Archive for April, 2006

good mood, good food, good tunes

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

In a great mood tonight, for no particular reason. Had a great talk with Claudia about the quest for meaning in one’s work, relationships, singing along in the car… and then I went to MicroCenter to buy SATA cables, and to Seoul Food to get take out tofu-bi-bim-bap, and then to corwin’s […]

Hurried dinner

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

semi-improvised sesame/peanut noodles with asparagus and tofu.
gently cooked brussels sprouts, tossed with a little mustard-butter.

Kate is a total sport and remains willing to try the brussels sprouts I prepare, but even when they’ve been cooked in salted water just until bright green and toothsome and have not a trace of that sulfurous awfulness […]

doing the right thing tastes like cough syrup, sometimes

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Family commitments trump commitments to friends. I know that. It’s still a bummer when they directly collide, as in the case of a family wedding and a reunion of much-beloved friends being scheduled two timezones apart on the same weekend.

Paul Ford is my new favorite writer

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Green Apples Will Explode (Ftrain.com)
“I was so young; we were so poor; there was so much mercury in the tuna.” What a line. Here’s a snippet from one of his excellent, excellent, entries. I like his writing an awful lot, and yipes, he’s pretty much the same age as me, leading to […]

Pack your mind and the rest will follow

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Kate and I moved up here in the fall of 2004, and made a deal with each other: we’d stay for a minimum of 2 years. Kate really wanted to spend a decent length of time at this, her first job as a full-fledged NNP, and I was happy to commit to it — […]