Happy birthday, mac! Holy cow 11!! What the heck, time??
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Apr 23, 2012 5:16:29 pm PDT #2130 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Cashmere - Apr 23, 2012 5:29:49 pm PDT #2131 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Happy Birthday, mac!
Kartheiser looks vaguely Wheatonesque in a beard.
She is currently sitting in the car seat, watching Spongebob, while wearing: a black and orange Halloween dress, fingerless gloves, and a pink cowboy hat. While clutching her Fancy Doll.
LOVE.
le nubian - Apr 23, 2012 5:33:19 pm PDT #2132 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sue - Apr 23, 2012 6:04:10 pm PDT #2133 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Mac!
sarameg - Apr 23, 2012 6:05:48 pm PDT #2134 of 30001
Happy birthday, mac!
So it is 4:40 in the morning and I've just got to accept that I am awake, but there will be no coffee until closer to 6:30. That's like, almost 5 hours? Maybe? After a long, but productive day of meetings, getting rather lost coming back (I am not a fan of being the navigator when my map is a tom-tom and I do not know the route and I've got a backseat driver with even less instincts than...well, the driver and OMG JUST LET ME DRIVE....wait.) and then a prix-fixe 3 hour, multi-course dinner with a a constant stream of rioja.
Let's see if I can recall it...One of the courses was scallops, and since I have a family history of an escalating allergy to them, last time I ate them I felt a little off, and I don't really like them anyway, they adjusted the menu for a couple of us. It was just easier to go no-seafood for us.
So:
- little chorizo sausages and bread
- white asparagus in olive oil vinagrette and peppers and onion
- fried goat cheese medallion with a spring salad mix (frise, argula and endive, I think) with a sweet onion marmalade and one that I think was cherry/apricot something. (This was a sub for the scallop in cava.)
- seared artichoke hearts with some sort of jamon strips (sub for baby squid stuffed with tentacles and onions)
- Solomillo (bloody, sweet, peppery rare beef tenderloin without any other seasonings)
- torrijas (cinnamon pan perdu) with a custardy ice cream flavored with orange
- a thing sheet of almond-flour 'cookie'
I can't believe how much we ate (and drank.) It was kind of obscene. Thank god our work site had beautiful, glorious mixed baby greens salad for lunch offerings. Don't get me wrong, the food here is awesome! I just need way more salad in my diet.
OK, It's almost 5. I can now reasonably expect to shower, review the route, look for a room for sunday here and likely thursday in Segovia; go out and get coffee in there somewhere. I can figure out how I'm getting there to Segovia later. Hell, at worst, I just ask the front desk.
In closing (at least until I run out of things to do first thing in the actually acceptable to call it morning now) : [link]
beth b - Apr 23, 2012 6:19:39 pm PDT #2135 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
sarameg that sounds wonderful!
happy birthday mac!!!!!!1
and Owen writes better than a few free ebooks I've read
Cass - Apr 23, 2012 6:51:24 pm PDT #2136 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Happy birthday, Mac.
Kartheiser looks vaguely Wheatonesque in a beard.
Oh good. Not just me then. They both grew up in a kinda awesome but unexpected way.
Consuela - Apr 23, 2012 6:56:16 pm PDT #2137 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
wow, sarameg, that sounds like an awesome meal. (Although I would have gone for the scallops myself.)
Cashmere - Apr 23, 2012 6:56:44 pm PDT #2138 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I love scallops. But the whole meal sounds delish.
sarameg - Apr 23, 2012 7:21:24 pm PDT #2139 of 30001
I edited to be more readable...
Even before I started feeling weird, I didn't much care for scallops, and I've tried them a few times. Most seafood is just not my thing.
OK, have directions down pat, and actually know the roadways, so I can get us out of anything.
And I've still got 2 hours.
Going to go see if that one place is open yet. Or maybe take in the sunrise... though that might not be soon enough.