So. My wife's out of town.  We haven't spent a night apart since we started dating...  Before she left, I was wondering what I would do with my evenings while she's gone. Last night I found out...

I watched the first 10 minutes of “2 Fast 2 Furious” on cable.  I listened to .NET Rocks!  Live.  (no google weirdos again, BTW) and I had adventures in barbecuing.  Here's how it all went down:

See, I've been on a quest to make the perfect Pizza.    I've experimented with different dough, etc. But never can get that great NYC thin bubbly crust.  I recently realized that my oven just doesn't get hot enough.  So, I've been thinking of how I can get a hotter oven.  I then realized that this new BBQ grill I got gets really really hot, like 500 something degrees.  Could I make a pizza on my grill?  I decided find out if this would work...

Now, of course I couldn't put the pizza directly on the grill, and luckily I have a pizza stone, that I placed on the grill, on which I could put my pizza.  So I let the grill heat up, checking the temp now and then.

I got my pizza all ready to go.  I went to place it on the grill, but the grill was so hot I couldn't get near it!  Then I realized I needed one of those wooden pizza paddles to allow me to safely place this pizza onto the inferno that I managed to create in my backyard.

Enter the power tools.  I went down in the basement and quickly cut out of plywood a makeshift pizza paddle using my radial arm saw.  Went back upstairs and put some flour on it, and used it to slide the pizza onto the grill.  Worked like a charm.

About 3 minutes later, literally, the pizza was done.  It looked beautiful! Perfect, bubbly crust!  Until I looked at the bottom, which was burnt to a crisp.  So, back to the drawing board.  I think I can get this to work.  I just have to put the pizza stone in later on in the process.  

Did I mention there was a bit of wine involved?  Anyhow. Luckily I didn't burn the house down or cut my arm off in the process. I did eat the burnt pizza.  What else was I going to do? Starve?