Genifer made seasoned chicken with chipotle cheddar mashed potatoes and stuffing for dinner this evening…
It was really tasty. She’s such a good cook and comes up with the most delicious meals. 😀🐔❤️
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It’s what’s for dinner.
Posted by Thadd F. on August 7, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/07/its-whats-for-dinner-107/
Mr. Fix-It.
The lock on our back door broke this evening. I went to let the dogs out the back door into the yard and the little knob came right off in my hand…
We had to use needle-nosed pliers to get the back door open. Thankfully, we could also use the needle-nosed pliers to get the door to latch again after they came back inside.
UPDATE: I managed to find the exact same lock at Wood’s Hardware downtown and replace the lock and add a deadbolt to our back door. It was surprisingly not that difficult at all. This is now the third lock I’ve replaced in our house. A while back the deadbolt on our front door broke after unlocking it to get into our house when we were coming home one evening. And I replaced that lock with little difficulty as well. I’m becoming quite the master locksmith. Haha. 😀🔐❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 7, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/07/mr-fix-it/
1400 in a single day.
I had a 1400+ point Monday on my Swarm. That’s never happened to me before…
I remember when there was a time when I was so thrilled to break 1000 points for the week on Foursquare before it morphed into Swarm. I would have been so happy with 1400 points for an entire week. And it wasn’t too long ago that my best for a week was 1985 point on Swarm. Now to be able to tally over 1400 points in a single day is pretty remarkable. Kind of unbelievable. Swarm is pretty silly but I still really like my check-ins on Swarm! 😀⭐️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 7, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/07/1400-in-a-single-day/
Bird Scooters?
I’ve been seeing these electric Bird Scooters all over around downtown…
Just one day, they just appeared out of the blue, and in a matter of a couple of days, they were literally everywhere downtown. I didn’t know very much about them at all. And I really didn’t give them much of a second thought. Having just had both hips of my replaced, the last thing I need to be doing is hopping on an electric scooter and zipping around downtown. But after seeing Casey Neistat talk about them on one of his vlogs, I became more curious and downloaded the app to learn more about them.
After you download the app, agree to the terms and conditions and enter billing information, it would appear that you’re good to go. Now from what I understand, you use the app to locate a scooter near you (and looking at the map, they’re everywhere downtown.) Once you find a scooter, you use the app again to unlock the scooter by scanning the barcode on the handlebars. You put the kickstand up, kick-start the scooter three times, then use the throttle button on the handlebar. You ride with both feet on the footboard, use the handbrake to slow down and obey the traffic laws. You end your ride by tapping the END button in the app. Apparently, the scooters cost $1 to unlock with an additional 15¢ a minute until you end your ride and relock your scooter whenever you get to wherever you’re going.
Initially, I’m very skeptical about these scooters. But I was also very skeptical initially about Uber and now we use Uber all the dang time. So someday when I’m feeling particularly brave, I’ll have to take one of these scooters for a ride and check it out.
😬🐦🛴
Posted by Thadd F. on August 6, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/06/bird-scooters/
FC Cincinnati versus Nashville SC.
IT’S FC CINCINNATI MATCH DAY TWELVE! We missed the Wednesday night win against the Charlotte Independence. Those Wednesday night matches make for a really long rest of the week. We also missed FC|C’s win against the New York Red Bulls II two Saturdays ago because of my hip revision surgery. But we made it to last Saturday’s international Friendly against RCD Espanyol. And tonight, FC Cincinnati was hosting the other soon-to-be-an-MLS-team, Nashville SC…
Before the match, we stopped at Chicago Gyros & Dogs in Clifton for lunch…
And a $5 bucket of the Champagne of Beers, Miller High Life…
This is the first time we’ve actually eaten at Chicago Gyros & Dogs. Chicago Gyros & Dogs has become our go-to place whenever we order food from UberEats. It’s so good. And they’re the only place I’ve found that will deliver me delicious corn dogs whenever I want. And I love corn dogs. When we were getting ready to head over to the Nippert Stadium, the sky looked like this…
Come to find out, the match was on a lightning delay. And kick-off was pushed back until 8:30pm so we went to Mac’s to have a beer and watch some of the Red’s baseball game. Eventually, we headed over to Nippert Stadium when game time finally rolled around…
We were walking into Nippert right as the match was kicking off…
And it was a dream start for FC Cincinnati! Danni Konig scored the fastest goal in FC|C history by finding the back of the net in the FIRST MINUTE of the match!
And a quick video snippet of the atmosphere at Nippert Stadium and me trying in vain to get JimmyMcLaughlin to wave at us as he warmed up…
At halftime, FC|C still had a 1-0 lead over Nashville…
SPRINKLES!
Midweek FC Cincinnati signed their first MLS Designated Player, Fanendo Adi. Adi hails from Lagos, Nigeria, and scored 54 goals in 126 games in four seasons with the Portland Timbers. From the FC Cincinnati website…
Adi originally came to Portland in May 2014 as a Designated Player on loan from FC Copenhagen, scoring nine goals and adding four assists in 24 games in his debut MLS season. Portland later completed the transfer and he then scored back-to-back 16-goal seasons in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, he registered his third-straight season with double-digit goals with 10, despite being sidelined the final two months of the year with injury.
With Copenhagen, Adi drew UEFA Champions League experience with group-stage appearances against Juventus, Real Madrid and Galatasaray.
And tonight Fanendo Adi made his FC|C debut coming on as a sub in the 72nd minute for the goal-scorer, Danni Konig…
I just missed the attendance again. It was announced that there was a crowd of 27,426 were at tonight’s match…
And the match would end in a 1-1 draw.
FC Cincinnati’s next home match is next Sunday, August 11th at 6pm against Penn FC. So we’ll probably end up skipping that one, and just watching the match on TV. If it was an early game on Sunday like 2pm or even 4pm, we’d probably go. But we need to get ready for our week and that’s just too late for us to be running around on a Sunday evening.
Looking at the calendar, I think we’re also going to miss the match on Saturday, August 18th against Charleston Battery because we’ll be in Michigan. We’ll be sure to take one of our Chromecast and a couple of tablets with us to Michigan so we can stream that match through ESPN+ as well.
But thankfully, there’s a home game almost every Saturday for the entire summer. So it looks like the next match we’ll be able to make it to will be on Saturday, September 1st against Pittsburgh Riverhounds. We’ll see you at Nippert! 😀⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 4, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/04/fc-cincinnati-versus-nashville-sc/
Pause for paws.
When we sit out on our back patio and Genifer goes inside for something, Oscar and Mack both immediately sit down and stare at the door…
And then she comes back and they go about their business. They’re pretty silly. 😀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 3, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/03/pause-for-paws-100/
Hello praying mantis.
When we were sitting out on our back patio, a praying mantis appeared out of nowhere and started climbing up the side of my water bottle…
It was kinda crazy to have a praying mantis just wander by and say hello. 😀🦗❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 3, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/03/a-praying-mantis/
A stop at Streetside.
Being right in the neighborhood after lunch at Taglio, we stopped for a little sampler at Streetside Brewery. We love Streetside…
#15 was outstanding! Trouble in Paradise Millkshake Blonde with mango, passion fruit and guava. It was more like drinking juice and less like drinking a beer…
And we brought home a couple more crowlers with us to bring up to Michigan…
😀🍺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 3, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/03/a-stop-at-streetside/
Taglio Pizza.
After my physical therapy, we stopped in Columbia Tusculum for lunch at Taglio Pizza. We first heard about Taglio through their Instagram. They are becoming quite well known for their deep dish Detroit style pizza. We weren’t aware there was such a thing as Detroit style pizza. But the photos looked amazing, we had to try this incredible looking pizza for ourselves…
We ordered the deep dish Spicy Italian…
And look at that beauty. It’s a work of art. A delicious, looking work of eatable art…
Taglio’s deep dish pizza is every bit as delicious as it looks. I can’t wait until we have the opportunity to eat it again. The best part of Taglio’s Detroit deep dish pizza is it only comes in one size with eight slice which means there were still plenty of leftovers for us to eat later. 😀🍕😍❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 3, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/03/taglio-pizza/
Urbana Cafe.
On the way to my physical therapy, we stopped in East Walnut Hills at Urbana Cafe for a coffee. Urbana Cafe just recently opened down the street from where Genifer works and she thought the place was so cute that I had to see it…
Such a cute little cafe. And the coffee was really good too. I want to open a super cute little coffee shop just to decorate it and then post photos to its Instagram. 😀☕️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 3, 2018
https://tplusg.com/2018/08/03/urbana-cafe/
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