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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The other night some friends (Steve & Heike) came over for dinner. I guess it was still a bit of fallout from having the cookie party on blizzard night – they had not made the party. Last year, the year of the broken thumb for cookie season, Heike was my kitchen manager for the party. […]
We just had a Christmas dinner that couldn’t be beat – and the clean up took much less time than either Thanksgiving or the cookie party. We ate pork roast, mashed potatoes & celery root, sweet sour purple cabbage, and roasted green beans. And for dessert, orange flan that I flamed with Grand Marnier, and […]
For starters, we walked to Starbucks for coffee. Mark predicted it would be packed and it was, and largely our demographic – mom & dad out for coffee until the kids come back for Christmas. We sat down at a shared table, and when the other person already sitting there raised her head, it was […]
Despite my prediction of a grey Christmas turning out to be premature – we have a couple of inches of new white stuff that has been slowly accumulating since morning – Christmas Eve Day has provided probably equal parts of Christmas-y and UN-Christmas-y glimpses: Mark on his knees next to the couch by his ailing […]
Since it’s the week before Christmas, I went to work-related holiday parties the last two nights. The first was at the home of two of the younger faculty members in my department, so it was a collection of mostly 30- and 40-something professional people, some in their 20s, a fair number of kids in the […]
So Saturday the 11th was the blizzard; all last week it stayed cold. Then last night, we got a few more inches of snow, that changed to freezing rain. Now it’s about about 32 degrees, and seems like we’re getting all set to have the same kind of grey, slushy Christmas we had last year. […]