this is howie do it

right now, i’m drinking a fresh made margarita and watching the remote digital thermometer tell me that the carne asada is 57 degrees in the center on the grill outside. we need to get to 160 so that we don’t get the e. coli.

today was a roller coaster of amusement and idiocy. in the morning, we finished removing the last post of the fence we tore down in our backyard. then we decided to grab breakfast and do some shopping. the first two places we wanted to go for breakfast turned out to be packed due to the race going on in town today. so we opted for a place called “buck & lil’s bbq,” which offered breakfast. we each ordered and paid for the pancake breakfast and waited. and waited. and watched other people who came in after us get their food. and waited some more. after about 50 minutes, the waitress came out with a receipt and told us that our order had already been cooked. good, except she was stating this as if we already ate it and she was not obligated to bring out the food we were waiting for. so i went and got my money back and we went to quizno’s (since, by that time it was lunch). when we got home, i wrote a terrible review on yelp.com. it was funny.

also, we went to bed, bath, and beyond to pick up a gift for our friends who are getting married this coming saturday. we went up to the customer service desk and asked for the registry list. i had him search under the groom’s name and he couldn’t find it. i had him search under the bride’s name and he found it. then, he was like, “oh yeah, there’s the groom’s name, but he has it spelled wrong. is it ‘gofrey’?” and i was like, “no, his name is geoffrey.” and the guy was like, “well, it’s spelled g-e-o-f-f-r-e-y in here. like ‘gofrey’.” i was like, “that’s strange” and i didn’t mean the part about why the guy is 40 and working at bed, bath, and beyond.