Doug's Project 365

Here’s Weird Al at Tanglewood, as seen from our (soggy) lawn seats. We got there early to secure a good spot, but soon were ushered under the shed due to a severe thunderstorm. But our preparation paid off and kept us dry enough, and the rain was over by the time the show started.

At the new Asian market yesterday, I picked up a pack of Thai chilis to make hot sauce. Here they are chopped up with onion, garlic, lychee (also from the Asian market), and a dried guajillo chili for smokiness. I’m fermenting this, so we’ll see how it is in about a month.

This week’s streak of 100+ degree days was broken just in time for us to host a 4th of July BBQ and walk down to the Newton fireworks.

I took video of the finale and posted it on YouTube.

 

Some colleagues and I had time to kill before our flight out, so we took the Pacific Coast Highway into San Diego instead of the interstate.

We also stopped at Lola 55 for lunch, a Michelin Bib Gourmand awarded taqueria. The very good food was gone too quickly for pictures.

We visited a colleague’s childhood home for his birthday on the last evening of this business trip. The property has a selection of citrus trees, and we were encouraged to pick some to take home. My selection was these two normal-sized Valencia oranges and a truly huge lemon.

My hotel for this business trip is walking distance from the campus. One of the sights I pass along the way is this plastic fence with hundreds of snails clinging to it, ranging in size from dime to golf ball. Very strange.

I’m at the corporate mothership this week, and in the campus’s outdoor eating area they have fruit trees for employees to enjoy when they’re ripe, including these figs.

I’m at the corporate mothership outside San Diego this week. The campus is a group of buildings surrounding a large courtyard, one end of which has some plantings and these screened pods. Really quite lovely, and a good place to take a call back home.

I’m at Logan leaving for a business trip. I got there early enough I can have Kelly’s Roast Beef for a meal before leaving.

Our green bathroom is nearing completion. When we moved in it was telepathically, channeling-pickle-relish green and we repainted it post-haste. But we still called it the Green Bathroom all these years. We think this new interpretation of green is much classier. Those penny-round tiles sure do pop now that they’re grouted.