Saturday, January 8, 2011
We ate at Cafe Chloe last night, a tiny French Bistro in San Diego. I ate two dishes from the smaller plates selection: frites with trio of sauces, and scallops with candied squash. The sauces were [basically] ranch, a spicy ketchup, and mustard. The scallops came with not only the cubed, candied squash, but also […]
Saturday, January 8, 2011
I’m in San Diego for the ALA conference, and I was struck by how space-age their convention center is – you’d think it was built in the 1960s, but it seems to be the same age as John – construction began March 1987. I used the movie camera in my iPhone to try to capture […]
I started Sunday with a walk – on the cold side, and no one was out but me and the ice fishermen. Since we’ve had such dramatic highs and lows in temperature – on New Year’s eve day, it went up to almost 50°, and then got really windy and dropped to like 17° in […]
Saturday, January 1, 2011
New year’s day is always kind of a different day, and this year it’s a Saturday that feels like a Sunday. Al came in confused saying he couldn’t get the Packer game on the car radio while he was driving back from Chicago; he thought it was because all the stations were playing the Badger […]