Week 10: Guitar Hero How week 10 already. I have always wanted to play the guitar, this week I am going to teach myself and be able to play something by the end of the week.
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Week 9: Day 7: Sauerkraut After 7 days of 7 new foods not sure which I liked best, the Tamale or the Sauerkraut. Now this I do wish I had tried a long time ago. I can see myself eating plenty of sausages in the future with this.
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Week 9: Day 6: Brie Cheese I have eaten more Cheddar cheese in the last ten years than most people will eat in a lifetime. But that is about it, Cheddar. Sure I have had American on burgers, Provolone on subs and Mozzarella on pizza, but when it comes to a hunk of block cheese, Cheddar is all I have ever had. So I decided to try Brie.
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Week 9: Day 5: Olives Easily the worst food of the week. I sat down to eat four of them, well, didn’t quite make it.
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Week 9: Day 4: Runny Eggs Ewww is there anything that sounds more disgusting than runny eggs? Eggs are supposed to be cooked. Give me an omelet, scramble eggs (dry) or hard boiled, you can keep anything with a runny wet yolk. But then I actually tried them. Hmmmm not bad.
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Week 9: Day 3: Tamale Go ahead, mock away. I took it with the canned clam chowder, I can take it with my not knowing how to eat a tamale. OK so I always thought a Tamale was something stuffed inside a tomato. Turns out I was not even close. Shows you how much Mexican food I eat. So when I got this thing wrapped in something I figured you ate the wrap. Well I find out later that the something is a corn husk and no, you are not supposed to eat it. Good thing because I tried and was failing miserably.
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Week 9: New foods for me: Sushi Sushi, no way was I ever going to try that. If you asked me just a week ago that is what I would have said. Thanks to my broker Jay Thompson and SEO guru Emily Leach (thanks for picking up the tab Emily) today I actually tried it. The results… well mixed, but not as bad as I thought they would be.
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Week 9: New foods for me: Clam Chowder How does someone born and raised in New England get to his late 30’s (or maybe a little older) and never have clam chowder? By looking at clams when he was young, getting disgusted and for the rest of his life just saying “I don’t like that.” I am a boring eater, buffalo wings, bacon cheese burger, steak, omelets and ceasar salad’s are about the extent of my diet. There are dozens of foods I have said I don’t like, but have never tried before. This week, I am trying some of them.
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Week 8: The 12 year Walden Pond Challenge is Done
Not my most exciting or engaging weekly challenge, but one that went right down to the wire. Part of the problem is the book is such a slow read it was hard to put in as much time as was needed. I needed to do a 4-hour working in yard session while listening to the book on iPod just to give me a shot of completing it. But it is a very interesting book and it is amazing how much things have not changed.
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Week 8: The 12 year Walden Pond Challenge
1998 Jessica and I decided we were not going to have kids. We decided we wanted to travel the country, living in one city a year and them moving on. We stated playing with the idea in New Hampshire where we lived and did some tourist things and loved it.
One of those trips was to Walden Pond. We wanted the minimalist lifestyle with no kids and the freedom and decided to let’s do it, and put the house on the market. And no exaggeration, but before the sign was in the front yard we found out she was pregnant. Someone had different plans for us. And now we have 4.
While at Walden’s Pond I purchased the book. I have been wanting to read it now for 11-12 years and have never done so. This weekend I am going camping with my son (first father-son adventure) and need a challenge that I can do in the woods for a full weekend. So why not finish something that has been on my to-do list for over a decade.
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