Rating Restaurants Like I Do Poker Hands

Rating Restaurants like Poker Hands To date, my restaurant reviews have not contained any weightings to differentiate what place are worth a special trip versus places that merely register as decent and so on.  I could replicate the Michelin Guide and assign star ratings or the five star scale that Yelp and other services use. …

Christmas Dinner 2012

Cooked Christmas dinner with Theresa and my Mom. Braised spicy beef shank with braised eggs, Thousand Year old egg with tofu, braised daikon, steamed striped black bass with ginger and green onion, black bean and garlic spare ribs with taro, spicy cucumber salad, sweet and sour cucumber salad, napa cabbaga stir fried with dried shrimp. …

GMC Acadia AWD

We reserved a mid size/intermediate car with Hertz on our recent trip to Vegas and when I went to go pick it up at the counter in Caesar’s, all they had were 2 SUVs, both GMC Acadias .  While it’s was a nice “upgrade”, we really did not need the extra passenger room, but swapping …

Lesson Learned: Always Back Up Before Upgrading

So stupidly, I hit the “upgrade” to WordPress 3.5 in the admin panel without first backing up my blog and it broke the uploading capability in the theme that I was using.  So I spent all evening reinstalling WordPress. While I had the CSS customizations saved off, I had to redo a couple of lengthy blog posts …