Blog Number 261

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I thought I would log in tonight and squeeze one more blog into the month of January.  We had black bean soup a few nights this week (including the night we reheated the leftovers).  The kids like black bean soup about as well as the sausage / potato soup we had last week.  Tonight however we did not have soup as today was grocery day.  Typically this means that we have what looked good at the grocery store (totally based on the wife's opinion).  On grocery day, almost anything is possible for dinner and I will admit that I do look forward to it even if whatever ends up on my plate is not a success.  Here was the menu for dinner...

• Fried catfish
• Fried potatoes
• Steamed broccoli
• French bread (not pictured below)
• Milk

Looks good, doesn't it?  The breading for the fish was our version of Shake-n-Bake (corn meal, spices, buttermilk and a ziplock baggy) and the broccoli was fresh (not frozen).  We did not have any desert as we finished off the biscotti this morning with our coffee.

After bath duty (it was my turn tonight) we listed to music on SeeqPod (similar to imeem but sill in beta).  Since the son was a baby, I have been singing "Surfin' Bird" to him and also to the daughter.  If you are not familiar with this song or cannot remember it, just go to seeqpod and search for "Surfin Bird Trashmen" and give it a quick listen.  The song is quite meaningless and as the son grew older and older he thought more and more that I had to have invented this song in my head.  I tried to convince him otherwise but it did no good.  That is, until tonight when he heard The Trashmen version.  He listened with his mouth wide open and this look on his face that indicated that he thought that I had somehow rented studio time and had a band record this song that I made up and then put it on the internet.  I would have done all this just to prove I was right and that I was not lying about the song being real.  My son is like that, he is convinced at times that I will go to no end to fool him.  He is quite justified in thinking this way of course in that I do trick him and his sister quite often.  This time though, he finally ended up admitting that the man on the internet was not me and the song was a real song.

My daughter still thinks that I made up the words to "Hanky Panky" (by Tommy James & the Shondells)  though.  I will save that for another day.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon