This weekend, my friend Jason and I spent some time at the shooting range, including teaching my wife how to shoot. You should see her handle a .45!

Jason also spends some time hunting wild boar in Oklahoma, and was nice enough to bring some wild boar sausage over to our house. As I pondered what to do with it, it became quite clear that I could only compliment such a noble beast with more pork. A quick scan of the fridge yielded some pork tenderloin and bacon. Perfect.

Step 1. Butterly pork loin.

Step 2. Mix bread stuffing and wild boar sausage.

Step 3. Stuff and roll.

Step 4. Wrap in bacon.

Step 5. On to the Big Green Egg!

Step 6. Beers.

Step 7. Slice into heaven.

The "boarconloin" is on the left in these photos. The smaller loin on the right was stuffed with bread stuffing, cream cheese, and apples. It was also very tasty.

Last night I went and saw one of my favorite bands of all time at the Uptown. Third Eye Blind.

Great show, as always, and there were a couple of surprises. First, the new songs off the coming album sound just great. A year or two ago I heard "bonfire" the last time they were in town, but last night there were a couple more.

I was slightly disappointed, yet excited, at this odd medley they did, mashing up songs such as Red Summer Sun, 1000 Julys, Good for You, and a few others. It was high energy and fun, but I do love some of those songs and they seemed to sell them short a bit.

And a closing with Motorcycle Drive-by, God of Wine, and The Background is always awesome.

There's nothing that really bothers me more than finding odd, buggy features in software and then discovering it happens by design. This happened to me today with SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.

This afternoon, one of my SQL developers came to saying he was having a problem with his new install of SQL Server 2008 Management Studio. Since we are only beginning our move to SQL 2008 from 2005, I had not yet experienced this problem myself. He expanded the Stored Procedures node under one of our main databases and was presented with the following message:

"See object explorer details for objects in this folder"

And of course, no stored procedures were shown in the treeview. Same story with the tables in another database. My immediate reaction was that this had to be a problem with the studio, as I had not seen this on my development machine; but I had also not looked at the same database. Naturally, I go back to my development machine, connect to the same server and database and find I have the same problem.

After a bit of research, I learn this is actually a "feature" brought to us by our friends at Microsoft. http://connect.microsoft.com/SQL/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=362453

For the life of me, I still can't figure this one out. My production databases are not enormous, but large (1tb+) and there are well over 2,000 tables and over 2,000 stored procedures. Clearly, I'm a victim of this "feature."

The big question for me, is that if this is such a giant issue, why have I never had a single issue with loading this many items into the treeview in SQL 2005 Management Studio!!??

i got my swim trunks, and my flippy-floppies.

 http://www.hulu.com/watch/56632/saturday-night-live-digital-short-im-on-a-boat

My wife and I have just returned from an all too short, but well-deserved long weekend / vacation. I have a very good friend and co-worker who has a home in the Santa Ynez Valley who was gracious enough to rent us her house for a few days for a getaway.

The Santa Ynez Valley, and it's quaint towns such as Los Alamos, Solvang, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos, Buellton, and some others are famously known for their great vineyards. Not to be confused with the Napa Valley, my friend Kathryn says "Napa makes auto parts. Santa Ynez makes great wine!" This statement couldn't be closer to the truth.

The area is also known quite well as the setting for the movie Sideways. I will admit, it's on my list of favorite all time movies - and I'm somewhat related to one of the writers (who's worked with Alexander Payne on other movies - I've never met him, but my dad knows his dad, etc, etc...), but the locals seem to have a love / hate relationship with it. I found that while out there, being able to say we were staying at a local friend's house got us much further than saying "oh, we just loved the movie and had to come out!" which, believe it or not, I heard a lot. In fact, when we decided to go out, I didn't even realize the association with the movie until after I had booked tickets, all on our friend's claims of how much she loves living there.

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