Work calls again in Honolulu. I usually don’t make the effort to eat well as I hate eating alone and am usually too tired to call anyone. This time I made an effort to break some of my habits and made dinner commitments. I flew in Tuesday about noon and worked until 5:30 (13 hr …
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Scallops
Tonight, Sandy treated me to seared scallops in an orange reduction for dinner, yum!
AARP
Itz here, 3 days after my birthday. No more full prices for those meals like you youngsters. I’m gonna fill it out tonight.
New neighbors
Tami & Chris are moving to Alameda. Since today is moving day we got to dogsit with Koa. I’ve learned a few thing about Koa: The first thing we did was to let her outside in the backyard. That was a mistake. She immediately pursued the ducks right into the lagoon and refused to come …
Old dog new trick
Just found out how to do an image focus stack in CS4.
Just nifty @ 50
Today I turned 50 and if you would have asked me 20 years ago, I probably thought I’d be dead by now. We dropped Mommi off @ SFO and then quickly shuttled on over to Lake Chalet for lunch. We had a quiet dinner just the 2 of us. Sandy made me a smoked salmon …
PreBirthday Dinner
As Mommi & Bengie are leaving tomorrow we went out and celebrated my birthday with a dinner at Il Fornaio courtesy of Bengie. Prawns, gnocchi, pork chop wrapped with pork, lobster ravioli & tiramisu… While it wasn’t like the food in Italy it still gave me that overstuffed feeling on the drive back home.
Barin mini reunion
Mommi & Bengie flew in tonight. Sandy had corned beef in slow cooker all day. We dined on it for dinner.
Weekend
Had a pretty lazy weekend, ate out, mowed the lawn. Oh but we did manage to go a birthday party for Beth. Here’s some random stuff…
LA adventures
Had some training in the home office (I haven’t been there in 3 yrs). Later we had a short visit with my Ma. The tonkotsu ramen at Ramen Yamadaya was to die for… I got mine with a big slab of pork belly. I also had a chance to revisit one of my favorite pastrami …