It’s been a delightful day – and last night was fun, too. We had dinner with the gang at San Remo, a nice little Italian place not far from our house. After dinner (and a somewhat disappointing tiramisu), we took advantage of the balmy evening and walked around the shopping center for a bit. They have a lovely lake with fountains there, so it was a pleasant setting. We packed it in early and came home, where takaza scanned in pictures and I futzed around on the net.
We had an early start this morning for a nice round of shopping with Franklin and Rob. We hit United Restaurant Supply, where I got two half-sheet baking pans and one full sheet pan (for $16 total! Yowza!), then it was over to a nice little Italian market where we picked up some pasta and other items (and then a stop by Krispy Kreme across the street. Evil, evil place!). After that, it was off to a barbecue grill store to see what they had in the way of outdoor gas burners (Alton Brown gave us some good ideas in his show about squid). Looks like we can get a burner for about $50, and a nice wok would be another $20-30 or so. Hmmm…interesting ideas for our Memorial Day party…
After that we made the obligatory stops by Best Buy and Circuit City to look for a DirecTV/TiVo combo for Franklin (they were out). After that it was back here to finish scanning pictures and putting up the website with our commitment ceremony pictures on it, then a nice evening of eating dinner while watching pretty pups on Animal Planet.
Boring married life at its finest 🙂
(Alton Brown gave us some good ideas in his show about squid).
Hey, I watched that today, too… 🙂
Good Eats is Your Friend
We’re big fans of Good Eats – in fact, was going to get some friends Alton’s salt cellar for Christmas, except that they sold out in the blink of an eye.
By the way: Hi Jule! I don’t think we’ve met, but it’s a pleasure to see you around. Looking through your interest list, I see an amusing number of subjects that really should be on my list. Let’s see, we’ve got anthropomorphic fiction, anuna, big band jazz, buttery nipples (evil things, those are!), calvin & hobbes, celtic music, champagne, charles delint (preferably early stuff, though), clannad, cooking, diversity, dogs, folk music, green tea, hard cider (Woodpecker, please), harry potter, herbs, hottubbing, hurdy gurdies (yay Nigel Eaton!), julia child, junkyard wars, katherine hepburn, kevin smith, massage, mead, monty python, moxy fruvous, muppets, npr, paganism, reading, recipes, role playing, scandinavian music, schipperkes (my parents have one – she’s lovely), science fiction, scrabble, society for creative anachronism, squirrel nut zippers, steeleye span, urban fantasy, urban legends, varttina, zoos, and zydeco
You get bonus points for the Hedningarna mention in your journal 🙂 Which reminds me, I really should check and see what’s new on the Omnium website these days. Anyway, good to meet you!
Re: Hurdy gurdies
Have you heard of William Pint and Felicia Dale? They do folk music, specializing in nautical music but not exclusively. Ms Dale plays the hurdy gurdy which adds a beautifully haunting sound to some of the songs they perform. I first heard them at the Bristol Renaissance Faire a couple of years ago and absolutely fell in love with their music.