It's snowing here now. I went in early to work, worked through most of lunch, took advantage of half off burgers at Rock Bottom for dinner with the family. Vegged at home for the evening and now off to bed to start the cycle all over again. Another early morning tomorrow ( Read more... )

Jana's preschool is run by my employer, a higher educational institution, and it's located in a section of one of the dormitory buildings. Directly underneath her school, is one of many dining venues, The Underground. She sometimes asks when I pick her up to have dinner there. And tonight, we went there for dinner ( Read more... )

This week has been the 47th annual Greek Food Festival at a local Greek Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas. I try to go when possible for lunch during the week. For dinner, they have live music with dancing...we were there last night. It was a little much for Jana: the music was too loud, we were very close to the dancers and it was very crowded.


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Tonight's dinner: couscous with pine nuts, teriyaki chicken and a bowl of raspberries ( Read more... )

Ok, I don't particularly care for Ramen Noodles, you know, the kind that sells 50 for $1.00? I do enjoy authentic ramen noodles at little places that don't take credit cards, "cash or yen."

I just came across a relatively healthy and convenient solution by Annie Chun. I just had the Udon Noodle Soup bowl for lunch...


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As I'm having some down time after putting Jana to bed, I'm sitting at the dining room table with my laptop and a brand new pack of rugalas from Sam's Club. sitting behind the laptop We were there after school/work today ( Read more... )

I feel like I've been pulled in many different directions this week at work. Not necessarily bad, just a lot going on. The thing about the IT industry, is that one can spend a lot of effort in addition to hours on projects, and yet not really know how to answer, "So what did you do today?" at the end of the day ( Read more... )

I won a door prize at work today, a cake. LOL

We had a Supplier Show and one of the catering vendors donated a cake for a door prize. I'm absolutely tickled!


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My flight is at 7:30am. Conference is from Wed-Fri. I just found out that there is a Roy's in walking distance from my hotel. Bonus! Looking forward to Asian Fusion. I even just made reservations for Thursday night ( Read more... )

Michael's building a new mega server and going to try to consolidate machines at home ( Read more... )