Author: doug

We celebrated Ali’s birthday today at House of Blues in Boston, at Gospel Brunch.  It was a lot of fun.

We went out for Juj’s birthday celebration tonight, first to a Chinese restaurant and then to one of those pub/movie theater places in North Attleboro (which Droid pronouces “at lee bro”).

Here Bob shows off his somewhat girly-looking scorpion bowl for 1.

Lis stayed home from work today to try out some science experiments for work.  One of them involves drying out some unpopped popcorn (in the oven), adding moisture to some, and leaving a 3rd batch as a control.  You then pop them, and observe the differences.

After dinner, we conducted the experiment.  Here we’re watching the dried-out batch (try to) pop.

Doug has finally given in to pressure and replaced his cell phone.  I was already pretty tempted by the prospect of some of the newer phones, but when my old trusty AT&T Wireless phone (pre-Cingular) started flaking out on me the other night I knew it was time. 

Welcome, Droid, I hope you are a worthy replacement for phone and Palm.

Veterans Day.  Nobody but government employees and students gets it off, so the rest of us tend to forget about it.  Until, that is, we hear a marching band outside.

I was working from home today — car in the shop — and took the opportunity to roast the beet left over from the last Boston Organics delivery.  This evening I grated the roasted beet, mixed it with goat cheese, ricotta, and a little basil, and made ravioli. 

This is the first time I’ve made ravioli, and they’re for my dinner tomorrow night.  I hope they come out all right!

I’m not doing a theme this week; back to normal old pictures.

Lis and I hauled the trash & recycle containers out to the curb last night.  This morning, I took out the kitchen trash to add to it, and realized (much to my environmentalist delight) that there was nothing else in the big blue bin — we’d gone an entire week and generated only half a small bag of trash.

Hours theme, 7pm 

Lis and I went out to dinner tonight, to Tuscan Grill on Moody St in Waltham.  I had the rabbit cacciatore and a Caesar salad.  The food was good; the lighting was not.  Apologies for the truly horrible image quality; I sometimes forget how spoiled I am with the big camera when it comes to low-light pictures.

Hours theme: 5pm 

Wine tasting at Jeff & Andrea’s.  We’re tasting Malbecs tonight.  Kat (with her entry) hasn’t arrived yet.  We selected the Crios as the winner, possessing the most balanced flavor — fruit-forward, with a touch of earthy or mineral content, and neither too acidic nor too sweet.  The Budini was dubbed “Manischewitz” for the evening, too sweet and fruity in comparison with the others.

Hours theme: 3pm 

Why there was a Channel 5 helicopter hovering over Quincy High School when I went to take my 3pm picture, I have no idea.