Best and Worst of the Weekend

My weekend started early as I left work at 11:00 in order to make it to the airport in time. My dad and I were headed off to DC to visit George and watch the Hoya’s spring football game. Over the last few years Georgetown has become one of my favorite places to visit. Even before I boarded the plane I knew that I was going to have a great weekend. Georgetown has just about everything that the Bean Spiller needs to have a good time—family, sports, shopping, and food. Really, what more could I ask for? While the entire trip was fabulous, I am going to stick to the new format and rules established week. So here we go…The Best and Worst of my DC Weekend:

Best of the Weekend: My Friday evening hangout session with George and my dad wins this week’s best of the weekend award. We had dinner at Filamino’s, an authentic Italian restaurant on Wisconsin Street. Not sure if any of my readers have eaten there before but it is absolutely amazing. They have two “pasta mamas” in the front of the restaurant who are making fresh pasta through out the night. As a wannabe cook I really enjoyed watching them work; sometimes I wish I had become a chef! I ordered gnocchi with a vodka sauce and it was delicious. I could only eat about half my dish as they give you enough to feed a small army. The boys and I followed up dinner with a movie. We saw Date Night, which stars Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. I laughed the entire time and definitely enjoyed the movie more than my dates. I thought it was really funny and worth seeing if you are in the mood for a comedy. Overall, it was a relaxing night and great to spend time with the Bear and my dad.

Honorable Mention:
1. Tomb’s chocolate milkshake. Probably the best milk shake I have ever had. Was a nice treat after the 2nd best bbq pork sandwich I have ever had. Mrs. Arndt's still holds the top spot.

2. Monument Tour with my dad. See pictures above.

3. Finally finishing my book The Lost Symbol. Good read if you are looking for a new book and enjoyed his previous work

4. Cousin Blake teaching us how to walk the slip line

5. Tutto Pasta with Kris

Gosh, I could list about 10 more things from this weekend. It was a great couple days. Thanks George!

Worst of the Weekend:

The person sitting near us on the plane that ripped a series of farts that stunk the plane up for about 15 minutes straight. Brutal. As if it is not bad enough that we are all sharing the same stale air, but then you add stinky gas to the equation and it can become quite uncomfortable. Not sure I have to say much else but please if you have gas on a plane think about the people that are sitting so close to you.

Honorable Mention:

1. Female sports commentators. Doris Burke is now doing NBA games. She just does not get it done for me.

2. Fatty, not crispy bacon.

3. The 20 degree temperature drop from Friday to Saturday and the extreme gusts of wind.
There you have it. My DC weekend in a nutshell. Can’t wait to hear what everyone else was up to back in the Midwest.

Don’t be scared, post a comment,

The Bean Spiller

Best and Worst of the Weekend-April 12, 2010

Well, after a few rounds of my best and worst of the weekend feature, I will be switching up my style. I have received some criticism from one of my readers about the formatting of this write-up. This particular reader will remain nameless, but for anyone that is curious he or she is a tall, red head that resides in Chicago. You may or may not know who I am talking about so I will give you one more clue. He or she is also a wannabe baller and a frequent blog commentator. And, we all know that despite my pleading over the last few months there are very few people who actually comment. So to please my readers and attempt to keep everyone happy…the new format will include only 1 best and 1 worst of the weekend. It will be followed by an honorable mention of activities, events, and/or occurrences that were close but did not quite make the cut. I hope this is more acceptable to the reader described above and to the group as a whole. Enough already, here is my best and worst of the weekend:

Best of the Weekend: 1st Lake house cookout of the season. The family, Kris, Michelle, Gram, and Aunt Jeanie all gathered at the lake house for the first of many spring/summer cookouts. Ooops, I almost forgot Scout. My dad had the music going and deck furniture in place on this perfect spring evening. My mom was preparing a spread of fabulous food including fresh fruit, summer salad with perfectly ripened avocados, and deliciously juicy hamburgers. Marko manned the grill and did an excellent job of cooking mine to well done perfection. My gram and I took down Kris and Aunt Jeanie in a tightly contested game of euchre, while Michelle and Laura researched potential Brewer games and tennis rackets. Overall, it was a great evening and I am looking forward to many more days/nights at 617!

Honorable Mention:
1. Laredo’s guacamole. Simply amazing. The guacamole lady did not disappoint as she prepared a mortar full of avocado heaven right in front of our table.
2. First baseball game of the season. Despite the Brewers loss to the Cardinals this made the list, as it was fun to return to the ballpark and to hang out with Kris, Carrie, Austin, Bri, and Jess. Great burgers provide by Austin. Yum!
3. The Masters. Lefty and Tiger did not disappoint.
4. The weather.

Worst of the Weekend: Hot Tub Time Machine. I am almost embarrassed to admit that I spent $7 and my Friday evening at this movie. But there is no shame here on the Bean Spiller’s page. I probably do not have to elaborate, but as you can imagine this movie was pretty terrible. While there were a few funny the lines, the acting and story were disappointing.

Honorable Mention:
1. No college basketball on tv. This is a very difficult time for me as you can all imagine. I am already counting down the days until early November.
2. Complete abandonment of my diet. Whoops!

Another weekend has come and gone. Once again, it was filled with way more bests than worsts. Thanks to all the people that made this weekend great. Looking forward to hearing about everyone else’s best and worsts of the weekend.

Fear the Deer,

The Bean Spiller

Best and worst of the weekend

Once again this was a weekend filled with numerous fantastic activities. I've decided to do a bullet point list of my bests of the weekend. Enjoy!

1. George was home for the weekend and he allowed me to tag along with him and his crew.
2. Lent ended so I got to have candy for the first time in 40 days. I celebrated with fun dip and peeps. I ended up with a pretty bad tummy ache.
3. Murphs mom's tollhouse bars. These were the best batch ever. The bottoms were still gooey and delicious plus the chocolate was still warm and soft. Fabulous. I ate 4.5 bars. Not good.
4. My 5-0 record on the euchre table. Holla! Mongrel you were a great parnter!
5. Chorizo tacos served by the red headed waitress at Tubbs. That would be Laura for those of you that don't know.
6. The final four games especially those involving butler.

With all those bests there were only a few worsts of the weekend and even these are a stretch.
1. My 0-5 record on the beer pong table.
2. Huggy bear getting a little to close to his injured player. The stroking of face and inch gap between mouths lasted entirely too long and was quite uncomfortable for all involved.
3. The weekend only being 2 days.
4. The cubs getting hammered 16-5. Or was it 16-6? Either way it was a butt kicking and not the way any team should start off a season. (ps I know this was Monday and not technically on the weekend but I had to vent)

Well I think that's about it for this weekend. Hope everyone had a great Easter and that the Easter bunny was as good to you as he was to me.

Peeps are better than cadbury eggs,

The bean spiller


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A Thousand Hits

Shout out to myself the Bean Spiller and all my readers. I've reached the thousand hit marker and I could not be more excited. Woot woot, round of applause for me. When I started this blog a couple months ago I was incredibly nervous that no one would read it or find it interesting enough to check back after his/her initial read. Looks like my nerves were not completely warranted. Well, I guess I only know that one part of that statement is true. I suppose all of you readers could think it is boring; but, if that were the case I probably would not have a thousand hits. Wow, I still can't believe I have reached 4 digits on my blog hit counter. I am beaming just writing this silly post.

Of late my blogs have been mostly related to basketball and I apologize to all my non-sports loving readers. But lets get real, its March and basketball rules the world. Life is Basketball...the rest is just details. Over the next couple of months I am going to try and broaden my horizons and write about a wider variety of topics. No guarantees but I will try. Topic suggestions are welcome.

Before I go out on the town to celebrate the popularity of JeantheBeanSpiller, there is one thing that I request of you readers and it is something I have subtly hinted at before. My wish is this, please comment more often. My reader hit to reader comment ratio is awful. I think I have about 20 total comments, so we are talking one comment every 52 reads. This is just inexcusable. Don't be shy or nervous. Just get yourself a log-in and password and post away. I am sure everyone, especially me, would love to read your thoughts.

Looking forward to hearing from you all,

The Bean Spiller