Brandi Carlile posts a preview of her next album. Let’s dance to that.

I make myself look younger by trimming my head hairs:

There we go. Now I look young again. None of this 30 crap. 🙂

Holly continues to turn into a zombie.

Hey! Let’s dance to celebrate the turning into a zombie:

When life gives you guavas, make jelly. Or when a friend give you guavas, make jelly. One of those.

When life gives you darts, stick them to your child’s forehead. Oh come on. Like you never?

Labor day require grilling. Im pretty sure I saw it in the constitution.

Can you go wrong with NY steaks covered in blue cheese, tomato and basil? I think not.

If you’re gonna grill some NY steaks, should you do it in a sexy manner? I think so.

And the result…. sexy, delicious, OMG, roll-your-eyes-back-in-your-head steaks.

Believe me. Holly and I were way more excited about these steaks than Gavin was. He did eat a lot of the steak though. Along with carrots and cheesy poofs.

Can you be any more excited about dinner? Yes you can. See?

And the icing on the cake? The Märzen that I brewed a few weeks back is finally finished and is the perfect compliment to tonight’s dinner. Oh how I wish I could share. Sort of. 🙂

Labor Day weekend. Oh happy day.

Friday at Tai Kwon Do, a sister reviews vocabulary with her little brother of about 5 years old.

sister: Ok, let’s go over your words. What does ‘brilliant’ mean?
little brother: bright
sister: Good. What does ‘argument’ mean?
brother: fight.
sister: good. Hey, look at me. We need to go over your words. What does ‘kindness’ mean?
brother: ….
sister: What does ‘kindness” mean?
brother: … (looking around the room)
sister: (punches brother’s leg) What does ‘kindness’ mean?
brother: ………….. (starts to slide around and away)
sister: (Punch, punch. Grabs legs and pulls hard. Punch) WHAT DOES ‘KINDNESS’ MEAN?

I feel a peaceful weekend coming on. I think I’ll be able to bottle my beer on Sunday. Tomorrow we have plans to go to the beach. Gavin is enjoying playing with his castle and pirate ship. Holly is working on her quilts. Leif is sleeping. All seems well. Tonight, new episodes of Monk and Psych come on. I think I’ll sit and watch them with a beer in hand. I just feel nice and relaxed.

So to celebrate my 30th birthday, I spent 1/4 of the day at Gordon Biersch eating burgers and drinking beer. Then I spent 1/4 of the day (and a few hours of the following day) at the Karaoke Hut in Honolulu singing and hanging out with good friends (along with a bottle of good sake and some strange drink mixed up by my buddy N). The result? Holly finds me passed out in my underwear the following morning and kindly documents the occasion for posterity.