Month: October 2008

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Cafe Steamers: General TSO Spicy Chicken

Cafe Steamers so far are my favorite heat and eat meal.  The General TSO chicken is right up there with the rest.

You don’t get a lot of chicken, but the portion size is similar to the rest.  It’s not immediately spicy but does have a bit of a kick after the fact.

If you like General TSO Chicken then you’ll probably like this.   It cooks fast too, 4 minutes as opposed to 5-6 for most other meals.

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Would definitely eat again.

Cafe Steamers (General TSO Spicy Chicken

Category Rating
(1-10) with 10 being the best.		 Notes
Portion Size 7 Overall a decent portion size, though not a lot of chicken, this serving had 4 whole pieces.
Portability 8 Fits easily in a small soft sided thermal lunch box.  You still have room for snacks and what-not.
Cookability 10 The time indicated on the box is spot on, in the different microwaves I’ve used.  Very Consistent
Preparation 9 Drop dead simple to cook, open the box, put it in the Microwave.  No poking, or slicing.  When done peel of the top, dump the food into the sauce and eat.  Comes with it’s own bowl* 
Food Quality
*Taste*		 9 Actually better than expected.
Over ALL Score 43 out of a possible 50 isn’t too bad.
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Don’t got game? Then don’t act like it.

There is one girl on Molly’s team… (actually there were two but one moved and/or quit).

My wife would kill me if I posted her name.   She runs her mouth like she’s got game.  She struts around like she’s got game, when in fact she’s quite horrible.  No, she’s beyond horrible.   Not retarded, on the wrong team horrible, just absolutely no skills horrible.

She’s one of the older more “experienced” girls too.  She tries the run the show, but couldn’t identify a position to save her life.  She calls balls that are no where near her, then looks befuddled when it doesn’t come near her and she doesn’t get to play it.  She misses *most* of the balls near her that are playable.

She had a brake away today.   Her; one-on-one just outside the box with the goalie.  What did she do?  Some spin around move thing and lost the ball for no reason.  Really all she needed to do was shoot.

She’s rarely in position.  She’ll run from the front line back to take a goal kick.   I guess someone told her she was good at that or something.  Her goal kick past half field percentage is like .02%.  She generally boots it right up the middle to the other team.   I really don’t understand why her coach hasn’t choked her by now.

I feel for the coach, he doesn’t have anywhere to hide her.  She’s even worse at goalie, though he’s tried to put her there.

Nobody is perfect, I get that.   There are other girls on the team that struggle at times too.  One who I’m convinced needs glasses.   But she doesn’t try to do everything.  She generally plays her position.   Molly isn’t a saint either, but she’s generally there and makes the play 4 out of 5 times.

This one person though, really, really makes it tough to watch the games.

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Ford Excursion : Brake Eater

Just put front brakes on our 200 Ford Excursion for what I think is the 5th time in 140k miles.

That’s 28k per set.   I know it’s had all (4) wheels done twice, just the fronts twice, (now 3x).

That heavy behemoth just eats brakes.  Best part was, it went pretty smooth, I don’t think I cussed once.

We’ll see how the $77 NAPA Ceramic pads do.  We’ve had issues with non-Ford pads in the past…  The brakes just get bound up every now and then and will pull hard (generally to the left, but not always) under hard braking.   Usually falling back to Ford brakes took care of this.

We’ll see.