{"id":343,"date":"2016-03-22T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2016-03-24T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:45:45","slug":"spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/22\/spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grrr, they’ve taken my captions away.<\/p>\n

I abandoned my old friend Portfolio Slideshow (and so has word press<\/a> as far as I can tell) because I couldn’t get the captions to work, and started using\u00a0Responsive Slider by Supsystic, <\/a>that I upgraded yesterday, and now its captions don’t work either – or at least, I think they only work in one slider theme, and it’s the one I don’t like as well. See:<\/p>\n

Cleaner version that I like (with captions back after another upgrade, on Thursday morning!)<\/p>\n

[supsystic-slider id=6 position=”center”]<\/p>\n

Messy, with captions that only sort of work<\/p>\n

[supsystic-slider id=7 position=”center”]
\nAlthough, hmmm – if I am going to use a slideshow with no captions, perhaps this built into word press version of something like portfolio slideshow is the way to go?<\/p>\n

[portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=”disabled”]<\/p>\n

All of which means I am messing with pictures on my blog, when I am supposed to be working; it’s Wednesday and Spring Break is kind of over for me.<\/p>\n

I have<\/em> been having a pretty nice spring break. We started out by pretending to be tourists in Madison, combining long walks and eating out, which is what we usually do in cities we’re visiting. Friday I had a lot of books to pick up at the library, so after work, we walked over and split a pizza & a salad at Luigi’s<\/a>, the Food Fight<\/a> pizza place that’s in the same strip mall (Madison Public Library puts all its branches in strip malls). Saturday we walked to the Farmers Market and the line wasn’t out the door at Short Stack<\/a>, which we’d kind of been wanting to try (and whose website I like to use when I teach web design as an example of a site that’s been so optimized for mobile it doesn’t look so good on a bigger computer), but I wanted to make dinner – mac & cheese with roasted cauliflower, and salad that we’d just bought greens for – so we passed. On Sunday when we tried again, the line was out the door, so we went to another Food Fight joint, Bassett Street Brunch Club<\/a>. Which was OK, but not our favorite meal ever – my breakfast burrito was fine, although more than I could eat, the chile sauce topping it was just the right amount of heat and sweet, but the donut was just sort of weird – sweet and soft with no nice fried crust, but a not very pleasant fore-taste of fried oil. And Mark’s eggs and potatoes and toast were all tasted fine, too, but only the eggs were still hot.<\/p>\n

On Saturday I worked, but stopped in time to do a bunch of cooking – granola and I tried out the slutty brownies<\/a> recipe, and finally did make the mac & cheese – we didn’t eat dinner until about 8:15. On Sunday it was breakfast out, then a little more work. I sliced up the brownies and we had them with ice cream and the last of the date bars<\/a> and Sunday night TV.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning we drove to Harvard and got the train to Chicago. We shopped at Whole Foods, for the first dinner party at the Chicago apartment. Here’s the menu:<\/p>\n