I got Name-Dropped!

"[The Jester]. . .concocts the best Mai Tai outside the Hawaiian Islands."
--Scottsdale Examiner

Yeah, it was pretty much a puff piece, but I'm still taking the quote and running with it.

I Got A Grill!

Not just any grill, mind you. I went and got myself a Big Green Egg. It's sort of the home version of the Chinese wood-fired oven we use at work. The main difference is that the BGE goes back to Japan, while the Chinese wood-fired oven is, well... Chinese. I have some beer-butt chicken going right now (wherein one takes a can of beer and jams it up a chicken's back end, creating an impromptu vertical roaster) and some baked potatoes. After that, I'm going to turn up the heat and bake a loaf of bread. There was temptation to also make some peach cobbler, but I'll save that for another time. Wish me luck!