Beef Jerky, Chocolates, Nuts, Oh my!

No, this is not a paid advertisement. I just love this place and have to tell you about it. When my wife and I go to Oklahoma to visit Choctaw Casino we make a stop just inside the Oklahoma border just North of Dennison (Texas) to a place called the Peanut Shoppe. Oh man!

They have fudge, peanuts of every kind, chocolate, and mixture of all those together in various formats. They have candy, jellies, and (my favorite) beef jerky.

The beef jerky is what it is all about for me. It is one of the top 2 beef jerkies I have ever tried. One year at work my co worker and me kept a log on a whiteboard of various beef jerkies we would go out and find. We would rate them. The top 2 on the list were The Peanut Shoppe's jerky and Clint and Sons Black Label jerky.

Anyway, I thought I just put a bug in your ear if you are looking on loading up on goodies, try this place out. They have a website so you can check out their stuff and order online too BUT it's best to just call them up and order over the phone. The beef jerky is NOT listed on their site so you have to ask for it via phone.

http://www.thepeanutshoppe.com/

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The catch up post...


It's been a while, eh? Strangely not much has changed since my last post (of un-substance) back a little more than a year ago. Even then, that post didn't say much other than monkey's are cool. Here is what has happened:

1. Finished up some botched oral surgery pain (thank goodness for steroids)!
2. Went to Disneyland last May.
3. Visited family in Denver in July.
4. Had a Kickstarter for a Zombie game Chris and I made (it failed).
5. Went to Disney World October (I'm still working on a recap post on my AccordingToWhim blog.
6. Got irritated at how Blogger is messing up my post formatting.
7. Got a promotion at work and started working in Fort Worth.
8. Got another promotion at work and moved back to working in Decatur.
9. Started a vending machine business.
10. Got so irritated at the Dallas Comicon people (my 2nd biggest set of events for my business) that I swore them off completely and don't do their shows anymore.
11. Chris and I did several shows for the business through out the first of the year but they ALL stunk (except AnimeFest). We have abandoned the idea of doing tons of shows (since we loose money). We did have nice trip to Arkansas for a couple of shows though.
12. Started using a Wells Fargo Mortgage Rewards credit card for ALL my needs (and have nicely racked up some mortgage credits).
13. Took my mom along with us to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags last year. First time she has been there in... idk, 30 years?
14. I started collecting (digitally) all the Disney Park audio. It's become an obsession!

I'm sure there was tons of other little things but those were the biggies.

Secret of Monkey Island Gifs

So I was digging through some old discs and found these gems. I got these off the interwebs many many moons ago. Enjoy!

Three-headed monkey

Herman Toothrot

Monkey Dancing

 

Monkey Swinging

Murray the talking head

The Navigating Head

The Governers

Stan

 

 

Just a static shot... beautiful.

Humm. Getting a Pirates of the Caribbean vibe here...

Who can resist these fantastic graphics?

Some Harry Potter 'questions'

There are plot holes so large you could drive a truck through them. Here are a few in 'question format':

• If Fudge would not believe Harry in the Goblet of Fire that Voldermort was back, why not just look into his memory (like Harry and Dumbledore do on many occasions to many different people's memories)?
• Why didn't Harry just kill Voldermort on the many occasions when he had the chance? Harry knew what the score was and that nothing would end till one of the them was dead.
• When Harry and Dumbledore apperate back at the castle after Dumbledore is weakened and they heard others coming (and Dumbledore seemed to already know what was going to happen)... why didn't they apperate back out?
• That bothers me too. Dumbledore always acted as if his death was apart of a plan and you never really knew if he died or not cause of the way he kept talking. In the end he did die and for no apparent purpose or plan. It was kinda dumb.
• If the luck potion and the timeturner were both so powerful why weren't they used at REALLY critical moments of Voldermort's rise? For that matter why didn't Dumbledore keep the Sorcerer's stone (or a potion of it) too?

I understand these were 'kids' books written by an a first time writer but there were some big holes there...

Funny things my mom says...

• DW-40 = WD40
• UBS = USB
• On the line = Online
• Matt = Nathan

Friday Thoughts

• You know, Harry Potter is all bunk... Given the description of what 'types' of people go into each house JK Rowling jumped the shark when she made Hermione (obviously should have gone into Ravenclaw), Neville and Ron (should have been Hufflepuff) go into Griffyndor. BUNK.
• Harry's aging in the movies disturbed me too. They really should have made an effort to make these films closer together.

Spring is in the air

• I got Poison Oak REALLY bad on my arm last week and it is only now finally going away. (slowly). It happens every year when I do the first yard work of the year.
• In May Chris and I are running a KickStarter project for a board game we are making called Rise of the Rock Star. Go check it out.
• I'm working all the way up in Brideport now and won't be back in the metroplex (proper) until October. The drive is a beating.
• Home Depot's appliance department has really shrunk lately. We went to blow a couple of grand there the other day and we couldn't find ANYTHING we liked, there was little to choose from.

Friday Thoughts

• I figured it out. If you look at the history books you will find Democrats were the race-hatin' whites who fought desegregation. Eventually human rights won out and there was nothing Democrats could do to stop it. HOWEVER, in their defeat they figured out a way to keep those races beneath their jack boots... government assistance.
• The Democrat party began with the hand outs in the name of 'kindness', keeping an already beaten race dependant on their 'white overlords'. In the guise of helping they have reduced a race of people to dependants.
• Meanwhile the Democrats paint Rebublicans as heartless when Republicans simply want more people on their own two feet (having jobs, paying taxes, etc).

Monday Thoughts

• We bought a house. We are now waiting on all that tedious paperwork to go through. Ugh.
• I will be glad to get out of a mobile home but will not be glad that I have virtually no yard. What ever will I do with my free time?!
• The new house is in Keller (North Fort Worth actually) so a lot of what I talk about Decatur-wise will become Keller-wise.
• Oh yeah, the only problem... we haven't sold our current house yet.
• My realtor is working on that but we have had a ton of showings in the last week alone.
• Have you 'liked' your local emergency scanner on Facebook (most cities/areas have one). Ours is called DFW scanner and it tells you about all the emergency stuff going on in the area. Cool.
• Well, it looks like we are finally getting some cold weather. It's only the middle of November.
• We DO need at least 3 days of sold below 20 tempatures this Winter, otherwise we will be overrun with bugs again. The grasshopper plague this year was BAD.