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Leftovers

So my master plan of last weekend, cooking all the vegetables I could, seems to have worked. Mark and Rach and I had tomato gratin and eggs and fruit on Sunday morning; I did make the Smitten Kitchen one – but I used leftover garlic toast and much less Parmesan, instead of cubing and frying […]

Disconnected in Vegas

So Las Vegas for the librarians’ conference was a trip. I am glad I experienced the place. Some of the interior spaces were incredible – like the inside of the Venetian and Mandalay Bay. And we had some very good, but expensive meals. I think my favorite was Thomas Keller’s Bouchon. But Border Grill (Mary […]

Paid $8 Blues

I paid to get better wifi on our Southwest flight to Las Vegas for the librarian’s conference – but it’s not that much better. Takes a long time to access pages, and doing things like spell check on my comments on student work in the dropbox in the UW’s Learn@UW courseware can be really painful. […]

WI Public Library Conference

I’m in Sheboygan for the state public library conference, half-listening to a panel of earnest librarians discussing the Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. Later today I am on another panel of earnest librarians, discussing non-fiction books. I am doing food writing. With no technology – we’re going to be talking and holding up books. OK. I […]

Indianapolis, pt. 2

So when we got here, the librarians were sharing the conference area with dishwasher soap salesman – EcoLab. Now the Big 10 tournament folks are coming in – I think I waited in the Starbucks line with Penn State staff this morning. Starbucks in the Onmi Hotel, so one of the nicer hotels, and there […]

Indianapolis

  I’m in Indianapolis for the Public Library Association Conference. We drove down Tuesday, leaving Madison at noon. It was 68° when we got to Indy last night – but the forecast was awful – 2 – 4 inches of heavy wet snow by 4:00 PM on Weds. It was an easy drive – we […]

A long and outta whack week

  Our last day in Philadelphia, we went to the new Barnes Museum. I know there is a faction who believe that the collection should never have been wrested from Dr. Barnes cold dead hands – there’s even a documentary about it – but honestly, Barnes was such a control freak. He  wanted to utterly […]

In Philadelphia with the librarians

So let’s see – got here on Thursday night around 9:00 – the plane landed around 7:45 but it took kind of a while to get into the city and checked in to the room. We’ve been spoiled by staying at boutique hotels like Kimptons. This is an Embassy Suites – huge cavernous space with […]

Weekend cooking –

But it’s Tuesday … oh well. We went to our state library conference in Green Bay last week, drove up early on Weds. to get there in time to see Chip Kidd, and just stayed one night. We had dinner at a place called Chives – kind of a gastro pub, casual feel and good […]

Tuesday getting ready to go home from Chicago

Mark went back yesterday, a day early, because his cat escaped out of a second floor window – silly kitty. She’s a de-clawed Maine coon, so she looks big, but she’s only about 10 months old so still a bit kitten-dumb. And loose on the neighbor hood with raccoons and dogs. Our kids looked for […]