No visitors for a while..
But lots of stuff happening...
First of all, I should mention that Puddin' died.
Poor Puddin'...
I was going to take her to the vet in the morning because I knew she wasn't feeling well. When I woke up, she was lying still on the floor.
One Saturday afternoon, I had been sitting with my friend Ken at the Phoenix and someone came in and said that a junkie had a box of kittens out front and was trying to sell them. Ken, who worked for the SPCA at the time, immediatly took up a collection of ten bucks or so, and went out and bought the kittens, and then called the SPCA to come and pick them up. Ken was adament about not letting animals loose to breed on the streets; he had seen too much of that and had, at times, at work been the person to "eliminate" the unwanted animals. While we were waiting for the pick up, I picked up one of the kittens. They were so cute, especially this one, and I couldn't put her back down into the box. So, I awoke the next morning with a hangover and a kitten sleeping on my head. Puddin' stayed with me for eight years, and although she was not popular with most of my friends, she was very loyal to me. (She loved luca, btw, much to his dismay!) I am missing her a lot right now.
Other news, less sad.
The new computer is working well and the old one is networked, and with the laptop, there are now three computers available on the network. I must be mad! I don't need them all, but I had to network them just because I could... Occasionally it's useful, but most of the time it's just tech-lust.
Oh, and one more thing... I also got a Pocket PC. I bought it in a moment of weakness and thought, "Oh shit I just bought an expensive toy!", but it has proved useful for work. Appointments, task lists and all, syncs with the desktop, and it does make a great mp3 player... and it also stores and displays pictures. And because it handles Word and Excel documents, I was able to use it for the notes for the talk on cheese that I gave at the...
Home and Garden Show...
Speaking in front of groups is not my favorite thing; I'm not totally comfortable with it, but in a perverse way, I like the challenge once and a while. And to do it on the floor of the Superdome... well, that's special, because it was there that Bryant Gumble actually spit out my fried alligator on national TV! I made Today Show history that day... Jane Pauley really got a kick out of Bryant slurping onto this fried bit of food and saying, "mmmm, this is good, what is it?" and then seeing him spit it out when I told him it was alligator! She gave me a jolly wink! Made her day, I think...
Anyway, the audience tonight was not quite as large... but I did well. Just have to work on my cheese jokes.
I had a good time, I got to talk about something that I like very much and I showed them how to make an easy, quick cheese pasta dish. (One guy said "With all thaaaat cheese, this must cost twenty-five dollars to make!" I told him that it only cost about ten bucks for four really fabulous servings. And I used my new line: "Do you know how much potato chips cost? Well, it's about twelve dollars a pound... " Hehe, I love that fact.
No one eats a pound of potato chips and no one eats a pound of cheese in one meal.
One other cheese fact that I used tonight for the first time: the milk from cows and goats contains about the same amount of milk fat, the milk from sheep about twice that much, but reindeer milk has five times the fat of cow's milk and three times the protien. Very convenient for the people in the very cold climates who need that concentration of nutrients to keep them warm and alive.
Ah, but I get fierce and carried away with my subject! hehe.
I am thinking that that's not a bad thing, eh?
Other news, in general...
My dear friend and neighbor, Robert, has taking up collecting vintage Christmas lights, and with a passion on E-bay! He has this pile of boxes with really amazing things in them...and more to come...
The Final Four crowd was enormous, and drunk and college boy cute.
The French Quarter Fest last weekend was HUGE! I remember when it started... it's grown so much.
I didn't get a promotion that I was up for, but that's probably a blessing...
All in all, everything is all right, but I would so much like someone to come home to...
durlx
But lots of stuff happening...
First of all, I should mention that Puddin' died.
Poor Puddin'...
I was going to take her to the vet in the morning because I knew she wasn't feeling well. When I woke up, she was lying still on the floor.
One Saturday afternoon, I had been sitting with my friend Ken at the Phoenix and someone came in and said that a junkie had a box of kittens out front and was trying to sell them. Ken, who worked for the SPCA at the time, immediatly took up a collection of ten bucks or so, and went out and bought the kittens, and then called the SPCA to come and pick them up. Ken was adament about not letting animals loose to breed on the streets; he had seen too much of that and had, at times, at work been the person to "eliminate" the unwanted animals. While we were waiting for the pick up, I picked up one of the kittens. They were so cute, especially this one, and I couldn't put her back down into the box. So, I awoke the next morning with a hangover and a kitten sleeping on my head. Puddin' stayed with me for eight years, and although she was not popular with most of my friends, she was very loyal to me. (She loved luca, btw, much to his dismay!) I am missing her a lot right now.
Other news, less sad.
The new computer is working well and the old one is networked, and with the laptop, there are now three computers available on the network. I must be mad! I don't need them all, but I had to network them just because I could... Occasionally it's useful, but most of the time it's just tech-lust.
Oh, and one more thing... I also got a Pocket PC. I bought it in a moment of weakness and thought, "Oh shit I just bought an expensive toy!", but it has proved useful for work. Appointments, task lists and all, syncs with the desktop, and it does make a great mp3 player... and it also stores and displays pictures. And because it handles Word and Excel documents, I was able to use it for the notes for the talk on cheese that I gave at the...
Home and Garden Show...
Speaking in front of groups is not my favorite thing; I'm not totally comfortable with it, but in a perverse way, I like the challenge once and a while. And to do it on the floor of the Superdome... well, that's special, because it was there that Bryant Gumble actually spit out my fried alligator on national TV! I made Today Show history that day... Jane Pauley really got a kick out of Bryant slurping onto this fried bit of food and saying, "mmmm, this is good, what is it?" and then seeing him spit it out when I told him it was alligator! She gave me a jolly wink! Made her day, I think...
Anyway, the audience tonight was not quite as large... but I did well. Just have to work on my cheese jokes.
I had a good time, I got to talk about something that I like very much and I showed them how to make an easy, quick cheese pasta dish. (One guy said "With all thaaaat cheese, this must cost twenty-five dollars to make!" I told him that it only cost about ten bucks for four really fabulous servings. And I used my new line: "Do you know how much potato chips cost? Well, it's about twelve dollars a pound... " Hehe, I love that fact.
No one eats a pound of potato chips and no one eats a pound of cheese in one meal.
One other cheese fact that I used tonight for the first time: the milk from cows and goats contains about the same amount of milk fat, the milk from sheep about twice that much, but reindeer milk has five times the fat of cow's milk and three times the protien. Very convenient for the people in the very cold climates who need that concentration of nutrients to keep them warm and alive.
Ah, but I get fierce and carried away with my subject! hehe.
I am thinking that that's not a bad thing, eh?
Other news, in general...
My dear friend and neighbor, Robert, has taking up collecting vintage Christmas lights, and with a passion on E-bay! He has this pile of boxes with really amazing things in them...and more to come...
The Final Four crowd was enormous, and drunk and college boy cute.
The French Quarter Fest last weekend was HUGE! I remember when it started... it's grown so much.
I didn't get a promotion that I was up for, but that's probably a blessing...
All in all, everything is all right, but I would so much like someone to come home to...
durlx
