Done yesterday (20110508 Su Mother's Day)

[mdlbear]

0508 Su Mother's Day
  * up 8ish; W=196.2; drugs, nose, laundry, coffee, light
  * Colleen wants a 6" Kindle
    she likes it better without the skin.
  * buy:  bagels, parsley, jalape\~nos.  Also rockfish and purple tulips
  * drive:  the 9-17 loop.  Pleasant.  Very little traffic.
  : Noted that the power supply for my external backup drive is rated at 65W;
    the output totals only about 25.  Bletch.  Probably takes less when it's
    on standby, but still...  
  * 15min:  After a failed attempt to fix the broken suitcase with WD-40, put
    it out on the curb.  Someone will want it.
  * start the (caprese) salad at 6pm
  * dinner:  rockfish pan-fried with butter, garlic, and lemon; 
    asparagus sauteed with butter and mint (Colleen's idea).  YUM.
  * 15min: install the 2 new double pot-hooks on the kitchen pot-rack
  * some noodling: Owl and the Pussycat (sung off-book and not too badly),
    bad guy medley, and a bit of Desolation Row with A chording.
  * sang for Colleen and Naomi

It was Mother's Day. I called my mom around 11; Chaos called around noon; a few of our kids-of-choice also called. Always nice.

I gave Colleen her new Kindle 3, which she loves. It seems to have problems, though; some books don't seem to have synced completely. Grump.

Colleen had gotten a huge slab of smoked salmon at Costco, so we had bagels and lox for brunch. One of the few things guaranteed to get the YD out of bed. While I was out for bagels I went across the parking lot to Whole Paycheck, where I found some nice rockfish for dinner. With a caprese-type salad and baby asparagus sauteed in butter with a little mint (Colleen's idea). Yum, on both meals. The wine with dinner was a Columbia Valley reisling, very big and fruity. Also yum.

We took a nice drive out to the coast on Highway 9, and back via 17.

Glanced at the nameplate on my external backup drive's power brick -- it's rated for 65W on the input side. The outputs only total about 25, and I know that the drive is about half that. So... yuck. OK, it's probably not pulling nearly that much, given that it spends most of the time asleep, but the inefficiency is annoying. An internal hot-swappable mount would be nice.

Did a little noodling on the guitar, and later called Naomi and sang to her and Colleen.

No links. Must have been busy, even though it didn't feel like it.

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

"Whole Paycheck" gave me a good laugh. I love Whole Foods, but cannot often afford it!

I am so going to use that phrase to describe that store from now on!

[mdlbear]

Hee!

We've been using that one for a couple of years now; don't remember where we first heard it.