Burger Inn, burger out

After our visit to Bob's Hamburgers we decided to start visiting small burger joints around town, but only because we don't have much to do. And we like burgers! We went to Burger Inn which is a local franchise with three locations, one on MacLeod Trail, 4th Street just off 17th Ave but we went to the Bow Trail location which is pretty close to where we live.

The Burger Inn sign is pretty plain, but under the name they have a banner with outlines of the different animals. It's funny and would be funnier to make an outline of a human and tape it on their sign.

Burger Inn's main claim to fame is the the variety of different burgers they sell. If they can (legally) put it in burger form and sell it, they do. In addition to the usual beef and chicken they also have free range beef, wild salmon, elk, ostrich, buffalo, lamb, wild boar, turkey and meatless. Of course after going there we just couldn't get a plain old hamburger, so I got the ostrich burger and Cody got the buffalo burger. The ostrich burger did not taste like chicken, it's not white meat and actually looks like a regular old beef burger. I guess it was okay, it was a bit dry though. Apparently, the 4th Street location sells Kobe beef burgers in different 4, 6 and 8 oz patties ranging in prices from $12 to $16. Yes, $16 just for a burger!

For some reason they don't offer combos so you have to buy the burger, fries and drink all separately. They obviously make more money that way, as it cost me $9.21 for my ostrich burger, large fries and a can of Diet Pepsi. The ostrich burger was on the cheaper burgers too. The fries were pretty good, they cut the potatoes into fries with the skin still on.

The old lady that was working there was kinda weird. There were some Hutterites in there that she obviously knew and she was talking with them and going on about her digital camera and the size of the SD card and about how all the pictures she had were of her dogs. When your food is ready you don't get it on a tray or anything, it comes on a paper plate. So we went up and got out plate of fries and the plate with the burger on it. The lady was like "Here's some ketchup!" and slaps some ketchup packs on the counter and then "Here are you napkins!" and throws the napkins down on the counter. I was a little put off and replied, "Gee...thanks". It seemed a rude, but she was old and European! If you wanted extra napkins, ketchup, or any condiments of any kind you won't find them. They must hide them all behind the counter which is pretty smart because you won't have people wasting stuff.

Burger Inn wasn't bad, the price was a bit high, but the variety they offer is a nice change. I may eat there again, but there are so many other place to check out.

Think outside of the box

With my addiction of ordering junk off eBay I'm always getting something in the mail. I love getting mail. This arrived today...

I believe it started out as a box , but now not so much. The fact that only half of it has corners is a little disturbing, most boxes have 8 corners not 4. Lucky thing it only had some loose figures that I paid 99 cents for and not something expensive and breakable. Nothing insides was damaged. What happened to that thing? With all the things I ordered this is the first to arrive in such bad shape. With everything I've ordered I've never once bothered to get insurance because I'm too cheap. I did order a CD once that never arrived, but I did get my money back. That did suck because the CD was way out of print and impossible to find and I got it for super cheap.

More Cranbrook

On Friday Logan had the day off school, so my dad thought it would be fun to take him to Fairmont and we were the only BC plate in the parking lot. I haven't been to Fairmont in probably a good 17-18 years! They've kept up the appearance of the building and stuff, but the pool itself has seen better days. The pool which is supposed to be painted blue has a lot of the paint chipped off. When walking around in the pool you can feel concrete bits under your feet that have chipped off from the bottom. The edges of the pool are even worse and are all worn and down and chipped up. Where the two sections of the large cool pool meet there is supposed to be a rubber gasket, but on the one side it is pulled out of the crevice for a good three feet. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be like that. It needs some work.

After the pool we went to Funtasia which is just off the highway. I think they should change their name to Scam City, that pretty much sums that place up. Although on the back deck of the main building they had a french fry vending machine. I'm not even sure how they would make french fries from a vending machine. The maintenance and upkeep must be pretty intensive. Does it use fresh potatoes? Does it use oil and if so, how often does it need to be changed? It wasn't operating, but it did have a sign on it saying it was for sale and call some guy if interested.

Logan is currently taking swimming lessons and one days while my mom was she ran into somebody I went to school, Ian Hill. My mom was telling me about how she ran into him at the pool and he was asking about me and stuff. My response was, "Why?" Anyway, if anyone is interested Ian is married with two daughters and lives in Moyie. I never asked her what she said about me. I guess I have to feel kind of bad for my parents when somebody asks them what I'm doing and they have to say I work at Superstore. When somebody asks me what I do I just say "not much" which is actually true, but still probably not the answer they were looking for. Ha, too bad!

The weather in Cranbrook wasn't too bad, but as usual it weird as it was sunny one moment and then snowing the next, then sunny again. Luckily the snow didn't stay on the ground. Here in Calgary it was a different story when it snowed 23 cms on Thursday and in typical Calgary fashion it was almost melted by Friday.

Yeah, I'm now back in Calgary and getting back in the groove of sitting in front of the TV. I hate watching TV at my parents because the TV is in the living room and there are no curtains so the glare off the screen is incredibly annoying. I left pretty early this morning at got home just after 2pm this afternoon. I got home and unpacked all my crap, ate lunch, and then had a nap. I woke up and played some Obsure: The Aftermath on my Wii and then we watched The Crawlers. The Crawlers is some some godawful movie (on VHS taped off satellite for me by my grandpa) I found while digging around some of my boxes of junk. It was out some guys dumping nuclear waste in the forest and the tree roots coming alive and killing people. I'm not sure why I kept this movie around for so long, it was BAD! It might have been a Canadian movie too as one scene where the rednecks mount up to fight the roots it shows the mudflaps on a truck that have an outline of Alberta on it. Fun fact!

Cranbrook so far...

Yeah, I made it back! I got back Tuesday afternoon after the usual boring 4 hour drive. Coming back during the week is always nice because the roads are usually pretty quiet. My mom was feeling sick, so Tuesday night I went to the hockey game with my dad. The Ice are in the second round of the playoffs against Lethbridge. The game was pretty bad, the Ice totally sucked. Everyone was saying it's the worst they've seen them...ever! It was actually the first time I had even been inside the Rec Plex, I guess it's nice. The Zamboni even says "Dixon's Service Centre" on one side of it. I bet that cost a fortune!

Wednesday I went to the next hockey game with mom because after Tuesday's game my dad refused to go. The Ice played better, but still lost in the second overtime. I even bought some 50/50 tickets this time, but for some reason didn't win, I think the jerk who did got like $3200. I wanted $3200!! I'll admit the Ice mascot guy Shivers was kinda funny, he's like a Bigfoot/Sasquatch dude.

On the way to Wednesday's game who did I see but Willie! Well, I saw him, he didn't see me. He was stopped at a stop sign and I was turning right and going right by him so I was all waving and he was totally clueless. It's good to know that Willie is an attentive driver and aware of everything around him. He was probably text messaging, changing a CD and drinking coffee at the same time.

When I come back I usually end up taking more crap with me back to Calgary because of stuff I buy here. I bought a couple previously viewed movies from Rogers which has a new entrance/exit going on. I got a couple Simpson's 7-11 Squishee cups from the thrift store. And as usual I bought some CDs from CD Plus. I didn't get new CDs, but used ones. The used CD/DVD bin at CD Plus had some unusually decent selections, they even had Blood or Whiskey, the Irish folk punk guys which I like in there. Too bad I got my copy a long time ago and paid full price for it. I ended up getting The Cramps "Bad Music for Bad People", Duran Duran "Decade", and a U.S. Bombs album for about $21. That's not bad considering most CDs there cost that much. I haven't listened to any of them yet, but I will on the drive back.

Updates & Upgrades(kinda)

As I mentioned the other day I will heading back to Cranbrook tomorrow (Tuesday) until Saturday when I come back to Calgary. I don't have any plans really, other than be bored and stuff. This time I actually remember my Blogger ID and password, so I can login and post something if I feel inclined to do so.

Also, if you have your speakers on you'll notice I added a "Boom Box", which is just an embedded Windows Media Player. I have it set on auto play, but I can turn that off if anyone has a problem with it. Unfortunately at the moment, it's not even working! It was sort of working earlier, but now it's a no go. I'll keep working on it.

UPDATE: Last night I was working on the Boom Box with no luck, so this morning when logged to have another look at it and it worked! Hell yeah, I'm good. Right now it streams four songs (individually) by the Dickies. I haven't figured out playlists or anything like that, so I just added a page element to the side of the blog to show the track listing. I'm not sure to put the track listing above or below the player, which would look better? I'm not good with these kinda things. Enjoy.

Bored much?

So what do you when you are sitting at home and have nothing to do? You try drinking chocolate milk through a strawberry flavored straw!

The result was disappointing, but I wasn't going to know that until I tried it. I wrote about the strawberry straw a while ago on my old MySpace blog. You only get a few mouthfuls of strong strawberry flavor and after that the strawberry slowly fades. With the chocolate milk the chocolate was the dominant flavor, I only tasted the strawberry at the start and after a while I couldn't even taste strawberry at all. I guess the best way to have chocolate strawberry flavored milk would be buy some chocolate and strawberry Quik syrup and put them both into the same glass! That is so crazy, why haven't I thought of it before? Next time I bored I'll give it a try. In other words look for a post in the next couple hours.

Musique

These are a couple of my most recent additions to my music collection. Oh yes, the Vanilla Ice 12" single for Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice's #1 fan Willie is so jealous. I got it from the Inner Sleeve in Marda Loop along with the Young MC CD. It only took 16 years of so for me to upgrade from my cassette copy of Stone Cold Rhymin', but I finally did it and it still sounds "fresh" after all these years. For some reason the Inner Sleeve has boxes and boxes of rap and hip hop 12" singles. Unfortunately all the boxes are placed on the floor and my poor old legs can't take the stress of crouching down for too long. I'm hoping to find some 12" House of Pain singles, but so far no such luck. I haven't found anything too exciting, but I also got the Propellerheads "360 Degrees (Oh Yeah) and Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax" singles.

You can also see my Fonzie Hits record I got off eBay and it's even still sealed. The cover is classic with a huge head shot of the Fonz and he's even wearing a "Sit On It" button. The back of the record even has a pop out piece, so you can prop up the record and display it. It's art! The record also has an "impressionist" track which is a collection of Fonzie sayings like Aaaaaay, Cool, Nerd, and Sit On It. That's worth the price of the album alone, but it's not like I'm going to open it or anything.

The Dickies! I had been eying this album for a while, but was at Melyodia and couldn't really find anything else to buy, so I picked it up. And I glad I did! One of the first punk bands out of LA to get signed to a major label, The Dickies kick out short super high energy goofball songs. The album was released in 1979 and the re-release by the UK label Captain Oi adds in 6 bonus tracks for even more fun. The Dickies are famous for putting out inventive covers and belting them out at warp speed. The Incredible Shrinking Dickies has two covers, one of the Banana Splits theme song and of Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Some stand out songs for me would be Eve of Destruction, Walk Like An Egg and I'm OK, You're OK. I didn't know this, but the Dickies would go on to provide the soundtrack to the cult classic film Killer Klowns From Outer Space. I know nobody is going to run out and buy it on my recommendation, but download (not that you should do that) or something. By something I mean, maybe I can burn it for you.

Oh yeah, on Tuesday I'll be heading to Cranbrook for a few days and for the drive I'll need some new music. I had read the new live CD "Alive" from Daft Punk was supposed to be pretty good, so I picked that up today. It's the new live CD, not their older live CD similarily titled "Alive 1997". All Music Guide says it's not as good (as Alive 1997), but it's harder and faster. The faster the better!

Hey, did anyone notice I changed the name of my blog? Doesn't it make sense? It's not supposed to, so don't ask. The old name still holds true, so I apologize for any spelling and/or grammar mistakes in the above post. I usually don't proof read anything I write because I'm lazy and don't care. Later!

Upgrade?

My old computer has been very slow lately and it's super annoying. Rather than me going and buying a new computer, Cody went out and bought a new computer! All I know is that it's a HP and other than that it has a light scribe drive I don't know any of the tech specs. But whatever, it works better than the old one. The HP does have Windows Vista which is weird, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. My user profile picture is the kitten because I'm cute.

After I wiped all programs and files off my old drive and defragged it, I took the case off to have a look inside. The inside was full of dust, it was nasty and nearly choked me to death when I blew inside it to clean it up a bit. I tried to clean it up a little before I put it back together and no doubt the dust is probably one of the reasons why it was so slow in the first place.

At work my supervisor is on vacation for two weeks which unfortunately means I'm in charge. Whenever she goes on vacation something always goes wrong like people quitting, things breaking, or the department getting renovated. This time was no exception with one girl saying she can't work because her mother was sick. Okay, it happens and life goes on, but it sucks. A couple days later I was at work and the same girl calls back and says it's fine and she can work now. YES! Maybe everything will work out fine for once and I can relax and not work (too hard). Ten minutes later...

My pants ripped! You see something bad happened, then something good happened, so something bad had to happen to balance it all out, that's just my luck. Luckily, I was wearing black underwear at the time, but it didn't help much that the inside pocket was white. I was pissed because those were new pants too and I'm not sure why they ripped in the first place. Damn you Old Navy!