Monday, November 29, 2021

Weekly Roundup: Thanksgiving, a Tale of Two 5k's, and THE ROOM

 

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition we celebrated Thanksgiving, I ran two 5k's and started a run streak, and we had the Ultimate Cinematic Experience.  Move over AFI Top 100, there's a new kid in town.

Monday, November 22, 2021

Weekly Round Up: Climbing High

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition the stepsons and I had a weekend on our own, I'm getting "high" in my workouts, and I've now seen 98 of the AFI Top 100 movies (no need for a separate post this week).

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Weekly Roundup Part 2 of 2: Three Hour Movies and Spoilers

I thought that seeing A Clockwork Orange would be the last obstacle toward seeing all of the AFI Top 100 movies.  There aren't any other Big Hairy Movies that I'm scared of on the list.

But like a classic monster movie it's a case of conquering one monster only to find another one taking its place...my obstacle now is The Attack of the Three Hour Movies.  I fought hard and made it through a record 6 movies this week with 6 left to go...but man oh man they're all long suckers.

Monday, November 15, 2021

Weekly Roundup Part 1 of 2: Costco Food Reviews and a Race

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition we tried a few new-to-us Costco products, I had a good race experience, and a food crisis came to an end.

Friday, November 12, 2021

It's Been A Year: The 4th Annual Weekly Eats Edition

 

It's the fourth anniversary of the first weekly eats post and time to celebrate "Birchwood New Year".  Let's take a look back at this year's Best of the Best.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Weekly Round Up Part 2 of 2: This week's AFI top 100 movies

Friends, I have now seem 88 of the AFI top 100 movies including a whopping three of the movies that were on my "I haven't seen this and I never want to" list.

Monday, November 8, 2021

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Weekly Round Up Part 2 of 2: this week's AFI movies

The good news: I've now seen 83 of the AFI top 100 movies, which brings my "grade" to a solid B.  My new goal is to bring my score into the mid 90s and lock down the A.

The bad news: I feel like I'm getting to the point of diminishing returns with this project.  I saw five movies that I hadn't seen before and of those two were good and three were pretty slow going.

Monday, November 1, 2021

Weekly Round Up Part 1 of 2: a bunch of new recipes!

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  I watched a ton of AFI Top 100 movies this week, which will get their own post tomorrow.  When I wasn't parked in front of the TV I managed to try several new recipes and got back to the run.