Author: doug

There’s more than one cultural reference that can get stuck in your head when you’re preparing fava beans.

I looked out the kitchen window just in time to see a hawk land on our fence. It stuck around for long enough to get a few pictures. We’re pretty sure it’s a Cooper’s hawk. It wasn’t until reviewing the photos that I realized in one, it was looking right at me.

We went to Honk Fest in Davis Square today for the first time since 2019. It’s a good time, and we’ll definitely go again.

Two icons of a bygone era, both victims of corporate America. The Custom House is now a Marriott, and Durgin-Park was run into the ground and closed in 2019 by corporate ownership that represented only 12 of the 190 years it had been open.

We visited the Museum of Science on this rainy Thursday, where we saw a Boston Dynamics Spot dog-like robot doing its thing.

We took a behind-the-scenes tour of the Wang Theater in Boston today. We heard some history, and got to see a bunch of places the general public doesn’t typically get a look at: everything backstage, of course. But also the Dress Circle seats, which are reserved at this theater for major donors. It’s a more intimate space in the largest of Boston’s major theaters, but I have to say the sight lines aren’t great.

In today’s bonus photo, I show you the ropes.

We visited the harbor seals outside the New England Aquarium today. Challenging lighting conditions, but here is one posing for us, framed by my shadow on the glass.

We’re back downtown for a re-do of our week in Boston, after Lis’s misfortune in June. Here’s a view from our apartment’s window.

My company’s Boston office is moving, and today was my last day in the old building. I will miss it: lovely spacious modern office, quite convenient location, tenant amenities to spoil us. But just too much square footage for the dozen or so of us who come in regularly.

As these things go, the new space isn’t ready yet so I will be work from home for up to a couple months starting tomorrow.

I guess it never crossed my mind before now that lobsters can be left-handed.