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#1 Son

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

John updated his website, and one of his shots reminded me of something.

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Feels like it’s Thursday already

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

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 […]

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Fall Semester Family Dinner Night

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Back in February, I did a Slow Food UW Family Dinner Night (looks like it was the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday). It was fun, and I wanted to do it again, and got scheduled to cook last night, October 1. It was the same routine: shop at the market Saturday, prep on Sunday afternoon, […]

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Time shifted

Monday, July 2, 2012

I saw a newspaper headline today that said that the mid-week 4th of July holiday is confusing would-be vacationers & tourists – it’s too hard to make the Wednesday 4th add into a 3- or 4-day weekend, and nobody wants to burn the extra days off work, or figure out when to travel, when to […]

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We know how to party

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Last night we hosted our exchange student’s farewell graduation BBQ. It was a really nice party – lots of pleasant young people, and one whole family, our neighbors from up the street, who also have a graduating senior daughter, so there were some grown ups for me & Mark. We asked people to bring something […]

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My kitchen at night

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Applesauce and crême caramel are cooking – you can smell the applesauce, but the crême, not so much. Thurston Moore on the iPod. Cat stomping around on the counter, seeking food. The applesauce and custard are for Joëlle’s graduation going away BBQ tomorrow. She wanted applesauce to go with the brats because in Holland that’s […]

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Sisyphean

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

I just don’t think I’ll ever catch up, and this being perpetually sick stuff doesn’t help either. I finished grading Monday at about 5:30, came home and made some dinner, and mostly laid around. Watched the Game of Thrones I’d been too sleepy to really see on Sunday. And then this morning at 7:00 a.m. […]

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Oh my

Sunday, May 20, 2012

The past week has been a blur of meetings, job candidates and yet another fucking cold. And oh yea, it’s fucking hot, too – 88° as I write this, on Sunday afternoon. Sitting on the bed next to Mark as we try to decide if we need to take him to urgent care – he […]

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Saved

Sunday, April 15, 2012

This morning I took some potatoes that looked like this: And made them look like this: And then we ate them with this: Quite satisfying, really. Al did ask if I’d bought like 45 pounds of asparagus, because “you’ve been putting it in everything, mom”. He’s right – we had shrimp & asparagus pasta last […]

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Pent up demand

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Since the winter dinners at School Woods have not been selling – no winter – and because her fiancé is in town, Rach and I hijacked one of the dates, and threw a cocktail party. There was a really nice crowd, somewheres above 30 people plus a lot of little kids toddling and crawling and […]

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