The Kirks’ Wine Party

Last night was Steve and Tammy Kirks annual wine tasting party. It’s a great event and one we very much enjoy. Last night was more laid back than in previous years, but it was still quite fun. The concept is very simple. Each person/couple brings a bottle of wine which gets encased in a paper bag with a letter written …

Election Night Bloggers Meeting

Went to my first Springfield bloggers meeting in a long time to get my fix of random political conversation. I figured election night would make for an interesting meeting. We started as the polls closed in Springfield and Patton Alley Pub has a TV set to CNN so we can watch results. More updates throughout the evening. Update on the …

Restored from Backup & Future Kerner.net Plans

After a hacking incident I’ve finally gotten around to restoring the weblog from a backup. Not sure exactly what happened, but I know that I used to have a relatively unsecure webdav configuration in place for the web root of this site – it’s gone now. No other security issues found on the machine, and apache logs indicate that the …

Las Vegas!

I got into Vegas last night around 9pm. MAX officially starts today with preconference activities – I’ve got the User Group event this afternoon. Not sure what the plan is for the day, but I don’t have to be anywhere until about 4 pm. I know there’s fasion show mall about a block away, so I can do some shopping. …

Cake Day

Saturday night Sarah and I hung out with Jeni and a bunch of her friends for the second annual Cake Day. What is Cake Day you ask? It’s the fourth Saturday in September and it serves as an excuse to bake a cake. This isn’t just any cake though, it’s an excuse to bake an exceptional cake – decorated to …

Arrrgh, it be talk like a pirate day

So go about yer business as normal, but throw in lots of Arrrrrghs, Avast, and of course you shouldn’t say yes, you should say "Aye", for added fun talk about your food coming from the bung hole. Take this quiz: You are The Cap’n! Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man …

Simplicity

It’s been more than a month since my last post. There’s not much excuse for it other than I’ve been busy. The last month has been an insane sprint to prepare things for this fall at Schweitzer, get our new Saturday night worship service off the ground (it had a great start on the 9th), and help clean up some …

Summer Tapas

IMG_1229.JPG Originally uploaded by kerner. I would want it to be summer all year if it wasn’t so darn hot. We recently made a meal of tapas – little bites, or appetizer size dishes. Two salads and crusty bread with prosciutto. The top salad is fresh tomoatoes from the garden, fresh mozarella and basil. The bottom grape tomatoes, cucumber, and …

Mmm Pesto

IMG_1226.JPG Originally uploaded by kerner. It’s been a couple of weeks, but we made some pesto from the basil in our garden. One of my favorite ways to use pesto is as a very simple pasta sauce. That night we ate rigatoni with fresh cherry tomatoes from our garden, roasted red pepper, and grilled chicken. All combined with a fresh …

Long Rides

One thing I really like about biking is taking long rides. I haven’t done any in quite awhile, but today I pushed myself a bit further than I probably should have with the amount of riding I’ve been doing lately. Until today I’ve ridden about 35 miles a week on average for the past 3-4 weeks. This includes 8-10 mile …

Shifting focus?

I’ve been pondering switching the focus of this blog for awhile now. I haven’t been posting much in the food arena, mainly because I don’t seem to be as passionate about it as I once was. I’m thinking about moving to more of a general focus of my life to the posts – there will still be food posts, in …