Friday is our anniversary...
2002-12-31 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearOur 27th, to be exact. [1] After going out to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [2] minus the kids, Colleen and I went across the street to the area's newest upscale mall, Santana Row, ostensibly for a late lunch and a quick look-around.
After lunch, we went into the nearest upscale kitchen-stuff store, ostensibly in search of a gift for the people we're going to spend New Year's Eve with (we owe them some back presents). Well, we did find those. We also found a lovely little Kyocera [3] paring knife.
Abandoning my original idea of buying a new, less power-hungry toaster for our mutual present, we got the knife. OK, so we're the kind of couple who consider a $70 paring knife a perfectly appropriate mutual anniversary present -- we've almost always celebrated our anniversaries with something for the house. (The band at our 25th party was a temporary aberation.)
[1] The tradional party will be this Saturday, the 4th. Details here.
[2] The movie was definitely worth seeing. IMHO it was better than the first, even though it lacked that first-time sense-of-wonder. Dobby was very well done; there are some characters that were just meant for computer animation. Gollum, in LoTR, is another example.
[3] Originally, I believe, Kyoto Ceramics -- an old and well-established Japanese ceramics company that, in addition to such traditional fare as IC packages and turbine blades also makes some of the best knives and other cutting tools in the known universe. The blades are zirconium oxide: white, reasonably tough in ordinary use (don't use them on meat with bones: the edge is a bit fragile), and hard enough to scratch your initials on a tungsten carbide router bit, and hold a good edge practically forever. They look -- and cut -- the way one imagines a crysknife ought to. We now have all four of their kitchen knives, a vegetable peeler (watch your fingers!), a pair of small scissors, and an ugly but highly effective 3cm scraper. All but the two smallest knives were purchased in Japan.
After lunch, we went into the nearest upscale kitchen-stuff store, ostensibly in search of a gift for the people we're going to spend New Year's Eve with (we owe them some back presents). Well, we did find those. We also found a lovely little Kyocera [3] paring knife.
Abandoning my original idea of buying a new, less power-hungry toaster for our mutual present, we got the knife. OK, so we're the kind of couple who consider a $70 paring knife a perfectly appropriate mutual anniversary present -- we've almost always celebrated our anniversaries with something for the house. (The band at our 25th party was a temporary aberation.)
[1] The tradional party will be this Saturday, the 4th. Details here.
[2] The movie was definitely worth seeing. IMHO it was better than the first, even though it lacked that first-time sense-of-wonder. Dobby was very well done; there are some characters that were just meant for computer animation. Gollum, in LoTR, is another example.
[3] Originally, I believe, Kyoto Ceramics -- an old and well-established Japanese ceramics company that, in addition to such traditional fare as IC packages and turbine blades also makes some of the best knives and other cutting tools in the known universe. The blades are zirconium oxide: white, reasonably tough in ordinary use (don't use them on meat with bones: the edge is a bit fragile), and hard enough to scratch your initials on a tungsten carbide router bit, and hold a good edge practically forever. They look -- and cut -- the way one imagines a crysknife ought to. We now have all four of their kitchen knives, a vegetable peeler (watch your fingers!), a pair of small scissors, and an ugly but highly effective 3cm scraper. All but the two smallest knives were purchased in Japan.
