Da Chimpz had a great time last night over at their friend's house -- and so did we. Finally, the weather improved from its wet-cold nastiness and turned gave us a picture-perfect evening.

The party really got started when the giant slabs of meat emerged from the smoker -- that was good stuff. We sat outside, got a fire going, played some corn-hole (yeah, corn-hole), and generally stayed up way past everyone's bedtime.

And speaking of party, it was Bazzukajoe's birthday yesterday. I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Hopefully, we was too busy eating alternating forkfuls of cake and pizzaiola. We haven't heard any of his "tales from the workplace" recently so I must assume he is just saving it all up for some future brain-dump.

Today is rainy again, but maybe we'll get motivated and get our grill going later. Might even re-assemble that little-house-on-the-prairie tent we had a couple years ago. Should be a really interesting process, being the instruction booklet is long gone.