yeah, so OSX’s Sherlock comes with Systrans translating software. It’s fun. I use it too often. I expect a spanish speaker to tell me what’s what with this phrase.
So, as you might have gathered from the title, last night was sushi night over at Keith’s. I helped with prepping the fish, getting things cut and mixed and whatnot. I rolled up one veggie roll, went to have a cigarette (i know, I quite, but the beer was flowing freely and you know how that goes) and I didn’t have to do anything else. Nice.
The thing is, everyone knows how to make sushi nowadays, it’s the thing to do. There were 8 of us and I think 6 knew how to and wanted to roll and I was happy to finally step out of the kitchen and let people go for it. Of course this would never happen in my own kitchen, I’m too much of a kitchen control freak for that, but in someone else’s house I’m cool.
As per usual, there was more fish and therefore more sushi than is healthy for people to eat. I’m pretty sure that David almost got rice poisoning or something from all the sushi he ate. At one point we did try to convince keith to overdose on wasabi so we could take him to the hospital.
I brought my wasabi to this shindig. I use Penzey’s wasabi, not the pure stuff, just the natural stuff. It’s what we all know and love and why change. Thing is, Penzeys makes one hell of a strong wasabi and when people are used to the wiener wasabi that comes with the pre-packaged sushi at the grocery store, this stuff can be downright painful. Doesn’t matter how many times you warn people, though, they don’t listen. Love that eye-popping buzz from across the table. I love wasabi. Love it. Love it but don’t want to be in huge pain so i am all about moderation with the crazy Penzey’s wasabi.
After dinner we had green tea (or mango for the boring folks) mochi, ice cream balls wrapped in a sheet of glutinous rice. yum. also yum.
We watched 30 second movie re-enactments and then tried to introduce them to Happy Tree Friends, but I think that didn’t go over so well. I don’t know, I was highly amused.
Late night, fun times, I need a nap.
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A Jar Of Pickles
My boss’ baby was finally born. Beautiful little boy, Rhett William. So very cute. With him on paternity leave I am left in charge, this allows me to sit in his chair, spin wildly and chant “i’m in charge…i’m in charge…” or so he told me in an email.
I’m apparently the go-to girl for travel dining. People are always saying “i’m going to this place…where should I eat”. That’s me, I have the answer (as long as i’ve been there). I do, however, avoid recommending the rat infested restaurant that Mark took me to (grumble grumble grumble…I don’t care how good the food was!). I wish I could remember name of the place on Lincoln in Miami Beach that I had lunch at when I was there. The BEST miso glazed salmon i have ever has. I’ve been trying to emulate the recipe ever since then. My trip to the Keys (oh, did I mention the Keys again…I DID) will also be a culinary tour. A culinary tour taken on scooters!
I’ve been messing up ‘you’re’ and ‘your’ again. It’s not that I don’t know the difference, i’m just typing it wrong.
last Friday I upgraded firefox on my computer at work. It upgraded nicely, pulled all my bookmarks and cookies over. I was happy. This morning i get to work, all of my bookmarks and cookies are gone and it won’t import my bookmarks from the previous version. Weird.
My t-rex tattoo is finally being designed. Hooray! I can’t wait to see the final result. My coworkers rule…
sometimes…they do not rule when they have this long drawn out pissing contest about how to properly install a toilet. I’m so fucking sick of this argument, i’m so fucking sick of telling them to shut the fuck up and go away. I don’t want to hear about it.
damn, I wish I had time to take the dog to the park, it’s such a beautiful day, I’m sure he’d have a great time, but alas, I’ve got dinner with the sister and the semisonic boy. I need to bring a bunch of stuff to dinner (wasabi…rolling mat…dvds…david…) I’m sure I will forget something.
blah blah blah nothing more interesting today.
proximity
1) If you want to win at a card game you haven’t played before, your best bet is to NOT figure out everyone’s strategy and in fact make an effort to not know what they are doing. Those three were so used to each other and their playing style it was too easy to predict. I come in, I’d only played one other time and I did fairly well because they couldn’t figure out my damned strategy. I had no strategy.
2) Let’s welcome Alan back into the game. I’m still not sure what my “somewhat hands-off way” of encouragement is, but I’ll take it as a compliment. I will keep on him to update his website as often as I can.
3) Easter dinner at my dad’s place. We went for a walk around the lake after and I was not wearing walking shoes. I’m paying the price.
4) Sushi with my sister and her boyfriend and the couple that introduced them to each other. April’s boyfriend reminds me of a Semisonic song. Not a specific one, just maybe Keith is the guy in a Semisonic song, except with a better apartment.
5) I made a quiche to bring to easter dinner and could not eat it. I love eggs, i generally like quiche, but every once in a while I look at eggs and my stomach turns. I don’t know why, by all accounts the quiche should have been tasty, but the texture of everything put together seemed wrong all of a sudden. Good thing there was so much ham.
6) the good and bad thing about dating vegetarians is that I don’t eat nearly as much meat as I would like.
7) the countdown to the Keys has made me intolerable. I spent 15 minutes discussing my excitement regarding riding scooters around town. Also, the highest point in the Keys is 18 feet above sea level. I will conquer this.
8) bedtime, I’m exhausted. I promise to catch up on phone calls and emails this week. Peas Out.
Christ is risen
I’m saddened that www.UnholyAlliance.com (as is .net and .org) is taken, that would have rocked.
I’m not doing easter for people this year (please stop asking). Going to my dad’s tomorrow. My contribution is potato gratin (no mushrooms) and a quiche with spinach, artichoke hearts and goat cheese.
Beautiful day today, good day for chillin. Wish it wasn’t so windy, though. Dog got to get all up in the faces of other dogs, good for him. Speaking of the dog, 1) he has learned the secrets of tubalcain and 2) he does not like it when you act like you have a mouth full of rotten milk that you can’t spit out (this really upsets him).
ummm….in other not-so-intersting news….
I knitted a purse, didn’t like the outcome, took it apart, started it again but with a ribbed pattern, don’t like that either. I think it might actually be the yarn. I’m going to give this another inch or so and see how I feel.
I need to stop watching animated series dvd’s. Between Family Guy and The Simpsons my dream world has become rather unsettling. Worse yet, everything I write is recited by Stewie. dang.
I’m off to game night!
Happy 500th
Here we are at the 500th post*
HUZZAH
Or something.
On Feb 19, 2001 just before 2pm I made my first and second completely pointless posts. Four years, 500 posts, an average of 125 posts a year. It doesn’t work out exactly as there was a lull in there where I barely posted for months at a time.
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, shall we?
The infamous Toblerone post, the one that got me my first batch of fan mail from people I did not know. People enjoy Toblerone and they like to read about it too!
I used to write haiku all the time. I don’t so much anymore, I think everyone is okay with that.
Of course, anyone who’s been around since the beginning will remember the ant farm and all of it’s glory! Let’s relive the joy of the ants one more time…
aaaaw yeah
I was always this cranky
I wrote smaller posts more frequently. It was probably healthier that way instead of the less frequent big pushes of today. There were not, however, any more coherent (no…really).
Lengthier posts found me examining the mysteries of the world around me
Surprisingly, there have only ever been 2 "Very Special" Episodes
Episode 1(to be fixed)
Episode 2(also to be fixed)
There are plans for a 3rd episode, I just havent gotten around to it. It will most likely feature pictures from my phone or something equally fascinating.
Too many trips have been documented on here for me to list them all. Suffice to say, I wish I was better at travel blogging since I do travel a lot, but I do document as much as I can.
Oh, um…centipedes.
I think about the things you’re too sober to think about.
I posted a picture of a potato with an odd shape once. It felt like the visual highlight of my year! Until I posted this, or any of the various holiday pictures, dog pictures or upskirts.
In mid 2002 you start to really see a decline in my general happiness and in the number of posts. Nothing specific to link to, really, just more evidence in the “Hindsight is 20/20″game. I was not happy and it shows in little ways that I hadn’t noticed until Ethan pointed it out to me a few months ago.
I have loved and I have lost and I recovered.
After this point there is a definite upswing in the frequency of posting. The halfway point happened less than 1 1/2 years ago. The last year has been dense!
My posts about David were sparse in the beginning, partially because I didn’t want to jinx anything, partially because I like to hold things like this close and quiet to me in the beginning and partially because it wasn’t any of your damned business, anyway! Sometimes, though, I couldn’t resist.
And everything since has been so recent you can see it easily. It’s not exciting, but it’s mine. It’s not me, just one angle of me, for as much as I say, there’s much that I keep to myself.
Happy 500th post to me!
*The post count is off, with the shift from the old to the new a (very) few posts got deleted or combined and also I found a curious few post numbers with no posts, something odd in the db. We’ll keep this at 500.