Last night we joined up with captial_l and technolope to go out to Arlington for a Halloween gathering. As within our friend circle, it was a low-key affair -- fdmts wore a taco costume (with sombrero!), and I wore a Medicine / Science officer outfit from Start Trek TNG. (Just couldn't suspend disbelief all THAT much!!) Much fun and good food was had by all, with a ( Read more... )

The people at work (in the ultrasound unit) are generally very good cooks. There's a large contingent of the people there who love to bake, and then there's a few others who make other interesting things. We have a sort of birthday cake round robin -- you bring dessert for the person after you, and we have a list ( Read more... )

Ok, so we're totally back from -- what's the phrase, fdmts? -- spending a blistering amount on dinner. But boy was it good.

It was one of those "if you have to ask..." places, quite unintentionally. But we stumbled on the one restaurant that everyone has heard of but no one has been to...except us. Meritage is located in the Boston Harbor Hotel ( ( Read more... )

With almost TWENTY POUNDS of cabbage?!??!

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So, today started out (kinda) normally ( Read more... )