In the continuing saga of the broken AC, first the AC guy came Monday morning. It was astonishingly fast after I had called them, but he couldn’t fix it – he said it’s an electrical problem (cost: $125). The electrician came Tuesday morning – I had a moment of being in a Firesign Theatre album, … [Read more…]
After the cold wet spring (and late cold winter) we had some just beautiful weather for awhile there, I guess it was back in June, dry and cool, into the 50s at night so nice for sleeping, and not too humid. But I had to turn on the AC last week – Tuesday I slept … [Read more…]
No grilling. No parties or friends over. No biking. Lots of rain, and flash flood warnings, and sopping up the basement on Friday night. Now they say we’re under an areal flood warning – I guess that’s when there might be flooding due to slow seepage, instead of flash. On Friday I left work early, … [Read more…]
So on my side of town, we got the most rain on Monday. About three inches here, that all came down between 4:00 and 5:30, and then again between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Resulting in about 30 gallons of water in my basement that I sucked up with the shop vac, and sopped up with … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]
Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp, for our new incoming class of online graduate students. Bootcamp takes place during the last week of summer classes at UW-Madison, which always fall on the first full week of August. One of my colleagues has started saying, “Bootcamp ruins the summer” – and it’s … [Read more…]
I didn’t light any candles, as I have done in the past. I did make sure to eat broccoli and crackers and strong cheese, and drink white wine. When my brother and I exchanged emails about what we each were eating for Oma’s yahrzeit he said, “rye bread and Riesling” and I said, “aged Gouda … [Read more…]
And other UN-photographed food. I wanted to make this Dorie Greenspan cake that got printed in the NYT mag while Rach was here, because it has no dairy, and you can put berries in it, and I had a lot of blueberries. It’s Roman ring cake, a ciambella. It turned out pretty much as Dorie … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
I got a CSA box on Thursday that included: a quart of really ripe strawberries a giant Napa cabbage – almost 3 pounds Zucchini and summer squash, almost 4 pounds Broccoli, 2 medium stalks One green bell and one green frying pepper One kohlrabi a bunch of scallions, two healthy stalks of curly basil 5 … [Read more…]