This man loves it.

I’ve tried sushi many times, but for whatever reason it does not go down without some force. I’d be horrible on one of those reality dare-you-to-eat-it shows.

Met up with former Roommate Steve at a wedding this weekend.

the sexiest bartending duo in Springfield, Il. Even if they are retired.

Happy birthday old man.

Frequent commenter on Gotshoo, Nattie has gone in the wine business. She emailed me the other day to let me know that she is doing at-home wine tastings. Now I’ll be honest. I’ve partied plenty with Nattie. More in our hey-day; a little less in the last few years. But the one thing I can tell you is she loves her wine. And if memory serves me right, her favorite wine is Ecco Domani. Maybe that’s change.

Mrs. Shoo and I are considering have a wine party. It would be fun to have someone who actually knew what they were talking about tell us about the wine other than us picking it out by the pretty label. Anyone for drinks??

If you want to get a hold of Natalie: http://www.myttv.com/Natalie13626

Or: nataliettv -at}- yahoo {dot– com

Got to say that this is the best shredder in the world. I threw two bags of old bills, credit card offers, coupons, and other random material at it this weekend. I’ve actually gone through two shredders before this one. Both generic. The Fellowes is one heck of a shredder.

* Note: Shameless plug because SternO, frequent, or used to be frequent, commentor works for Fellowes. If you ever seen the ad displays in Best Buy or Staples, he did them. Best shredder ever.

My good blog buddy Brad Ward was quoted in Guy Kawasaki’s new book Reality Check. And really he wasn’t quoted, but was the subject for the chapter “The Art of Sucking Up” (p.269). For those not connected to the nerd community, Kawasaki is a widely known technology evangelist and one of the Apple employees responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984.

Brad had written Kawasaki in a plea to have his site bloghighed.org moved up in rankings on Kawasaki’s education.alltop.com, a link aggregator site similar to spfldbloggers.com. Bloghighed is a site that aggregates blogs focused on higher education. I wrote the software that powers Bloghighed. It’s also the same software that powers Spfldbloggers. So in a sense of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, I feel like I got a little tip of the hat in Reality Check.

Pretty cool when a friend of yours is quoted in a book. Even cooler, when you know you had a little to do with it.

Above one of my good friends from high school, Neal. Actually professor Neal. One of his kids tagged this photo of him on Facebook. I found it hilarious because this was, and obviously still, Neal’s style. Even funnier is that he’s a professor of English, which I vividly remember him in our English class BS’ing on many papers and being able to talk in class about something he hadn’t even read. He was good at it. Guess that’s why he’s the teacher now.

This weekend Mrs. Shoo and I headed down to Paducah Kentucky for our good friend John Romang’s art show. He’s been featured many times on Gotshoo. We love his art, especially when one of the pieces features Mrs. Shoo’s shoes.

The show was hosted in a condo being renovated. I would throw in some art terminology how the mood was set, but I have no idea. I’ll stick to taking photos. It was just a really cool place for an art show.

More photos after the break.
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Congratulations Phil and Katherine! No, Phil is not expecting, but they got engaged today! About time ol’ man.

I took this just before everyone hit the hill. Talk about a one in a million shot!

More shots to follow.

This post is a little late in coming, but a good cook blog can never be rushed? Last year for Thanksgiving we snapped a ‘family’ photo and posted it for the intertubes to see. This year we did the same, but Thanksgiving put us in a coma of turkey and we forgot to hit the post button.

Well, we may of missed the Thanksgiving post, but GTG loves turkey so much that she made her first turkey tonight and invited our parents over and our favorite Berry. So in last year’s Thanksgiving tradition, here are things we are thankful for (these are all coming from me, GTG may update the post later on):

1. A cutie-pa-tootie wife (see last year), who’ll slave night and day over the best turkey in the world (this way up) then go to Target and buy me pajama pants because I need pajama pants.

2. Two ‘boys’ that act like real life brothers. They fight, they race down stairs, they get in trouble.

3. A new set of family members that are awesome. A brother-in-law who is going to be a sound engineer and can talk music and computers. Parent-in-laws that are just way too good to a Mr. and Mrs. Shoo.

4. My family, who will kick in a hand, a buck, or word for any situation. Possibly two hands with the future DIY projects coming up.

5. Colorado, some day we will be back.

6. Our friends in high and low places, where they always know our name.

7. Work.

8. A brother that put on a great best man speech.

9. A happy family.

Tereasa shows us how it’s done.

GTG and I went over to our friends’ house for dinner and game night. Played some Cranium which is nothing but chick related questions. Yes, the girls won.

Afterwards we were introduced to, the gift that is on everyone’s wish list this year, Guitar Hero. I rocked missed a lot of notes. GTG handled the buttons a little better. I totally forget how well she played because she gloated the whole way home and sent out a massive text message (Stillwagon style) stating that I sucked. In other words, give me an hour alone with the guitar and I will be better competition.

Santa, please send Guitar Hero for the Wii. Thanks, Shoo.

We are in possession of an original piece of art by John Romang based off of one the photos I took on our Colorado trip this summer. It was given as a wedding gift.

Marjorie, Betsy, Robbie, David, and Sada all chipped in and got us two dog beds as a wedding gift. I’ll let the picture speak for itself, but it looks like they are enjoying their gift.

There is a flap that goes over the pillow so they can burrow underneath. Bud has been the only one able to figure it out but needs a little help to get under the slip.

GTG invited this guy over for dinner then bolted to buy new shoes. I felt sorry and fed him.

He is sad.