What's up for the weekend?

[El Presidente]

What's up for the weekend?

Gorgeous blue sky Saturday here.  Quick walk with Di, some home chores, gym session and then off for a cheeky long lunch at Moda before retiring home to read the weekend newspapers, a couple of Negronis and a Cohiba VI. I don't smoke VI very often.....but I am just in the mood for a  VI today. 

Will pick up mum and dad tomorrow, DI will pick up her mum and we will have lunch together here. I am tossing up doing classic steak burgers (reverse seared and sliced wagyu tomahawk, fried egg, pickles, salad, swiss cheese, sliced beetroot, fired onions)  with fries and Champagne.  Our oldies love the classics! 

What are you up to this weekend? 

[fisherclive]

Celebrating our wedding anniversary this weekend with dinner at a Brazilian steak house.

[El Presidente]

2 minutes ago, fisherclive said:

Celebrating our wedding anniversary this weekend with dinner at a Brazilian steak house.

Happy Anniversary! 

[MrBirdman]

Outlining for exams mostly - former 1Ls will know what all the below stuff means; as a current 1L I just pretend to!

[HarveyBoulevard]

It is a real humdinger this weekend!!  First, a nice quiet evening outside after work and the only college football game I get to watch this weekend along with a stiff drink and a big cigar.  Saturday morning is when it gets serious...first, starting at 730am, tennis lessons for the 5 year old while I entertain the 9 year old and then I get to switch off the next hour for the 5 year old entertainment while the 9 year old whacks the ball.  Next, not one, but TWO kids birthday parties where parents have lost their minds and expect me to take the 5 year old to a 5 hour birthday party while the wife takes the 9 year old to a separate 5 hour birthday party.  We will rendevious at the house around 7:30pm in time to make our bedtime of 8:00pm in order to get up at the crack of ass dawn to drive down to San Diego for the balance of my sister-in-law's 'birthday weekend'.  There, I will get to hear about how I missed the Friday night birthday bonfire and the Saturday morning mimosa session and the Saturday afternoon at the wine tasting and that we don't really care about her because we could only make it down for the final alcohol fueled meal in the shape of brunch at the same resort where all the other shenanigans took place starting Friday.  Then, I get to drive home and complete the weekend with packing a fun filled couple of hours with chores that usually get lightly sprinkled over an entire weekend.

I am so excited I am about to pee myself just thinking about it.  If I am lucky, I will get to hold someone's hair while they puke.  Could be the kids from cake and ice cream consumption or the wife from the mimosas...WHO KNOWS?!  That is the excitement of it all.  Did I mention the only sport I watch is college football and that I will miss every single game on Saturday?  I didn't want to leave that part out in all the excitement.  This is the 6th straight weekend with birthday parties and I get THREE of them this weekend.  I am so lucky I should run out and get a lotto ticket.

Oh, and I almost forgot, I get to have my meeting with the FBI Monday morning due to what I can only imagine are some creative shenanigans of a prior group of asshats I used to associate with!!

God, I can't believe I get to have this much fun, it should be illegal!!!

[Ford2112]

I get to move into a new condominium this week

[Russell]

It’s my birthday tomorrow. I’ll be spending time with family and smoking something nice!

[KCCubano]

43 minutes ago, HarveyBoulevard said:

It is a real humdinger this weekend!!  First, a nice quiet evening outside after work and the only college football game I get to watch this weekend along with a stiff drink and a big cigar.  Saturday morning is when it gets serious...first, starting at 730am, tennis lessons for the 5 year old while I entertain the 9 year old and then I get to switch off the next hour for the 5 year old entertainment while the 9 year old whacks the ball.  Next, not one, but TWO kids birthday parties where parents have lost their minds and expect me to take the 5 year old to a 5 hour birthday party while the wife takes the 9 year old to a separate 5 hour birthday party.  We will rendevious at the house around 7:30pm in time to make our bedtime of 8:00pm in order to get up at the crack of ass dawn to drive down to San Diego for the balance of my sister-in-law's 'birthday weekend'.  There, I will get to hear about how I missed the Friday night birthday bonfire and the Saturday morning mimosa session and the Saturday afternoon at the wine tasting and that we don't really care about her because we could only make it down for the final alcohol fueled meal in the shape of brunch at the same resort where all the other shenanigans took place starting Friday.  Then, I get to drive home and complete the weekend with packing a fun filled couple of hours with chores that usually get lightly sprinkled over an entire weekend.

I am so excited I am about to pee myself just thinking about it.  If I am lucky, I will get to hold someone's hair while they puke.  Could be the kids from cake and ice cream consumption or the wife from the mimosas...WHO KNOWS?!  That is the excitement of it all.  Did I mention the only sport I watch is college football and that I will miss every single game on Saturday?  I didn't want to leave that part out in all the excitement.  This is the 6th straight weekend with birthday parties and I get THREE of them this weekend.  I am so lucky I should run out and get a lotto ticket.

Oh, and I almost forgot, I get to have my meeting with the FBI Monday morning due to what I can only imagine are some creative shenanigans of a prior group of asshats I used to associate with!!

God, I can't believe I get to have this much fun, it should be illegal!!!

I will be watching plenty of college football! Kids bday parties are now just a distant memory...thank god. 

[Greenhorn2]

Wife rules, whatever she says.

[Nevrknow]

57 minutes ago, Greenhorn2 said:

Wife rules, whatever she says.

That was last week putting the footers in for the new house. THIS weekend is new injector cups in the red truck with my stepson and son in law. Their idea of " helping me " is we hand him a wrench or 2, drink his bourbon and smoke his cigars. No complaints tho. May smoke 3 racks of beef ribs. That's my new meat drug. Damnit they are GREAT!

[MPhillips]

Have a few days off so I decided to try to hone my rusty brisket skills. 

 

[Chibearsv]

Finished wrapping the Cigarden pavillion in tarp so I can enjoy a smoke outside now that it's cold (snow flurries today).  It's also a good shelter to set up the smoker for turkey on Thanksgiving. 

Tomorrow, one of my best friends is coming over after recovering from heart valve replacement and triple bypass surgery to watch the Bears game.  Since we don't have high expectations for the Bears this year, it shouldn't be too tough on him. 😁  It'll be great to see him up and about.

[GVan]

It's hurricane clean-up weekend --  part of "normal" in Florida when living on the water!

Nicole's southern eye wall went about 2 miles just north of us in Stuart at about 2 to 3 AM.  We saw approx. 70 mph winds at the house - highest recorded was 86 mph at Cape Canaveral about 90 miles north of us.  The eye was about 35 miles wide as it came ashore.  The northwest quadrant of any hurricane is the worst which we missed the majority of that portion of the storm.  The first picture was taken when Nicole was centerd over Grand Bahamas, about 100 miles from the house, and the northwest quadrant was blowing the water across the ocean and into the St. Lucie River (~ 25 mph winds at the house).  The dock is usually about 2 to 3" above high tide to give you a sense of the storm surge  from a Cat 1 - the power pole went three-quarters underwater just prior to the eye wall coming ashore. Second picture is a welcome sunrise as the storm has already passed and everything including the boats were ok but coated with salt.  

Just plant debris to be cleaned up this weekend and of course I had to inspect, dry-out, and silicone every power connection down to the boats prior to returning power back to the dock.  At least while doing clean-up I get entertained by the Stuart Air Show which is < 1 mile on the other side of the house.  All the planes use the St. Lucie River Bay as their turnaround.  Pretty cool when the military jets shake the house on a low pass.  Third picture is USAF F-16 Demo Team, fourth picture is Navy "Rhino" F/A-18E/F Super Hornet team and finally a military generational flyover - which is pretty cool.

[Nevrknow]

2 hours ago, GVan said:

It's hurricane clean-up weekend --  part of "normal" in Florida when living on the water!

Nicole's southern eye wall went about 2 miles just north of us in Stuart at about 2 to 3 AM.  We saw approx. 70 mph winds at the house - highest recorded was 86 mph at Cape Canaveral about 90 miles north of us.  The eye was about 35 miles wide as it came ashore.  The northwest quadrant of any hurricane is the worst which we missed the majority of that portion of the storm.  The first picture was taken when Nicole was centerd over Grand Bahamas, about 100 miles from the house, and the northwest quadrant was blowing the water across the ocean and into the St. Lucie River (~ 25 mph winds at the house).  The dock is usually about 2 to 3" above high tide to give you a sense of the storm surge  from a Cat 1 - the power pole went three-quarters underwater just prior to the eye wall coming ashore. Second picture is a welcome sunrise as the storm has already passed and everything including the boats were ok but coated with salt.  

Just plant debris to be cleaned up this weekend and of course I had to inspect, dry-out, and silicone every power connection down to the boats prior to returning power back to the dock.  At least while doing clean-up I get entertained by the Stuart Air Show which is < 1 mile on the other side of the house.  All the planes use the St. Lucie River Bay as their turnaround.  Pretty cool when the military jets shake the house on a low pass.  Third picture is USAF F-16 Demo Team, fourth picture is Navy "Rhino" F/A-18E/F Super Hornet team and finally a military generational flyover - which is pretty cool.

Even with the cleanup it looks like you came out good. 👍🏻 
 

Instead of silicone, find some NP1. Doesn't separate like silicone. A tad harder to apply ( to me anyway ) but I haven't had touch up anything in years. Reminds me to go check my own advice now. 😂

[Greenhorn2]

14 hours ago, Nevrknow said:

That was last week putting the footers in for the new house. THIS weekend is new injector cups in the red truck with my stepson and son in law. Their idea of " helping me " is we hand him a wrench or 2, drink his bourbon and smoke his cigars. No complaints tho. May smoke 3 racks of beef ribs. That's my new meat drug. Damnit they are GREAT!

That's your plan, it may change with wife's plans! 

[jakebarnes]

18 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

Outlining for exams mostly - former 1Ls will know what all the below stuff means; as a current 1L I just pretend to!

Getting weird flashbacks.

In that vein, our group of friends were debating last weekend if any of us could sit and pass the bar with no studying today. My wife is confident she could (she has a conlaw/property/litigation practice area). The rest of us are in m&a, ip, or finance...hard no from us. 

[El Hoze]

I’m in the same boat (pun intended) as @GVan though his boat is alot bigger! 👍🏻 Hurricane clean up! I am up in Vero Beach, Florida on the water about 1/2 a mile from the beach side of a barrier island. We were lucky I feel like given that the center of the hurricane hit land very close to where we live. I was watching from Chicago as I needed to be there for work and was definitely relieved when my neighbor told me all was pretty much OK. 

[GVan]

1 minute ago, El Hoze said:

I’m in the same boat (pun intended) as @GVan though his boat is alot bigger! 👍🏻 Hurricane clean up! I am up in Vero Beach, Florida on the water about 1/2 a mile from the beach side of a barrier island. We were lucky I feel like given that the center of the hurricane hit land very close to where we live. I was watching from Chicago as I needed to be there for work and was definitely relieved when my neighbor told me all was pretty much OK. 

Glad everything was ok - you were definitely dead-center in the hurricanes eye!

[ha_banos]

Was visiting in laws and then parents yesterday. Today .... Xmas tree going up! 🎄🎅 #wiferules

 

[El Hoze]

3 hours ago, ha_banos said:

Was visiting in laws and then parents yesterday. Today .... Xmas tree going up! 🎄🎅 #wiferules

man, you guys are late! My wife is Dominican, there is a saying in DR “there are two seasons: Summer and Christmas.” They don’t celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving like we do so jumping the gun doesn’t feel as odd. We had our tree up before Halloween. It is great seeing people’s faces when you have a Xmas tree with a few skeletons on it and pumpkins around the base.

I actually do not mind. I have a son who is almost 4 and I love some holiday cheer. It just means I can start drinking scotch again and dipping back into my holiday cigars while listening to Xmas music. Meanwhile I live in Florida and it is still like 85F here and humid. 

[ha_banos]

6 hours ago, El Hoze said:

man, you guys are late! My wife is Dominican, there is a saying in DR “there are two seasons: Summer and Christmas.” They don’t celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving like we do so jumping the gun doesn’t feel as odd. We had our tree up before Halloween. It is great seeing people’s faces when you have a Xmas tree with a few skeletons on it and pumpkins around the base.

I actually do not mind. I have a son who is almost 4 and I love some holiday cheer. It just means I can start drinking scotch again and dipping back into my holiday cigars while listening to Xmas music. Meanwhile I live in Florida and it is still like 85F here and humid. 

That's actually quite a relief to hear. I thought I was just going to get banned.

 

Ok. This'll do it. One dodgy knee and bad shoulder later. It's out. So she can start on it. Now where's that Christmas cheer... 🥃

 

[Capn_Jackson]

Posting a day late. Smoked some great chicken thighs and had some new friends over for dinner. Good times!