So, life should be back to normal, whatever that is, after house sales and moving apartments and pie palooza. But it’s been a busy week, and I have a cold and “reading the news, and it sure looks bad”, like the Joni Mitchell song says. Way too much Paul Ryan, dismantling various WI clean government […]
After a long week, that I’m now straining to remember. Pudding, lentils, and pig, were the food themes as I recall. I know I woke up in Chicago last Sunday morning – I drove down Friday to deliver John’s new laptop. Didn’t do much that evening – stopped at John’s apartment, found a parking spot […]
Sunday morning it was the OCLC update breakfast – a chance to hear about what’s new at the big global library consortium, delivered in a talk by the president and CEO. For as long as I’ve been going to these, probably about 15 years, OCLC has had the same president, a guy named Jay […]
Last night I got home from work – the first day of my new distance students’ week-long orientation – tired and hungry. It wasn’t quite 6:00 p.m. but I decided to make myself some nice snacks and eat them while watching the new episode of vampires on HBOGo. I fed the cats early, too, so […]
For our big dinner out in New Orleans, we went to Luke, one of Chef John Besh’s places. Luke is Besh’s more casual place, in comparison to Restaurant August. It’s kind of German/French/New Orleans and heavy on the pig – in a good way. I had shrimp & grits, the shrimp and buttery grits were […]