I’m putting the finishing touches on this post on Halloween Wednesday, and I still am not quite recovered. When we got back from the librarian’s conference on Thursday, I baked a giant chocolate cake for Susan’s Dad’s 90th. I decided to substitute 7-minute frosting for the whipped cream filling – that’s the kind that’s whipped […]
Not sure if it actually is, but that’s what Meredith said yesterday when we were driving here. “Here” is LaCrosse WI and the conference is the Wisconsin Library Association. The library school does a booth, we’re doing resume reviews, and all the usual networking, schmoozing, recruiting – I’m not presenting at this one, though. There […]
October 22 is School Woods official birthday – at least it’s the date of the very first dinner I put on there in 2006. For School Woods 6th, I put on a Sunday Supper. Fifteen diners, and a lovely time had by all. I think I liked the chicken filo rolls better than the veg […]
We’re at the Isthmus Food & Wine Show – so far we’ve tried the AJ Bombers slider version of their special Madison burger, that comes on Stella’s spicy cheese bread with fried pickles, Graze potato gnocchi with sweet potatoes & tiny Brussels sprouts, Willy St Co-op s’more cupcake, sassy cow ice cream, and we split […]
Well, I started this post yesterday evening, when Mark & I were sitting at the Sundance theater, waiting for Mary Poppins to start. They’re doing a series of classics, besides Mary, Gone with the Wind; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Young Frankenstein, etc. Mark’s ex-wife and her guy were there, too, which was sort embarrassing […]
On Saturday, I went up to Reedsburg to assist Terese Allen with a cooking class, demoing recipes from a couple of her books, for the fermentation fest. I made green tomato mincemeat bars – moist and hard to cut, but really yummy. Too bad it was such a rainy day, but I enjoyed the drive, […]
On Monday when we got back from Ohio, I made a pasta with the cooked broccoli that was sitting in the fridge, a piece of butternut squash that I cubed and roasted, and some of the oven dried tomatoes – the container that had the drier ones that I did not freeze. And the ends […]
The LITA Forum wrapped up on Sunday with a virtual presentation from Sarah Houghton, the librarian in black, titled Library Future: Star Trek or Starbucks? Sarah was really good when she stuck to the Starbucks analogy – what could libraries do better if we did it more like Starbucks? – but towards the end, she […]
On Saturday, I think probably the best conference programs for me were the Ben Schneiderman keynote and a session on public library website redesign, taking a broad view – looking at service redesign, what services the library can provide through its website, not simply improving the look of the site – tho that was a […]
I started writing this sitting in my third presentation session at the 2012 LITA Forum (library conference). But that program was pretty interesting so I stopped. Now, on the other hand, I am watching an earnest librarian showing us her slides in the presenter mode. She did just say “I know this is kind of […]