Daily Archives: July 18, 2008

What a day

Our frig went on the fritz today and I ran out for ice and ran into several police cars on our 1/8 mile street. They told me to hurry before they closed our street for an indeterminate amount of time.

So I ran to the local drugstore and got 20# of ice and when I got back the repairman had all our frozen stuff out on the counter, which we packed up quickly and put in two coolers.

Didn’t do the frig and I think everything’s bad as the milk was bad…. Then we found out Jim’s cousin Val (Zoe’s hip surgeon) wanted to have dinner tonight as she’s in town with her parents.

Then we found out the reason for all the police and mounted police et al is that the President is in town and they closed all the streets around here so if I wanted to feed Jim and Val and her parents all the food went bad AND our street was blocked so we couldn’t enter or exit the property!

Val’s appointments ran 1 1/2 hours late so we’ll meet for breakfast instead. I just ordered a pizza.

What a day.

That’s It!

Paris has taken over the hamburger, to wit http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/dining/16paris.html?em&ex=1216526400&en=152f3e8d233ff725&ei=5087%0A

What say we do our own riff on the Croque Monsoeur? Or hachis parmentier (Shepherd’s Pie) or steak frites. Wait, we’ve already done the last one and pubs in the UK have taken over Shepherd’s Pie.

What do you think?

Care to Spin the Wheel?

Feels like Vegas. As job offers begin to roll in we need to decide what part of the country we’ll be living in, in less than two weeks. Roll the dice, spin the wheel, we’ll go where we’ll go.

I haven’t packed a thing yet or started throwing away any paper (cooking magazines, etc) I manage to collect on any horizontal surface to Jim’s chagrin.

We had a nice evening capped off by dinner at a local Mexican eatery where the spinach enchiladas were very tasty. Tomorrow we’re having a friend and perhaps Zoe’s sister dog (who locals named Zoe II for there was already our Zoe living here) over for dinner.

Hopefully a last quiet weekend, the calm before the storm. Actually we did quite well in Vegas, our brief honeymoon destination. We walked the Strip and put a quarter in every hotel’s slot machine. Spent $4 total and ended up with $6. Not bad! It was quite hot out so we spent the winnings on bottled water.