Wednesday started out with a quick walk around the neighborhood. Walking up either 2nd or 3rd, saw a guy checking out his phone while walking his cute dog. Sure looked a lot like Josh Groban. I've seen pictures of his dog too. Hmmmm. Me, being me, did not ask him or say hi or anything. Just smiled as we walked by. Joey said he would have ( Read more... )

So, ever since trektone took me out for brunch at the Waterbar, I've been craving more seafood. Specifically - oysters. Just how hard was it to open up a bunch of oysters? HAH ( Read more... )

Sunday ( Read more... )

Saturday. Breakfast at the hotel buffet. The omelet chef is amazing. He had omelets flying and flipping in the air with the greatest of ease =) Smoked salmon. I was quite happy.

There were two panels that I wanted to go to at 10:30-noon.
Strong Female Characters in SF&FHow is the female character changing in current SF&F and why? What are ( Read more... )

Friday - breakfast at Yolk.
Dealers room, I think. Tammy & I spent much time & money at Angelwear Creations. Shiny!!! Did get to cross Tammy off my Christmas shopping list. Score!

seanan_mcguire's reading ( Read more... )

Thursday, pezazul, clsinstl, tammy_g and I walked over to Yolk on South Michigan Ave. for breakfast. Actually, we liked the place so much, we ended up going there for breakfast on Friday too. One day I got the Irish Benedict (corned beef hash, fried tomato, eggs) and the other day, I got the Countryside Skillet with spinach instead of green peppers ( Read more... )

What have I done lately, that I meant to post about, but haven't, due to being SICK...

• herefox,lilacfairy and I did Northern Faire on the 2nd. This was the first time in a long while that Lee has done faire. I think it was the fact that the Wicked Tinkers had a wee concert there that got her to go... Once the sound system got fixed, t'was a wonderful concert - I ( Read more... )

Note to self: Next time, leave the book in the car UNTIL the weekend! Though, the new Kathy Reich's book was worth it ( Read more... )

Alani and I planning on making mochi Thursday night.

Does anybody want some?

Most of my life, I've been chopping off the tops of daikons and tossing the leaves. Today's batch of daikon had some beautiful green leaves, so I decided to do something with them.

Figured I'd make a stir fry of leaves, mushrooms, a little bacon, pepper, some dashi and shoyu.

Notes to self - perhaps cook it a bit longer. Add ginger? Add garlic