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 […]
For the last 7 years, since October of 2006, I’ve been operating an underground dining club. I am a small time landlord. I own two two-flats, one on the west side of Madison where I live and the other on the east side of Madison where I rent the upstairs and do the supper club […]
In the past I’ve ranted about how I don’t really like clafouti. No matter how carefully I bake it, it has a tendency to be rubbery, at least made with any other fruit besides apples. There’s an apple clafouti recipe from Saveur that I used to make for breakfast when the John & Al lived […]
Data Flow Diagrams. I am taking a systems analysis and design class, in order to help me develop a new course for the Library School, to be offered for the first time in spring 2014, “Designing Information Systems”. The unit we are on now is data flow diagrams. In theory, I really like the idea […]
I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. I think it’s sinuses. I am sitting at the computer with a sore throat and tired. I am going to do a bullet list recap of what’s been cooking since last Thursday, and add pictures later. Thursday: CSA demo – mmm the […]
Over the course of the summer, I’ve done three little lunchtime sessions for CSA box subscribers at a company here that makes furnace filters and dehumidifiers – air cleaning systems, basically.They have like 40 employees who are getting CSA boxes this year. The sessions aren’t really cooking classes – I just get a box when […]
Since Mark got retired, we decided to become domestic partners, so that we could use each other’s benefits sequentially. The way it works in WI is that you do an Affidavit for Domestic Partnership, state form ET-2371. Then you submit the form to the Dept. of Employee Trust Funds, the state agency that manages our […]
– even faster than usual. The government is shutdown; the debt ceiling is looming – and what’s that going to do to my stock portfolio!??; my #1 son that I sent off to grad school so proudly barely a month ago is not too happy there; they’re predicting huge thunderstorms, unusual for October, and I […]
With apologies to Dave Edmunds. [and this was only started when it was almost Saturday night; finished on Sunday] I guess, since I haven’t written since Wednesday, and even then was writing about Sunday – we are due for a wrap-up. Wednesday was Mark’s birthday. We took him out for dinner at Pig in a […]
Years ago there was a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about not just seize the day, seize the day and throttle it. I don’t think it’s this one is exactly – rather than Calvin in the tub, I think it had Hobbes all tattered & torn. I went to the Willy Street Fair on Sunday morning, […]