Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Category: Family

  • Proud Papa

    Proud Papa

    Our daughter Danielle graduate from Georgetown last weekend.

    The night before, we attended the Senior Ball, a swanky affair at Union Station.

    It was a wonderful weekend. We are so proud of her.

  • Three Brothers (Part 2)

    We all looked better in the picture from the earlier post, but at least we are back together again.

    Me, Jim and Tom at the hospital
    Me, Jim and Tom

    Jim seems to be doing well, he’s talking and walking. The doctors believe they got all the cancer. There’s no specific timeline, he’s just healing right now.

  • Three Brothers

    This is the name of a Serbian restaurant in Milwaukee. I’m actually amazed it’s still open. Getting burek there was a big treat when I was a kid like 50 years ago.

    Layers of super thin filo dough with beef or cheese

    But that’s not what this post is about. I have two older brothers. We are spread across the country and are generally really bad at staying in touch. Jim, my older (but not oldest) brother just had surgery for a cancer in his mouth. It went really well and they are optimistic it removed everything but recovery involves a feeding tube and he didn’t want us to visit until he could talk.

    So on Wednesday I’ll see him in person for the first time in way too long. It’s stupid that it went this long. It’s not like we have any beef or bad blood, it’s all good. Thursday my oldest brother Tom will get there and the three of us will be together for the first time since 2010 (I think).

    Jim, Tom and me (Tom’s daughter’s wedding)

    It should have happened a long time ago, but I’m really glad we’re getting together, even if for a not great reason.

  • Accuracy and Aim

    Accuracy and Aim

    I was at an indoor beach volleyball venue where my daughter was playing, and in the men’s bathroom above the toilet I saw this:

    Hilarious.

  • Happy Birthday To Me

    Trek FX Sport 6

    Oh my, it’s s so crazy light. I’m going to enjoy this…

    Thank you to my awesome wife.

  • Traveling Again

    I haven’t posted this in a while, but in March I was traveling again. Both for work and family fun. Masks mostly limited to the airports and taxis:

  • Grill Your Pizza

    I like making pizza. It’s a bit silly given the incredible pizza options in Brooklyn, but it’s a fun family thing to do. My wife gave me a pizza stone for Fathers Day. The summer flew by, we were on vacation, etc. so I hadn’t tried it. Last week I finally gave it a shot. We typically make several small pizzas so we did one on the stone (on our grill) and the rest the conventional way in case it didn’t work well. I didn’t have a pizza peel to get it on/off the grill (didn’t even know it was called a peel) so I had no idea how it would work.

    It was yummy. Basically identical pizzas, but done on the grill at 600 degrees (the stone pre-heats on the grill) made the crust much better. You definitely need the pizza peel, so I ordered one from Amazon. My wife picked up a second pizza stone so we could make two at once. It only takes 5 minutes to cook at that temperature, so we can crank out 4 pizzas in 10 minutes.

    We will be grilling pizza from now on…

  • July and August

    I apparently missed posting my July Google Maps timeline, so for posterity sake, here is July and August.

    July includes some college visits (empty campus visits, very odd) and vacation in Cape Cod:

    August has even more range, but still drivable. Not sure when I’ll fly.

  • June 2020

    We are definitely venturing out. In June I got well outside of New York City. We have family in Wappingers Falls that we actually visited. I even made it to Connecticut once. Big travel.

    Let’s keep those Covid numbers down.

  • Food Coma

    Yesterday was one of our favorite days, the Atlantic Antic street fair. We live on Atlantic, so this is a mile of food, etc. right out our door. You can see previous blog posts about it.

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    My youngest daughter and I like to walk the street around 10:30 while they are setting up.

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    The corn stands are always ready early. She’s amused at having roast corn for breakfast.

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    There’s music and kid’s stuff and vendors but for me this street fair is all about food. Things I ate include:

    Spanish church food:

    Local high end butcher shop:

    • Beef Brisket
    • Pulled Pork
    • Fried Chicken (super good)

    German stand had Bauernwurst

    A Chilean street food stand was a big hit with this thing:

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    It’s a hot dog with guacamole, salsa, diced tomatoes and Merken seasoning. Yummy. There was an Italian lamb skewer stand that was awesome. And of course we had the standards, roast corn, sausage and peppers and the fried potato on a stick thing:

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    The local gumbo joint did a gator roast but I didn’t get any this year. They limited it to only being sold after 5:00 (the Antic runs from 12 – 6) and we just weren’t near there at the right time. It looked impressive:

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    Finally, this stand has been there the last few years and this year it was literally right in front of our place, the first thing we saw as we walked out the door:

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    These are Japanese octopus balls, but for the record, I did not eat Karls Balls…