Subject Near and Dear

My mother gave us the heads up the other day about a show on China’s Lost Girls. If you can catch the show in repeat, I highly recommend it. I think the show did a good job of balancing both sides of the story–what is happening in China and what the American parents go through.

Some parts of the story were very familiar to us since it mirrored what my sister and her husband went through when they adopted the Niece. In fact, some of it was like watching the video of their trip to China. Especially how excited the families were prior to getting their daughters. I was at my sister’s house when they got the referral package with the Niece’s picture and paperwork. It was an amazing experience and I’m really glad I was able to participate in that day. I equate that day with being there for her birth.

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Sounds Like Heaven

Last night, after catching the Metro back to our hotel, we discussed the concert. Sure, we talked about the musicianship, the flat-out superb guitar playing, how the pianist reminded the better-half of Patrick Macnee–the usual.

One of the things we discussed at length was the clarity of the sound. It was loud but it was pure. The better-half even said we could throw out all of our speakers and load up on the JBL. Believe the hype–JBL is all about clarity and tone.

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Love is my Badge

Two Things:

Robert Randolph and the Family Band are awesome. They burned the house down and then played amoungst the ashes. Holy cow.

Eric Clapton-be still my beating heart. Thank you for staying alive and making it possible for me to finally see you. It was amazing.

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Irony?

Does anyone else find it amusing that the American Idol live tour is sponsored by Pop Tarts?

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Happy Birthday

Today is the better-half’s birthday. Happy Birthday, sizzle.

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Salad

Here’s an update on the salad I made last night. Remember? I had figs to use.

I got some chevre and arugula from the store on the way home. I couldn’t find mache and I’m sure there are better manufacturers of chevre than what I could find but it matters not. The salad rocked. I smacked some whole almonds with the meat tenderizer hammer-thing and sprinkled those over the arugula. Then added the figs and cheese. We just used some italian dressing sparingly.

I wished I had made 6 more plates of salad and eaten those instead of the actual main course.

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Quick Brown Firefox

I’m finally getting used to opening new tabs instead of new windows while using Firefox. I’m still experiencing “doh” moments when I pull my mouse down to find the other webpage I was browsing–that’s usually when I say to myself “nitwit, it’s on the tab bar”.

I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of time this afternoon looking for a way to alter a private webpage. I have a page where I list the blogs I like to read on a regular basis. I have this private page so that I can just click on the blog I want and not have to shuffle through my really long bookmark list. I want to be able to select a link and have a new tab open…not a new window.

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Because this stuff just pops into my head

On the way to work this morning I listened to NPR. They ran a clip of the Veep saying that the media misconstrued his constant statements about Iraq being a threat to the US because of its involvement with al-Qaeda. In fact, he called the media lazy. I immediately thought it is a good thing he’s already called Dick.

I am torn between making a fig and prosciutto wrap as an appetizer for dinner or making a salad with the figs I bought the other day. I read on grubreport today of a delightful fig, chevre and mache salad.

My sister got her package of mead and she emailed us a thrilled thank-you. Sometimes the government’s policy of don’t ask don’t tell works…they shipped the box that UPS wouldn’t. Speaking of my sister, she got an insider’s tour of Cape Kennedy the other day. She walked under the shuttle Endeavour and touched a shuttle tile. She also got to talk with the people that actually work on the shuttle. Damn, how cool is that?

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Just Take Me Out

Tonight we went to see “YOUR RICHMOND BRAVES”. Now say that in a deep radio announcer’s voice and you’ll feel right at home. We got there really early because the power went out at the office and since there wasn’t a darn thing we could do about it, we changed clothes and left. We got to the ballpark a little after 6:15 and discovered a game in progress.

Now, mind you, I checked the team’s website and the local paper’s site to see if they were doing a double-header since it has rained nearly every evening this week. No mention…why have technology if you aren’t going to use it?

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Holy mother, hear my prayer

Today we went to Mexico for lunch and we gorged ourselves on chips and salsa.

While we were speeding through the chips and salsa, a table of holy rollers sat down behind us. There were five of them and when the guy brought out their food he had one arm full of food from his hand to his neck and the other hand held one plate. Of course, the table was rather inept at claiming their items. I’m sure the guy was getting real tired of that plate of sizzling fajitas being a few inches from his face. Anyway, after he was finally able to hand over each plate, one of the women said something about the cheese dip she ordered. She repeated cheese dip and made a motion with her hands like she was dipping something into an imaginary bowl. It was at that point that I wanted to jump up and throttle her but I saved my rage for snarking on the website.

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