the brisket Journal

there may be lots of things you might not understand/care about that i wrote down. this was hand-written on a stenobook, so that i could have a map of how to repeat it, if it was good or change something, if it wasnt. what a great day!

~not everything was written by me after 10pm... this is the Journal from 1st brisket on Labor day 2008~

1am – drain and rub, get fire started and soak wood

1:45 – add wood

2am – brisket@230 degrees

3:30 – add charcoal 230 degrees

4-5am – fell asleep, temp 145-150, fire is smothered (IDIOT) problem: closed vents most of the way

5:30 – new coal, temp 240 half vents

5:45 – shut-up birds + guy @ Dunkies + busses

6am – back on track, temp 230, vents ¼, laid back down, sleep

7:30 – start more charcoal, temp 210, vents wide open. Moved bed to shade

8am – with vents open temp 230 no need for charcoal, let burn for a while and drop embers in
How about a bagle and some good tunes? Deal
Let line die down a bit, Might As Well.
the Neighbor comes out to eat breakfast

8:30 – no need for embers, temp 245, vents closed

9am – temp 230, vents wide open, shook up embers, before they Fade Away.
The Dunkies line is HUGE!!

10am – still cranking, temp 230,
Broke my new temp gauge, sorry Wife! I love you + thanks but it’s gotta go back.
HA! Look at all you people struggling to get to work on time, hustling to go somewhere.

10:07 – saw a truck that would beat up DSL’s! Even the box looked tougher...

10:13 – Sleeves checking in, temp 235
chick in orange dunkies shirt nearly got splattered by large town truck

11am – still fired up, temp 220, vents wide open(it looks Amazing)
made bad mother-in-law joke
internal temp target is 185deg. to store in cooler

12pm – new coal started, temp 240, wrapped it in foil 179deg.
the wife has been kicking my ass in beer pong 2x then I swept her 3 in a row
new gadget works again and beeps. Alot!

12:30 – Sleeves arrives, temp 220, vents wide open,
the wife is cleaning

1pm – temp 240, half vents

1:30 – 186deg. placed in cooler, up to 188deg. then cooler idea fails, drops down 178deg.

1:45 – new coals and back into the Smoker
Tony was here for 20 minutes and apologized for not hanging out

2:15 – made up a story about the IceMan punching a cop & driving the cruiser into the Res.
vents wide open

3pm – IceMan cometh, temp 230, 184deg. about to close vents all the way

4:30 – vents wide open, temp 180, 188deg new coal about to go in
Srgt Boneface’s here, what a tan!!

5pm – Salon Worker and the Neighbors are here, temp 230 179deg. up from 176deg.
Beth’s chasing a dragon(harrowing day)

5:30 – DSL spins his tires and snubs us again. Temp 200, 178deg. light more coal only ¼ can

6pm – add new coal, temp 230, 177deg.
bunch of birds, called Whittle, no answer

6:01 – “Finnie loves to Smoke Meat” Srgt Boneface

6:05 – the Neighbor stares down a work truck with his dog, temp 250, 178deg.
new gadget “Its nearly done…Again”
Beened whupped in pong. All night.

6:20 – sauce ready, 188deg. vents wide open
Rag on Shepmobile
Add wood for Smoke effect on the Deck
Brisket resting

7pm – no dice on smoke effect
Srgt Boneface is doing lines of gunpowder off a superior officers desk.

7:20 – ETA on Beth 10-15 minutes, foods on though and Smoke at full Capacity

7:30 – Heidi, Heather+Steve, Scottie the Body+3dudes arrive

8:15 – Beth here, this the first time i have looked up from my plate, the food is awesome!!

8:30 – Salon Worker is back+her teacher friend shows up

9:30 – DSL & his huge Toe arrive, clear table and start pong again, Sleeves and i run the table 3x and make 5 out of 6 to close out the last game

9:45 – burnt ends into smoker+beat everyone in pong

10-11:25 – start flip cup tourney, Timmy shows up in a cab, Caveman vouches for him, turns out it was drunktimmy who grabs the wife in front of me, she jumps, i ask drunktimmy not grab her before I can, i kick a chair over in jest, we are losing a lot, then we are winning a lot, thanks drunktimmy…

11:25 – game of flip cup going on, these guys are retarded.
Brackett Brilliance wins 6-7 in a row
tough gut Shep?

11:34 – cops came, for the 1st time ever

11:45 – the wife kicked the cops out, they wanted to come over earlier
DSL+huge Toe leave, no end in sight(poor prick)

12:12 – a guest said “Finnie made the Best BBQ ever”

12:15 – “Finnie, you are the most ridiculous thing” a great friend

12:22 – “did you just breathe in some Finnie?” Shep

12:27 – Parties over, i said something stupid latenight(shocker)
a great friend+Srgt Boneface offended
Srgt Boneface throws a bottle across the street
Shep takes Srgt Boneface with him

~at 12:34 - i wrote an apology to the great friend but struck it from the record at 2pm the following day because i received a call from my great friend and she apologized “you actually made me laugh” and Srgt Boneface called me to hang out about 10 minutes later. all was forgiven and forgotten about (till now i guess)~

And that was the 1st brisket, there has been 1 other and there Will be many more…

~Life is Short, Get into it~