What's on your Thursday Menu?

This is another concert road-trip right? Have so much fun!

Yup! San Francisco again. Love time with my girl.

Where you headed somehow, I missed it.

Em and I are going to another concert in San Francisco. It's for one her favs this time.

Mornin' All!

sorry to hear about your knee, QJB - plus everything else that's going on with you. I can kind of relate due the chaos I seemed to be dealing with the last two months - but luckily, things have settled down finally. I finished my classes (a week late - luckily the class pages were still up!), I'm done decommissioning that server for one of my organization (took HOURS - plus dealing with a couple of technical glitches - but it's GONE!!), and today I'll be introducing the speaker for the last event I've planned for another organization I've been heavily involved in (a lifelong learning organization for people age 50+). I'm rolling off the board after this season because it's just too much, everyone who was formerly involved in organizing lectures gradually dropped off, until I was the only one left this year, and it has been a huge PITA. I have no idea what they'll do next year, since they have no one lined up to plan and organize lectures (although they'll still offer theater trips, various other field trips, and non-credit classes, since those are planned by other committees). I guess if no one steps up, they just won't have lectures next year - and I'm not going to worry about it. Today's will be great. A professor on campus who's a Vietnam vet and who teaches courses on the music of the Vietnam War era (among other things) is speaking, and there will also be a band, made up of other Vietnam vets, called "Vets on Frets", who will be playing several of the songs that Doug will be addressing. The band rehearsed for it yesterday afternoon, so I went over to hear them. They were just great! This is going to be one of the best programs ever, so I hope that auditorium is packed!!

Film discussion group yesterday was great - very interesting conversation about "Navalny". Last night I watched a long-overdue DVD (from the library) about Charlie Trotter, who during his short lifetime was considered one of the ten best chefs in the world. Since he was from Chicago (and his first restaurant was there), and he was a graduate of my university, and given his stellar reputation, I've been intrigued by him for years. I'd been to his deli in Chicago several times, but never his regular restaurant (we could never afford it) and I have one of his cookbooks (which is largely inaccessible, even though it was meant for home cooks - but still, it's fun to look at). Loved the film, and I knew he was a real PITA to work with, but I didn't realize just how much of a PITA he was, or how driven. He was livid when one of his long-time employees left to open Alinea, a guy whom he'd personally trained and developed. He told the guy (Grant Achatz) that he was dead to him, and he (Trotter) pretty much fell apart a couple of years later when Alinea ended up getting one more Michelin star than Charlie Trotter's did. I think that was pretty much the beginning of the end for him.

anyway, QOTD: no - we just have a regular doorbell. But a ring might be nice - if for nothing else, to see who's at the door. I no longer open it unless I'm expecting someone, but I'm sure that there have been times when it's been "legit" - like a neighbor. Had I known, I would have answered the door.

B: protein shake, coffee with half & half

L: probably skyr with fruit - or taco filling with tomatoes and plain Greek yogurt

AS: whatever I don't have for lunch

D: one or two chicken kebabs and some grilled vegetables

have a great day, everyone!

P.S. in case you didn't recognize the name "Alinea", that was the place Jim, Marilyn, Lisa, and Rog ate when Lisa and Rog were in Chicago. Jealous!!

I don't know what that is, but it's not food.

LOL! Interesting presentation, very small portion of food if that is the shareable amount.

Good morning, everybody!

Marilyn picked me up at the train last night and said ?I have good news and bad news about DS? schedule.? Being a somewhat sunny person, I said good news. ?He is enrolled in 389 for summer.?

?Well then what?s the bad news?? And, here it is: ?They aren?t offering the 1 credit lab that goes with the course until fall.? And, of course, that is scheduled at the same time as another class that he needs to graduate.

Plus, he gets an incomplete for the 3 hours of classroom 389, that he does this summer until he completes the lab. There is no corresponding suspension of payment for the course fees.

So, what he needs to do today is work with his counselor (who I rate as a C-) to try and make some sort of accommodation to allow him to do either the lab or the conflicted class on an independent study basis. When I hear the term ?lab?, I think of chemicals and beakers, but for electrical engineering I believe it?s actually all computer simulation, so hopefully they can make this work.

Our computer has a blown hard drive. It?s seven years old, so we are deciding whether to repair or replace.

At lunch today, I have to go and enter a raffle for Taylor Swift tickets for DD. I am actually going to Dallas tomorrow to go to Dead & Company with her, so I better not forget.

QOTD: We don?t have one.

Breakfast: protein bar

lunch: something near the raffle

dinner: Butter chicken

Have a great day, all!