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DINNER 230: Friday, August 18, 2006

DINNER 230: Friday, August 18, 2006

We ate dinner with Dave & Robin this evening at Ruby Tuesday’s where everyone (except me) could be ‘good’ and stick to their diets. While they all nibbled salads and veggie burgers, I enjoyed my Mini Burgers (topped with fried onion straws), fries, and mozzarella & tomato salad. Yummy!

Our air conditioning went out sometime today, so the house is hot. The ceiling fan in our bedroom is broken and waiting to be replaced, and the motor from our whole-house fan has been out for repair for, oh… a month. So we’ll be roasting this evening!

System Strangeness

System Strangeness

We’ve got a couple behind-the-scenes issues occuring with the website — our cache program isn’t working, sometimes the comment form seems to disappear, and there is an elusive bug with my permalinks. I’m working to fix all of these issues, so if you experience any…

DINNER 229: Thursday, August 17, 2006

DINNER 229: Thursday, August 17, 2006

Wow, another night at home! Wendy ate NutriSystem, a salad, and some leftover cauliflower soup for her dinner. For me, I had an onion-y cheeseburger and some mushroom risotto. We watched a couple episodes of THE DOG WHISPERER that we’d recorded before coming upstairs to…

DINNER 228: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

DINNER 228: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

This evening, Wendy & I went and had our cellphones ‘unlocked‘, thereby removing the obligation to stick with Cincinnati Bell’s service (which has been screwing me royally since I signed up for it a few months ago) and allowing us to choose another service that is both less expensive and more compatible with our usage patterns.

After that, we came home and made cauliflower soup and ate that with some NutriSystem dinners — I had a pasta in tomato sauce with meatballs which was pretty good. In a couple moments, we’re going to go watch the finale of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, one of our stupid-summer-reality show addictions.

Reading: HEAT

Reading: HEAT

I’m currently reading HEAT: An Amateur’s Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford. I was considering bumping this book in favor of Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk to read on an upcoming vacation, but email…