As Time Goes By..

Today marks three years of dating bliss for Jaclyn and me. Boy, time sure does fly by. It is amazing how a great relationship can be built upon the love of food, Seinfeld, and Phil Shane. Ok I admit it goes deeper than that, but that is our little secret. The bottom line is that at the end of the day, there is noone I would rather share my bread-maker bread with than my little English professor (even if she refuses to use a red pen).

Yesterday was my Dad's birthday. Everyone say happy birthday to William Aaron Ledbetter! 68 years ago, the little town of Tula Mississippi (you won't find it on a map) welcomed the future father of yours truly into the world.

My Dad was a cute little kid. Looking at his 1st grade picture, you will see a freckle-face boy wearing overalls. It is interesting to wonder what he was thinking at the time the picture as taken and if he had any idea where his life would lead him.

Bill Ledbetter is a good man, a good father and a picture-perfect grandfather (I guess it's hard to be a bad grandfather). The many hours spent together throwing baseball and football, shooting basketball, going to "Simple" Hardware or yelling at each other all helped mold me into the somewhat-decent and mildly-successful man I am today (some may not agree with that assessment).

Soooo.. last night Jacly, Carly, (good) Doug and I went to Taleo's in Irvine for dinner and adult-beverages. If you have never been, I highly recommend it. The service is excellent and the food even better (albeit a little pricey... $9 for guacamole!?). Our server (Jeremy) had this deep, radio-announcer, check-out-my-huge-pecs kind of voice. It was quite difficult listening to him praise the nightly specials without this ridiculous smile on my face (I think Doug just had to look down to keep from laughing). I like to think that the sense-memory of his voice only helped to enhance the quality of my carnitas.