Author: doug

Lis’s bat mitzvah candle — crooked for the entire 20+ years I’ve known of it — picked this summer to turn into a total U shape. Today we straightened it, using a method I saw online. Thanks Internet! Let’s hope it survives another 35 years.

I installed a couple more wire shelving units back-to-back in the basement today. These two house the pile-o-stuff that had accumulated in this location, and make everything actually accessible and a bit more organized. There’s space between them to hold the folding tables we keep down here. Behind them you see two old wood shelves that are attached to the new dry room; these are properly accessible now too.

This place will give the food trucks a run for my money.

Their bacon/lettuce/avocado/tomato sandwich was better than The Bacon Truck’s: flavors cleaner and more harmonious, bread (challah) *much* nicer.

This bakery is opening across the street from my office on Monday. I can see them from my desk. That’s Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C and that stands for Croissant.

Preparation for today’s New Years Brunch

My “dry room” in the basement is now in service. I ran out of time to paint it during this holiday break, then decided nobody cares if a storage room is painted.

One of these things does not belong

In what’s  becoming an annual tradition, I went to Eataly today with friends to stock up on imported Italian food items. We each spent an exorbitant amount on our lunches by adding shaved truffles — not something I’ll do again soon, but it was educational.

We have a tradition in my office, started years ago while several of us babysat a release build on the eve of Christmas break, of office bowling. The rules are about as flexible as Calvinball, but involve a basketball and a bunch of recycle bins. And beer.

My two cooking tasks today are from opposite ends of a few scales: 1. Make a vegan version of my Spanish lentil stew for work potluck tomorrow. 2. Go outside and use a dremel, wedge, and 2-lb sledgehammer to split beef marrow bones for Tuesday’s dinner.