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One good beer deserves another. I didn’t enjoy this as much as the Black Butte, but it was still damn good. The photo I like a lot more. Remote flashes just open up a whole new world of photographic fun…

Black Butte Porter.  First sip left a good enough impression that I wanted to take its picture…and remember to buy it again!

Hello wandering reader. You are, no doubt, here because you are looking for something desperately enough to make it all the way to page 10 of your search results, where you found me. I know it is you, because I’m quite sure that my three regular readers from long ago have long since stopped checking for any new posts. However, I am not dead. Just quiet. I don’t actually have anything to say, but I have been taking a lot of photos recently (Mostly using my wonderful girlfriend’s Nikon D50), so I thought I’d share a few here.

I saw this lucky bamboo at Ikea today for $3. I thought it looked cool, and they had the perfect vase for it for only $0.79. I got to wondering how you make bamboo curl like that, so I went and looked it up.  So, someone, somewhere, has been patiently and slowly rotating my bamboo around for at least a year, until it was shipped to Burbank so I could buy it for $3. I’m often amazed at just how cheap some things are. Then again, perhaps they fed it some kind of bamboo super-grow fertilizer and it grows a couple of inches in a month instead of a couple per year.

Paraglider at Torrey Pines Glider Port

The pier at Paradise Cove in Malibu. Went for breakfast here last week. Was a pretty nice place, ate breakfast at a table on the sand, then walked on the beach for a bit.

More on my Flickr page. Just click any of the photos.

So it seems Trader Joe’s is opening a store in Richmond (Short Pump, I think). Believe me when I say, that this is good news for any one in Richmond! You will now be able to go to TJ’s and purchase all the ingredients to make one of my favorite quick dinners:

What you need:

- Chicken Breasts, sliced into strips
- Some green pepper, sliced
- Can of sliced bamboo shoots
- Trader Joe’s Red Thai Curry Sauce
- Optionally, some chopped up garlic

That’s it. Just stir fry the chicken in a Wok or other such skillet with some peanut oil (or oil of your choice, and I like to season the oil with garlic prior to adding the chicken). Stir fry the Veggies, put the chicken back in (if you ever took it out!) , pour the sauce over it, and let it heat through. In the mean time, I hope, you’ve been cooking some rice. I also hope you’ve gotten the water content just right, and have a neat-o rice scoop so you can get that perfect restaurant looking ball of sticky rice to serve with it.

Enjoy! I’ve become a recipe blog, I guess. I had to add a new category for it! I have about as much topic focus as I have readers around here, it seems.