Evidence Review Weekend...

For the first time ever (well...in the almost-2 years I've been investigating the paranormal) I am AHEAD OF SCHEDULE for reviewing evidence for our current case!!! :D

The last few times I have procrastinated until Sunday, then found I didn't have enough time to look at/listen to everything. But this weekend I spend a day celebrating the Toy Story franchise (which I blogged about), then I made myself a pot of coffee and some breakfast...

SIDEBAR:
I do not recommend Fettuccine and White Clam Sauce. I saw some in HEB yesterday and I'm thinking "I like white sauce! I like sea food! White Clam Sauce must be a culinary gift from God!!!"

It's not.

(By the way, I haven't tried the Red Clam Sauce, but I don't think it's the color that's the problem, I suspect it's the clam.)

I boiled up a big pot of fettuccine, baked a Michael Angelo's Eggplant Parmesan (always a winner, whether you bake it or nuke it!), and opened a package of Hawaiian Bread dinner rolls my li'l bro' bought for me, and I was fully prepared to be both entranced and delighted.

I had maybe 5 bites of the Fettuccine with White Clam Sauce before I had to give it up as a failure.

Now, keep in mind that I can boil up fettuccine, top it with butter and Parmesan Cheese, and enjoy it like it was fresh from Romano's Macaroni Grill! (Well...you know...maybe Olive Garden.) I've eaten fettuccine with every type of Alfredo sauce available in grocery stores, and thoroughly enjoyed the meal!

(I don't recommend Walmart's Great Value brand Alfredo sauce, though...it kind of sneaks up on you afterward.)

AND, on top of my love of pasta is the fact that I simply do not waste food. (If you haven't read my blog in a while, I don't really have tons of money to throw around.) So abandoning half my meal is simply not something I do easily. (I once made Kraft Mac & Cheese and dumped a bunch of Cajun seasoning on it, hoping to make it special. It was not special; it was painful; but I believe I choked a lot of it down. And a box of Macaroni & Cheese is about a quarter of the price of White Clam Sauce and a box of fettuccine.)

How can I describe this? Clam Sauce tastes, roughly, like the sea.

Not like seaweed, or salty, or like water...but like the sea. Have you ever gone out to the beach, run out into the waves, gotten pulled under by the undertow and swallowed half a lungful of water? That's kind of how Clam Sauce tastes.

Or if you've ever seen The Perfect Storm, those fishing boats those guys are on? Clam Sauce tastes the way those fishing boats look.

END OF SIDEBAR.

So I made myself a pot of coffee (which I'm drinking with Chocolate Mint Truffle creamer tonight) and a big breakfast of Italian (style) food, then settled into a night of evidence review. I listened to my hourS (notice the capital "S") of audio footage and a NotePad document (for taking notes) and listened.

And now I'm done! :D

Had I put it off until tomorrow (well, later today, but I haven't been to sleep yet) I would probably be wrapping up the evening with hurried notes to my teammates explaining how I would find time before or after work over the next few days to finish my listening.

But -- probably since I didn't procrastinate (much) this time -- I had time to review a bunch of pictures taken during the investigation, too!

Now I have a video camera angle to review tomorrow, and there may be some more audio that needs to be listened to. But for now, I can kick back and goof off until I fall asleep!!! :D

I just got this AWESOME audiobook: UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On The Record by Leslie Keane. (I bought the physical book a month ago, but haven't cracked the spine yet because the physical book I'm still reading now is Stan Romanek's Messages. I usually have one (or two) physical books that I'm working on and an audiobook. A like listening to the audiobooks while I'm playing videogames or driving or whatnot.) So I may listen to some On The Record for a while to relax.

I hope your weekend is going GROOVY!!!

:D