This is one of my favorite times of the year, and here’s why: grilling. I love meat; I love grilling, smoking, making jerky — there’s nothing like meat that’s been teased with real fire. I’m watching Good Eats on the Food Network (one of my favorite shows) and many of the commercials are for grilling/barbecue [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 23, 2008
In Which I Have A New Toy.
I’ve wanted a new laptop for a while now, and the stars finally aligned this month at work. How very geek of me to post it on the ol’ blog:
May 23, 2008
In Which I Share the View.
When I got to work today, one of the cruise ships was just pulling out from the waterfront, the mountains were out, and I just happened to have my camera with me. So I snapped a few shots.
Disclaimer: this is the view from the office next to mine — being a computer geek, my office [...]
May 23, 2008
In Which It Is Finally Here.
They’ve talked about it for a while; last night I saw it all the way home from work:
May 10, 2008
Quick Quotes for Saturday May 10
CS Lewis, God in the Dock:
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells [...]
May 1, 2008
In Which I List the Books I’ve Read in 2008, Update 2
Started but not completed yet (bold means I’m actually attempting the whole book-on-paper thing):
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope
Anne Rice, Christ The Lord: Cana
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby, How To Be Good
Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee, Rama Revealed
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (read by John Cleese [...]
May 1, 2008
In Which Chester and I Visit the Flight Museum.
I just found on my desk the blue bracelet from a field trip a few weeks back to the Boeing Museum of Flight. I’ve lived here my whole life, and that was the first time I’d ever been. It was pretty neat, but I think we missed a lot, seeing as we were there for [...]
