Northside Sunday.

We went to Django Western Taco for a late brunch today. We shared the buttermilk biscuit with redeye chorizo gravy and fried eye, Chef Josh’s famous tater tot casserole and a side of bacon topped with ancho chile honey…

And it was delicious. As always. Also, Chef Josh said that Django Western Taco has some really big news coming very soon so we can’t wait for his big announcement! After we stuffed our faces at Django, we walked over to Urban Artifact for a beer or two…

We had the very last pint of the Palmistry and a couple of Finn’s…

We love Northside so much. 😀 ❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 28, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, Django Western Taco, May, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Urban Artifact, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on May 28, 2017

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FC Cincinnati versus Toronto FC2.

IT’S FC CINCINNATI MATCH DAY SIX!

This evening FC Cincinnati was taking on Toronto FC 2…

O Canada…

O say can you see…

HERE WE GO!

GOAL! 1-0 FC Cincinnati!

Danni König!

At the half, it was 1-0 FC Cincinnati…

SPRINKLES!

HERE WE GOOOO…

The fourth official signalled for three minutes to be added on…

And that’s the way the match ended, 1-0 to FC Cincinnati!

After the match, we took an Uber back to Northside and stopped into Second Place for a celebratory bourbon slush…

It was a pretty terrific evening. FC Cincinnati is back at Nippert Stadium this Wednesday as they take on rival Louisville City FC in the third round of the US Open Cup. Djiby will be looking for some revenge. Louisville City FC is the team that Djiby got sent off against and suspended for six matches after allegedly biting an LCFC player. Hopefully, FC|C can knock LCFC out of the US Open Cup. We’ll see you there! 😀 ❤️ ⚽️

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by Thadd F. on May 27, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, FC Cincinnati, May, Nippert Stadium, Ohio, Soccer, Sports, Toronto FC II, University of CIncinnati, Uptown, USL

Posted by Thadd F. on May 27, 2017

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FA Cup Champions.

We watched The FA Cup final live from Wembley this afternoon on the telly. I was so happy that my Arsenal managed to down newly-crowned champions Chelsea. It was a long season for the Gunners. It was really nice to have it end on such a high note…

Amid all the turmoil this season, I’ve always been very much Wenger stay.

Since he took leadership of Arsenal in 1996, Arsene Wenger steered them to 3 Premier League titles, 7 FA Cups, 6 FA Community Shields and 21 straight Champions League appearances. His teams also set several English records: the longest win streak, the longest unbeaten run and the only 38 match season unbeaten.

I suppose there’s a chance that by getting rid of Arsene Wenger and making the change to another manager could reap more championships or maybe be more successful in the Champions League. But I think there’s a greater chance that the team would not be nearly as successful. I just don’t understand how people have been all upset by the club “only” lifting 16 trophies in the last 21 years. And how many other clubs would love to have a run of 21 consecutive top four finishes? I guess for some people nothing’s ever good enough. 😀 ⚽️ ❤️

UPDATE: Arsene Wenger has signed a new two-year deal! But he was told by Arsenal chiefs, “You must win major trophy in two years.” No pressure there. Ugh. 😬

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by Thadd F. on May 27, 2017 • Permalink

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Who has it better than us?

We finally upgraded to Adobe Creative Cloud at work. And after updating and syncing all my devices, I stopped to take a photo of my set-up at work…

The only thing that wasn’t pictured that’s normally on my desk as well was my Samsung Galaxy Note 5. And I just found out today that work is going start paying for my monthly Metro bus passes!

Who has it better than us? 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 26, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged Central Business District, Cincinnati, Deskey, Downtown, May, Ohio

Posted by Thadd F. on May 26, 2017

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#TBT Pause for paws.

Always remembering the good times with the bud dog. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 26, 2017 • Permalink

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NYPD Pizza.

We planned to order pizza tonight and watch the Reds play the Indians on TV. It’s fun to eat pizza and watch the Reds. Apparently, there was some sort of torrential downpour in Cleveland and the Reds-Indians game was postponed. Even without the Reds, tonight still seemed like a good NYPD pizza kind of night. Their Station House pizza is just lights out. And we added ham to it tonight to make it even better! I’ve also really been digging on their BBQ/Buffalo wings lately too…

YUM! We really like NYPD. They’re such good stuff. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 25, 2017 • Permalink

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Pause for paws.

Oscar was playing with his sammich this evening…

And when we’re done playing keep away, he has to hide his sammich…

Oscar is silly and he loves that sammich. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 24, 2017 • Permalink

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Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, Dogs, Home Sweet Home, May, Northside, Ohio, Oscar, Pause for paws, Pets

Posted by Thadd F. on May 24, 2017

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Another stormy evening.

This is how the sky looked when I got off the bus in Northside this evening…

After dinner, we dodged the raindrops to take Oscar on another walk…

It was just another stormy evening in Northside. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 24, 2017 • Permalink

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Reds baseball game #4.

Tonight, our Reds were taking on the Cleveland Indians in the second game of this year’s Ohio Cup. It was a pretty night so we went to our fourth Reds game of this baseball season…