mix. Use a ¼ Cup batter for each pancake. This is a large batch for about 24 pancakes. This is a good one to half for a smaller group.

Traditional Pancake with butter and syrup.


My Favorite was Strawberry sauce and whipped cream!

Craft Night Breakfast Casserole
Put this together the night before breakfast.
2 lb Jimmy Dean Sausage
¾ shredded cheddar mix cheese
9 slices of white bread (cut off crust and cube bread)
4 eggs
2 ½ Cups milk
1 Can cream of mushroom soup

Put the cubed bread in a 9 x 12 casserole dish and mix with ½ the cheese. Mix together 2 cups of the milk and eggs in a separate bowl. Brown the Sausage and drain. Mix sausage with bread in casserole dish. Pour the milk/egg mixture over sausage/bread/cheese. Cover all with remaining cheese. Mix ½ cup milk with Cream of mushroom soup and spread over top of dish. Cover with plastic wrap and set in fridge over night.
In the morning preheat oven to 325 and cook for 1 ½ hours.

This may not be the most appetizing photo, but the taste is awesome. Enjoy!

Casino Royal - Texas Holdem British Style - Mate!

After a morning in the office I took a quick tour of London's sites. I Started with a taxi ride to Harrods, and a walking tour of the Queens Calvary, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, The National Gallery, SOHO (Theater District), Dinner at the Italian Restaurant (Ristorante Cappuccetto, a stop by the Empire Casino and a Tube (Underground) ride back to London Tower Station.

So I started with a Cab ride from the office to Harrods and got to see a lot of the historical sites of London and it started with a drive by of past the London Eye.

It's pretty amazing to see things like Big Ben and Parliament.

In between there were a lot of places that I really didn't know what they were? But I did know this was the Royal Palace.
 
Then into Harrods Department store. All of this area on the West side is quit different than the business section where the office is. I understand that this store is around 1 Million Square feet. I've been in some high end stores and this one is tops. Everything you would could think of was in there. The food market areas were pretty cool.

There was Fish, Meats, Gelato, Sushi, Chocolate, Italian and more and more and more. Everything was very pricey and pretty fun to look at.
   
 
After walking around and up and down through Harrods it was down the street to get on the underground and see more things.

All of the areas on the west side were more tourists and people from everywhere. 
 
I wasn't familiar with the area and how to find my way but I did come across some interesting  things on my way to Trafalgar Square.
 


I found the Royal Calvary grounds where I was able to take a free tour of the grounds and a little museum.


 
Can you believe I was really there, here.

There are a lot of cool statues and things all over.
 
I made it to Trafalgar square and the National Museum.
 



I will have to post all the photos on the web page, but there were a lot of nice buildings and things to see here.
I was able to take a free tour of the National Museum and they have some amazing art on display. The big thing going on is the Titans display. They are trying to raise 100 million pounds to by two paintings that are on display. The Titans.

I then ended up in SOHO that Theatre district. It is the Broadway of London. Lots of theatres and shops.

I also walked through China Town. How is it that all big cities have a China Town? You have to love the Peking Ducks in the window.


Dinner was really good, they have the marinated olives to start, then bowl of Pasta Fuggoili (Bean soup with some pasta) I really liked it. The main course was a pizza and finished off with a yummy Cappuccino.
I was by myself again and they sat a couple next to me, I was able to start a conversation and he was a very nice gentleman and his wife. they were from North West England, near the border of Wales. He was a golfer and they had been to the states and visited Zions and and things. It was nice to talk with someone. When they were leaving he said, "don't you want to take a picture of us"?  Here you go
  
Next is the Casino Royal part of things. I couldn't believe that I found a Casino so I had to take a look. As always there were a lot of Orientals. I asked if they played Texas Holdem and they pointed me through the doors. They just happen to be starting a tournament with a 20 pound buy in and 20 pound re-buys. I said to myself that I would give it a try and that I would do the re-buys.
I was a little different that Vegas, It was more like a home game and they didn't have a dealer and everybody took turn dealing, cutting and shuffling.
There were five tables and about 60 people, the blinds went up every ten minutes and after a bit there were no more re-buys. I doubled up a couple times with straights on the river and some crazy pairs. They were very good players and thought that going all in was an automatic way to win? Before I knew it we were down to one table. We moved to a center table and they had a dealer. Felt a lot more like normal at this point, I was the short stack and I wasn't getting any cards, but  some people went off  going all in and I was able to sit back and two people went out before me. I ended up in 7th place and winning 70 pounds.
I was pretty excited to win and spend some time playing.
I made to the Underground and a ride back to the hotel. It was fun to play and really  different. Glad to make it back to the hotel, my poor feet were worn out.