denny's, lenny and carl

Denny's. And you know that that means moons over my hammy. The name doesn't really make much sense to me, except that there is ham involved.

I think I have at least two friends that are famous, or on the verge. The other one is brandon sanderson. He is a hit author, will likely get a movie or two made before too long, and who knows, may get really, really famous very shortly. Me and brandon used to come to this very denny's and talk. Often we would talk about my next great programming project. You may notice that those sites look much the same. Meanwhile brandon is working it. Good job brandon! Those cheese fries and shakes must have pushed you over the edge.

If you're pretty good at java, c++, image processing, or even programming generally, the church is hiring. If you're good at cheese fries and the shakes . . .


Cameron likes the simpsons. Suddenly, when simpsons quotes enter my mind, I can filter them through, and am pretty dang sure cameron will be there with me. Pretty well daily we walk through an episode for drew. Sure drew just loves that! Your fingers are too . . . fat! Cameron knows the lines better than I do.

Sitting by the counter were


first I thought they were for sale, then I realized they were just for use.

when worlds collide

I have been thinking that we could have another blog where each day we have to eat lunch from a coupon. Sometimes ideas are better left as ideas.

It is perhaps unfortunate that you can't short local businesses, because it hit me today that first time coupon book appearers are pretty good candidates to go out of business.

Today, we went to the hot dog king. They say that they have the best hot dogs in the world. Wow, on our own state street. Drew pretty well agreed. I got a chili cheese dog and it was good, but I think that there are several other places in the world with better offerings.

Yes, we ate at 7-11 and the hot dog king within like a week. Cameron even ate at hot dog king.

Sadly, hot dog king was nearly empty when we went. I am betting that there are several lunch hours that no one comes in, and off-lunch hours must be dreadful. I wonder if I could work there from my work during such empty times.

Sometimes when driving around, seeing all the places that are likely destined for a chapter of some sort, I get sad. Eating at such a place isn't much better.

And a cinnamon roll.

smaller continents need not apply

you will guru the day!

I read blogs of a couple famous people, and since they have you know, readers, and those readers send them email, they are able to kind of get their blog posts nearly for free. The readers send emails, and via simple cut and paste, nearly all their daily entry is written for them. With a simple quip here and there, on they go with their famous, undoubtedly happy lives.

In my rather non-famous life, I have no such luxuries. That said, I do have a pretty killer camera phone, and I have a few photos sitting around which have no corresponding blog post, so here we go. Think I will break these photos into different entries.

A week-ish ago drew was meeting a friend down in provo, and cameron and I tagged along. Guru's was the place. I guess it is healthy or something. Drew's friend is a vegetarian, and guru's was pretty much made for him. They did have some pretty good steak and chicken tacos.

For some reason, I had 7-11 napkins in my pocket, and thought they looked cool on the table next to the money. Guru's is one of those "we're not really your waiter, but please tip well" places. Other such places include fudruckers and sonic. Can't really decide which of the two I think is worse. At fudruckers they don't deliver food, and I think they don't even get your water. "Anything I can do for you?" You mean anything tip-worthy!

At sonic they don't really do anything different then say, wendy's and I don't recall ever tipping at wendy's. Whatever happened to wendy's?

My, look at the fancy wall and the many empty chairs. Wonder if those two things go together. We might have been there a little late, but there you go.
And finally, now you need not leave the restaurant, to find a tree to hug!

twenty-one?

Yeah, we ate at 7-11. I had two hot dogs and a slurpee. My favorites in order were probably the slurpee, the first hot dog, not getting the second hot dog, perhaps another slurpee, and yes, the second hot dog. For me, some foods just go well together. French toast and milk, steak and orange gatorade, and yeah, 7-11 hot dogs (with free chili and free cheese) and a slurpee.

Did I mention the free chili and cheese? I do wonder sometimes how far you could push that. What if I fill the whole container? What if I place the container in a bucket and then fill it? How about a garbage can? F150? F350? What if there were more than two trucks I could mention?

Sometimes, people tell me things. The other day "the dentist" wanted to see me, perhaps during lunchtime. We had exchanged an email or two and chatted on the phone a bit, so I guess he felt like he could open up to me. He said something like, "now just because it's going to be lunchtime, don't think that we're going to have any food. I could maybe bring some sandwiches. Peanut butter and honey?" Again, more than a little strange.

Today at 7-11 a couple folks chatted me up a bit. A xerox copy repair man who would rather be a programmer, and was going back to get his IT degree. He was saying that was maybe the first time he had seen someone that a picture of a cheese machine. I told him about this blog, and maybe he is reading this today. Hola, xerox guy! I would probably aim towards java, and I think this is a good book.

One of the 7-11 workers told me about his mom's garden, that she grew hot stuff that he eventually ate half of one of them. It was really hot. "Do you like hot stuff?"

Why did drew eat at two places today? Now that's a good question.

Thats a Wrap

It bothers me that they call the place New York Burrito when what it is they are selling is not my idea of a burrito. Evidently they ARE all burritos as per Dictionary.com which says a burrito is "noun: a flour tortilla folded around a filling". But it still bothers me.
It was good food. Didn't quite fill us up, but that is why they are located right by Great Harvest Bread that sells cinnamon rolls larger than the spare tire in the trunk of Cameron's Honda that you can grab for dessert.
Another thing that bothered me just a tad is that my "burrito" was supposed to be healthy, but it wasn't (my lunch's nutritional facts). Especially when you add the dessert (yum, they don't list it with the frosting, ha!)
It could be worse, it could be Jack-in-box's excuse for a burrito which is a flour tortilla folded around a breakfast, putting you well over your cholesterol limit for the day before it even gets started.

cold mug please

Must mean more to other folks, but I sure do like the occasional frosty mug of a&w root beer. I used to go a couple tuesday a month to state street's own a&w/kfc combo. Not sure how those two folks ended up together, but if you ever wished for a bucket of chicken AND a frosty mug of a&w with a single credit card swipe, wishes can come true.

This particular flavor of said combo is run by a guy nice enough seeming fellow. I was about to mention his name, but since drew (ages ago) said we should have nothing personal in the blog, I have mentioned, I believe nary a name. Now, I didn't go to high school with him, like I did the formerly unmentioned owner of our local chick-fill-a, but I am starting to feel like I know old troy a bit. His employees seem to like working for him, he seems to like what he does, his customers seem to like him, and there you go. Today he made the rounds just to ask us if everything was alright. Almost seemed like he really meant it.

Goatee tuesday means you get a free drink on tuesdays if you have a goatee. In the past, I pushed the envelope a bit on length (shortness), but I got the free drinks. These days, as my lackbeard self, I can't really even begin to ask. The routine for first timers goes a little something like this

"Would you like a free drink with that?"
"Huh?"
"Because it's . . ."
"goatee tuesday! woot! woot!" (said in unison by several of the workers)

It's perhaps a touch more than a little strange.