Bangs McCoy

That Jim - he’s crazy!

January 12th, 2008

Bryan put in two full work days in the last 24 hours - last night he went back to work at about 8:30 PM and stayed until 4:30 this morning! He went back again at around noon today for a few hours. Later in the afternoon, I painted the upper half of the bathroom walls. I was worried about the new texture being unsealed in there for very long. It looks like I have other things to worry about - I think I patched the walls with the wrong material. I used “patching plaster” (since our walls are made of plaster & lathe), but it reacts strangely to being painted with latex paint - it seems to absorb moisture from the paint and then kind of flakes off. Ugh. We’ll have to let this coat dry for a while and see if I can improve it on the next round. I did turn out well though, and looks nice. Another issue is around the edges of the new acrylic shower walls - the white silicone sealant, of course, cannot be painted. And the edge of the silicone is not very uniform. So I think we’ll have to tape off a strip about a half-inch wide around the shower walls and paint it white so there will be a clean edge. I think it will look fine.

For dinner we decided to try Crazy Jim’s Buffet & Grill. A small but nice strip mall was recently built near our house (some tenants include Benjamin Moore Paint and AMT Printing), and we have watched a few small restaurants come and go from it. We tried the Hawaiian Barbecue - it was okay. A few months ago, Crazy Jim’s appeared, and we noticed that not only did it stay, but it seemed that a fair number of people were actually eating there. We thought a buffet would be a good choice for Rees, our picky eater.

Turns out, Crazy Jim is Chinese. Whodathunk? Nevertheless, Rees did find enough to fill his plate:

• Chocolate pudding
• Lemon pudding
• French fries
• Pineapple
• Red Jell-o cubes
• Fried donut-thing
• Mystery orange fruit
• Sweet & sour fried chicken
• Skittles

Our opinion - good, average Chinese buffet. Not extraordinary, but good enough. The best though, was the chafing dish full of tiny octopi. Seriously. Not calamari - they were tiny, perfectly formed octopi, each about three inches tall. They were not mixed with anything else. I couldn’t bring myself to try one, but Bryan did. He said it tasted exactly like you think an octopus would taste.

After the boys were in bed, we watched Stardust. I recommend. A nice PG-13er for the devout. We both enjoyed it - it’s reminiscent of The Princess Bride. De Niro was great as Captain Shakespeare.

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