Of cars, and crabs, and music stands...

[mdlbear]

...and tuna fish, and sings.

Altogether a good couple of days. Finished off the little logging utility I've been working on at work (little Perl script; each log entry is an RFC822-format file that contains its serial number and the hash of the previous entry in its headers). After dinner, had another good practice session with Joyce. It's going to work.

Today, after a good walk (about an hour and a quarter, ~4mi) I stopped in at Guitar Showcase and bought a couple of mic stand drink holders (coiled, black-vinyl-coated wire -- very cool-looking) and a very respectably solid music holder that clamps onto a mic stand. Both were items I've been looking for for months; I'd first seen the drink holders in a catalog, forgot which one, and couldn't find them again when I wanted to order a couple. Both were on sale. Had leftover chili for lunch; by this time the chaoswolf had already left for a Furcon picnic.

Then the flower_cat and I went out for a drive. Up Saratoga Ave.; 236 (IIRC) through Big Basin Park (I'd last driven it over 30 years ago with my parents; not nearly as scary now that I've driven the highway to Hana on Maui), then up State Highway 1 to Half Moon Bay, 92 to I280, and home. The route takes us past a produce stand on Highway 1, and a fish market just past the corner of 92.

Which brings us to dinner. The fish market had some gorgeous Dungeness crabs, cooked and cold (cleaned at no extra cost), at a very reasonable price ($6/lb), and some beautiful-looking Ahi tuna at $13/lb. We got three crabs, half a pound of Ahi, and a sourdough baguette. Crabs are usually about 1.5 lbs, and three or four is plenty for a meal. These were something over 2.5. Nobody complained (though my wallet was heard to mutter under its breath); there will be crab-stuffed chili peppers tomorrow for lunch. The tuna, BTW, was sashimi quality, so that's how we ate it; all but the flower_cat, who's allergic to fish but not molluscs or crustaceans. The baguette became garlic bread. The wine was Kriter, a German Méthode Champagnoise.

I learned something, too: super_star_girl and I eat our crab as soon as we get it out of the shell, while the chaoswolf and flower_cat start by making a big pile of crabmeat on their plate and then eat it with a fork. Weird. Something else: Ahi tuna should be cut in one direction using a long, very sharp knife. If you saw back and forth, it comes apart in flakes. Fortunately, we have a long, very sharp knife, part of the set we bought ourselves for our anniversary last year. edit: Oh, and a traditional woodcarver's mallet does a pretty good job cracking crab legs, though there's a slight tendency to spatter out the sides.

Can I go to sleep now? (No, it's too early.)

Comments

[pwl1.livejournal.com]

We love our mic stand music holder - found it at Long and McQuade in Toronto - and hope to get some more to bring to FKO. It will make life SO much easier on stage.

[trektone.livejournal.com]

crab and tuna -- yum.