This is basically my venerable old whisky punch cake slightly revamped to be a wee bit more patriotic.

First, grab your good old lemon cake mix from the store and all the stuff that goes in it save 1/2 cup of water. Substitute the missing water with 1/2 cup of good old American Rye Whiskey and add a 1/2 tsp of cloves. Cook it up per the directions on the box in a bunt pan.

For a topping, take a stick of butter, 1/2 cup of Rye Whiskey and 1/2 cup of brown sugar and the zest of one lemon. Combine in a small sauce pan on a medium heat. Stir until all the butter is melted and it's just about to a boil, reduce heat and let it reduce down to a thick syrup. After the cake is cool, drizzle the reduction over the top all artistic like.

Eat.

Simple as that.

So We've been living here most of Casey's life. I do all most all of the cooking and enjoy a good bake once and a while. I was sitting in the living room figuring on how to cook the chicken thighs up since the BBQ done went dry and noticed a wee door under the oven I'd never noticed before. I though to myself "Hot damn, I got's me a broiler!" So I preheat the oven up, laid out the chicken on a rack and slide out the wee door only to discover, I don't have a broiler, I've a drawer built into my oven. Why the hell would you design an oven with a drawer where the broiler shoud aught to be? Oh well, I guess it's baked chicken tonight.

• 08:09 @knitgenie even worse, it IS Monday now! #

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• 18:14 A bit shagged from helping friends pack up the moving van but had a lot of fun in the doing. Now dinner with my girls. Life is good. #
• 09:00 I forgot to take my glutamin yesterday so now I'm sore. Tomorrow it will hurt. Curse this crappy memory of mine. #

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• 09:06 @cayswann flash mobs are cool. #

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• 09:40 @acdntlpoet "SQUIREL!" #
• 11:16 @acdntlpoet That's works well. Don't know if it is 'you' but hell, I live in a trailer. #
• 11:27 @acdntlpoet maybe it's my display but it looked like sea foam green. Is that not the case? It'll look good at any rate. #
• 11:51 @acdntlpoet that'd explain it. I never saw you two a sea foam kind of folks. #
• 14:23 @OCParks isn't that poison 'oak' not 'Ivy'? Not that you should play in either. #

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• 15:00 @acdntlpoet well you could have gone with 'short bus' so I think you did well. #
• 15:05 I wonder; if I'm a hourly exempt employee why do they track my vacation hourly. I got docked 1 hr vacation time for a Monday holiday. Odd. #
• 16:29 @knitgenie Apparently it's above board as long as it's in the employee handbook, and is surely is. #

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• 14:27 @acdntlpoet charcoal grey with hot rod red trim. Just say'n: The neighbors will love it! #
• 15:38 @acdntlpoet seriously though, there is an American Craftsman style house in down town that is painted that way and it looks frek'n awsome. #
• 16:07 @acdntlpoet Who you kidding? You've got the Ametyville Horror house. I can't think of a better stle for a goth house save high Victorian. :P #

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• 21:32 @knitgenie Don't skip the extras... Good stuff there too. #
• 06:44 @acdntlpoet ah, the historical documentary on the plague was shaweet! #
• 09:34 AAAAH!!!! Adobe Acrobat Blows Huge Donkey Dongs!!!!!! I feel better now. #

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• 07:21 Kind of glad to be back at work. I need the rest. #

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• 11:58 Just having a Ruby's shake with the family for Dad's day. Good times. #

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• 12:22 @acdntlpoet but electrical repairs in the rain are so much more exciting. #

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• 07:52 Saw my first Muslim Redneck today. Details on Facebook later. :) #
• 11:14 @acdntlpoet speciesist! #

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• 16:55 Picked up Casey and said thanks and good by to her teacher. She thinks she'll be back next year but she has no certainty of it. Must be hard #

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• 17:24 @acdntlpoet it was damn good to see you again. Safe jouney. #
• 08:55 @acdntlpoet that does seem to be the biggest technical problem with Macs; their users. ;P #
• 15:01 I took tomorrow off. I tend towards the grumpy if I have to work on the 17th of June. Now, what to do with my me day? #

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• 07:29 At work less most of the soreness from the tourney excepting my neck and the goos egg on my left arm. Of course some more sleep'd be nice. #
• 10:37 Glad I don't live in Iran at the moment. I think it'll get worse before it stabilizes. #

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It's taken a few days to get comfortable with the fact but comfortable or not on Saturday, at Gyldenholt's Anniversary, I was inducted into the (Caidan) Order of the Deulist. I felt unworthy as I really don't think I can fight at the level that most of the deulists I know (but as was pointed out to me at the time the order isn't necessarily prowess based). I felt so honored by the recognition of the Crown and that of my peers. This filled me with great satisfaction. I was so shocked that I was in a fog throughout and hardly can remember a thing after I heard my name called.
As Guiles read out the text for the award I stood looking about the audience looking to see who was there that is at the deulist level not once thinking it could have been me. I noticed my household was unexpectedly at court too (including my wife which is even more significant) all of which should have been a clue but I still didn't get it. As a wise man later pointed out, if you are standing at court looking about for whom ever is likely to get the award being called out and you don't see anyone it's probably you.
Thank you Caid. I will endeavor to be the deulist you seem to think I am.

• 11:18 So freaking soar. My thumb, my back, my legs and my feet. Must have been a good day yesterday. #

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• 18:53 Dropping off Casey (not feeling 100%) and heading out to the sticks. #

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• 15:19 Sneak sneak sneak - Whohoo! #

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