So it has been about a month, a little more actually :), and it has just been a rough month.  Health and stress have been at all time lows and highs respectively.  I have not been gaming as much as I used to. I have three games from gamefly sitting here and haven't even opened 2 of the envelopes.  I wonder if gaming is finally passing me by.  I am a little sad if that is the case as it has been a part of my life for just under 30 years.

 

On a good note we have been riding more as a family and went to a local park that has a 7 mile bike trail and rode it and found out that it ends a mere 2 miles from the beach.  It was really cool. The kids loved it and we loved the family time.  We got Ricky a "new" bike.  We found that on his 12" bike he had to constantly work and never got to coast.  So our town had a town wide yard sale and we saw a 16" bike for 7 bucks and decided to give it a shot and he loves it he can go so much faster. On his old bike he was only able to peddle at 5 miles and hour, on his new bike he is able to go 9 miles an hour, huge difference. 

We have a standing order for 6 cases of Ricky's yogurts every Friday night, that is our routine I finish work and then go pick up his yogurts, his lifeblood. We get there I find someone in Dairy and ask for the special order and they bring it out. Well tonight I ask and they don't have it.

I tell the kid it better be back there go look again.

He looks and it is not there he goes to find the dairy manager and they look together and it is not there.

They get the store manager and he is a prick and says there is nothing that I can do about it the buyer is gone for the day.

I have to lead him down the path to get this resolved that they will be there at least on Monday morning and I take whatever they have on the shelf (8 yogurts) He has 2 left at home so that makes 10

That will get him through lunchtime tomorrow. I have calls in the medford(5) jenkindstown (7) and Middletown(4) and the numbers in the parenthesis are the ones they have in the store set aside for me.

So my saturday will be driving all over NJ and PA getting yogurts.

The worst part about this is Ricky heard me talking and when he got home he had one yogurt and said "Daddy, I am full, I have had enough we can keep the other ones so I can eat tomorrow" I did everything I could not to cry right there. He is so amazing. I told him not to worry about it that Daddy would make sure we got them tomorrow you eat as many as you want.

 

Edit :  We called them on Saturday and they had his yogurts in and we spoke to Elian and promissed, again, that they would be there on fridays from now on. 

Wings and College basketball well, this saturday anyway.

 

I want to try some new flavors of wings, Garlic Parmesan, Onion Pepper(with Cayanne, Chipotle and Black Peppers) and of course my standard sauce.  I am thinking I can have 5-6 different flavors and then be content, have a wing tasting party or something.  As I type this I think I want to try a buffalo BBQ sauce. We will see how that one works out.

 

Well off to our weekly whole foods 100.00 yogurt trip. Going to stop at the Buffallo farm as well and get Ricky's 2 week supply of Buffalo meat. 

 

 

So the wings went well I made 5 varieties tonight.

Basic Buffalo wings - good as usual

Garlic Parmesan - These came out surprisingly well, Very impressed and were had by everyone.

Onion Pepper - Too much onion flavor not enough pepper, need to adjust the formula onto something here maybe.

Hawt - Had three kinds of peppers, chipotle, cayanne and Black Pepper - this was a dissapointment as I was expecting this to be a very interesting flavor and it was just there. It will not be coming back.

Buffalo BBQ "Sweet Heat" -  Now this was to me the victor of the evening, Take my home made BBQ sauce and some of the Buffalo Sauce and mix together, I was expecting a buffalo flavor with a hint of BBQ sauce and what I got was a BBQ wing with the Buffalo goodness. It was awesome. These are now my new favorite wing.

 

All in all good effort and I am pleased as I now have 2 new wing flavors added to the mix and will have to come up with some others. My ultimate goal is to have 10 different flavors, we shall see how that goes. 

So we took Ricky over to the park where they have a mile loop on thinking he would get some more little riding time with us running behind him, however I was brave and got him started and just stopped.  He made it about 1000 ft then stopped at his mother.  It was amazing, the sense of pride, and sense of awe was fantastic. I couldn't believe that my little boy was riding a bike without training wheels and no one holding onto him. It was awesome.

So I have now allowed the created of a new league and a new franchise.

Since I am doing this with XML and not a database I am trying to remove all the backend of the xml creation and updating to specific classes for it that way they in turn could be updated to handle with a database if I am finding that XML is not working for me. As for tutorials, I have the blogengine.net source on my machine and that is proving to provide me so far with all the XML related examples I could ask for.

 

So My son Ricky has Eosinaphilic Esophogitus, an eating disorder, but not in the way that most people think.  He can't eat food. Well that's not entirely true, he can't eat a lot of foods, in fact most foods. Right now he is eating Soy and Buffalo. He has a scope tomorrow and I hate these.

 

I will in the future explain more about his disease and the amazing person that he is.