On Sunday we were gone from the airbnb for over 12 hours – from 8:00 am to after 9:00 PM. It was like a very long work day, but at least included dinner. We got coffee at the closest Starbucks – not the fastest customer service but just down the stairs from the airbnb – … [Read more…]
Friday was another 3 movie day, two family dramas and one romantic comedy. We hung around at the airbnb and ate yogurts and banana and peanut butter toast for breakfast because The Wife, our first film, the first family drama, didn’t start until noon, plus we had dinner reservations between our 2nd & 3rd movies, … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]
Or, I don’t think I’m ever going to catch up. Mark’s brother and sister-in-law came to visit the weekend before last, and then by a fluke we also got Mark’s nephew, his wife, and their two kids who are 8 and 13, for an overnight. They were all on their way to the U.S. Open … [Read more…]
Let’s see if I can tell you about a couple of things that stand out. Affogato for dessert at Avec. It’s that Italian dessert that’s just coffee, espresso really, dumped over vanilla ice cream. Here’s Food52’s take on it. Lots of high end restaurants serve it with some baked good on the side. We had … [Read more…]
It seems a little weird to say I didn’t cook much this week when on Monday I prepped breakfast for 40 at the food pantry at the community center, and then went back to serve it on Tuesday morning. There were breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. I made 40 burritos and 42 muffins and they … [Read more…]
We left Madison on Friday for a combined family weekend in DC, and trip to Charlotteville VA for a conference for me. Now I’m back at DC’s National Airport for the trip home. I rented a car and drove from Washington down to Charlotteville, and it was a pretty drive through rolling Virginia countryside, with … [Read more…]
And other fun in strip mall land in central Florida. Since it’s June, and I get my allotment for the whole year at the end of the month, I don’t have any actual vacation days left, although I do have banked time and personal days. But since I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at … [Read more…]
…with the librarians, and in Chicago, too, to have dinner with John & Megan and catch my flight to Florida. Tuesday was a long day – at 7:30 AM I was on my way to the community center to serve waffles for the food pantry breakfast. At 7:30 PM I was in Chicago at Orchestra … [Read more…]
