Laundry Friday

As most of you know, I have a laundry fetish. It is part of my OCD, I derive great pleasure in seeing the laundry basket empty and everything folded and placed where it obviously belongs. The interesting thing is that even though I like that, my car is a trash bin.. oh well we just can't be perfect all the time.

I just called and confirmed my CT Scan for monday. It is part of my maintenance program as a post op cancer patient. This will be the second scan since the surgery. Only catch here is that I have to drink the chalky 500 ml milk shake, not as bad as the motor oil, but still rather unpleasent. Monday morning, breakfast of champions...YUKE

Puerto Rico Beauty Queen Survives Pranks

This is from the “what were they thinking file?”. Turns out that the newly crowned Ms Puerto Rico (and no, I did not enter the pageant, I thought it unfair) is less than loved by her fellow contestants. Somebody and it is yet to be determined who the perpetrator was, pepper sprayed the makeup and dress of the soon to be crowned contestant. She was breaking in hives as the contest went on, having to apply ice to her body and face to prevent more swelling. Who could be so bitchy and malicious?... Oh wait... she could have made it all up to get attention... damn beauty pageants

Reservations at the BI Hilton

I encourage everyone to send positive vibes to a regular contributor to the blog. His lovely wife was enticed to make reservation at the BI Hilton, were she has been a guest for the last few days. This week she will have a few "ultimate spa treatments". Hopefully time will move those hands faster than usual and they will be home safe and sound sooner than expected.

A restaurant Review

Last night we met our friends L&M at a tapas restaurant in Waltham called Solea. As always we had to catch up with months of information since they are running a very hectic family and baby sitters are few and far between. It started for me with a great margarita, I realize it should have been a sangria but I was in a mood for some tequila. It was absolutely delicious. As a true tapas restaurant, all the dishes are small and meant to be passed around. The menu selections and variety were excellent. As the empty plates started to pile up as debris, the conversation started to heat up. Great debates over education and other topics. All in all, excellent food and outstanding dinner companions.

I feel the earth move...

And not in a good way. Today at 11:45am a 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit New Hampshire. We were working and going about our business when all of a sudden, it felt like a bomb exploded. The building shook and stuff fell of the walls. Initially we were not sure what to think, we walked around the outside of the building trying to see if a tree (as in a big ass sequoia) fell on the building. Since this had happened not 2 weeks ago, it was possible. As the mystery deepened, we realized that people in the buildings adjacent to ours, were also trying to figure out what had happened. Eventually, we all went back inside since it was snowing. It took about 2 hours to get the news on the internet.

Navigation and GPS

I just finished reading a mediocre book called "La carta esferica". I don't have any idea why I did not put the book and all of its 590 pages away a lot sooner, but so be it. The one thing that now I am very curious about is the use of a sextant to determine location. Considering that I still confuse latitude and longitude, I need a lot of training. SO that is now my new weird intellectual pursuit. If any of you know how to do that, please let me know and teach me how to figure it out.

The lunacy of the holidays

My family or yours... that seems to be the question of the day when scheduling dinners during the upcoming marathon... I mean holiday season. All I know is whoever invented Boxing Day was very smart.

It looks like a monster

Last week-end we went down to New York City to see two new shows. Frankenstein and the New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein. The first was a technical marvel, but absolutely aweful. The second was excellent in a very silly way, HOWEVER, not as good as the Producers or as clever as Spamelot. The company for the monstrous romp was wonderful and we had a lovely meal at a hip and happening restaurant called Etc. Etc.