Back to it....

I should do this again...  My life is just way to awesome not to share.

So sure, I'll update my facebook still, I won't update my twitter account... still.

But when I have a great experience (which lets face it, happens often in my life), I'll post about it.

Most recent one?  My best friend had a CD release party for one of his bands last weekend, and the same band is opening up for a major artist this coming weekend.

Before that:  Christmas in Missouri.  Really.  Included with that was tasting some sweet wine that was called 'semi-sweet', some other really good wine from grapes I've never heard of, and a tasting of International Gold Medal winning goat cheese at the local Phillips 66 gas station.

White Castle = Disgusting

Steak 'n Shake = Impossibly fun to say aloud.

I can cook a full dinner for 8 in 1.5 hours (including sauces and with no prep), a feat which amazed some in the party of 8.

Emerils Cider Brined Turkey works on a wild turkey, but not as well as the store bought.  Still tender, moist and good though.

Changes since:

I have a girlfriend that has taken a lead role in my life.  She is as awesome as me.  (The mutual concession of our only argument thus far produces that last assertion.)  I shall call her: Amazing.

I quit smoking months ago.  

Amazing is as much of a foodie as I have always wanted to be, so most of my money seems to go to food (it's close against cars).  We have been together for 7 months and have had 'nice dinners out' a couple dozen times I would guess.

A supplement to the food passion, I have been cooking a lot more than I ever have, and self-teaching in the kitchen.  Only the second date I had with Amazing, I made Beef Wellington for the first time - also using a recipe of my creation (admittedly not much of a departure from standards).  It turned out wonderful.  (Both the food and the date.)

I have taken way too much time off from Business School.  I plan to return in the spring.

I'm still a car-nut.  So much so, I have 4 different cars than whatever it was I had since my last entry in this blog.  And again, feel like I need to get rid of some.

Wine is still a big part.  Even more so now that food has taken a larger role.

I stopped working out.  :(  

I'm about the same weight I was last year, but many of those pounds on me are from a different source.  I'll keep a record here of my weight.  I was 177 pounds last Sunday.

Thats it for now.  Keep coming back for new posts.

Update on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Micah Rousey

I was politely informed it was the fourth date I made the Wellington.

I told you so.

All humbleness aside... I love being right.  I wrote this when oil futures closed at about $138 a barrel.  It peaked a few weeks later at just under $150.

Right now it's currently well under $110, and still think the slip isn't over.

Man in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

                           -    Theodore Roosevelt

Awhile back, I had posted my previously written response to the question:  ‘Looking back on your life, of what are you most proud?’ (Read it here.)

After reading the above quote from Theodore Roosevelt, I guess I can sum it all by saying:  

“I am the man in the arena.”

So, when I say I am intimately acquainted with failure, don’t think I’m looking for pity, nor should you feel any for me.  Those who feel sorry for me when they hear of my defeats in the past can be grouped with those who, when told of my various successes, call me ‘lucky’.

It isn’t circumstance that determines the number of times you succeed, or the number of times you fail.  It’s the number of times you try.

                               -Micah A. Rousey  (Yep, that one is mine.)

Roosevelt’s entire speech (although long) is really worth the read.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

I am loved.

Because I like to manage my online presence, I often perform a Google Search on my name to make sure I'm doing a good job of it.  I'm the only Micah Rousey in the world, so if someone Googles my name, I'd rather my blog and software expert sites come up first, rather than all the poker stuff.  Cash in a few major poker tournaments, and your name is plastered all over the internet as a poker player.  It made it look like that was all I did.

Anyway, what I found on my last search was entertaining, and filled my mind with questions:

One for everyone:

http://www.stylefeeder.com/i/299m242m/I-Love-Micah-Rousey-T-Shirt

And of course, for all you special people:

http://www.stylefeeder.com/i/g4lcry2t/Micah-Rousey-Loves-Me-T-Shirt

I know you're all dissapointed these are no longer available, but really, someone did design this to try to sell... and it wasn't me.

(I did figure out why these exist, but I'm not sharing.)

New business.

Many of you know already, but I'm in a new venture lately.

Krähe Tourbillon Watches 

Click the above link to check out my site, which is still in development.