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“Ugly! ‘ll have you know that I chose this face out or the billions available because it happened to be the face of the greatest and most prolific lover that ever lived!”
Filed under: food, latest illness, voayges and vacations | Tags: | March 3rd, 2006
I’m back home at last! I took the train last Sunday and got home at about 6 pm at was back at work the next day after a stop at the clinic for a doctor’s appointment. Good news – I’m supposedly very healthy, don’t have HP and since I’m feeling much better now I guess that’s all finished. Thanks goodness … it sure was miserable.
Work was crazy but exciting. My new assistant started this week and I think things are going to be great. Also one of the experiments we did this week worked on the first try to my absolute surprise – I really expected we would have to optimize it more. Hooray!
I can’t wait to get started using all those cool tools I learned about at the bioinformatics conference. I have been trying to convince my iBook to compile a variety of biofinformatics packages this week but without much luck. I finally tracked the problem down to some files that appear to be missing in the X code tools installation and I decided it was time for a os update and re-partition anyway, so I just backed up all my junk (3 gigs of it – where does it all come from) and am doing a 7 pass erase of my hard drive. Hoping the latest OS and X code will solve the problem.
I’m sick with a cold and decided it was best to stay home today. I needed the extra sleep I got this morning and will probably take another nap soon. One of the people in our lab is defending her thesis in less than two weeks so I thought I sould quarantine myself from her so she doesn’t get it. Hope it worked.
When I got back, Dan had a whole bunch of lovely prezzies for me including:
The Brazil soundtrack
Dragon Tears jasmine tea
Prince of Wales tea
French caramels
First season of Red Dwarf, which we have already watched
A nice supper on Sunday when I got back.
He always gets such nice presents for me when I go away and it is so nice to come back and see a tidied-up apartment and a meal waiting to be eaten!
I got hot cross buns at the boulangerie yesterday .. can’t believe its that time of year already. They were really good.
Our fried Tyler is giving up meat for lent this year. Way to go T!
I can’t wait to move… in 4 months we can say goodbye to a lot of annoying things, not the least of which is falling light fixtures!
Working on TO blog and pics, maybe by the end of the weekend.
Tyler H. | March 4th, 2006 @ 6:40 pm
Aw, what a nice Dandroid! He’s a shining example for single guys like me of how to appreciate your wife.
Thanks for the vote of confidence about the Lent thing. So far, so good, although I have to get back in the swing of vegetarian cooking. Your dumpling recipe will come in handy, and there’s a few other things I’ll have to try. If you’ve got any other recipe suggestions, please pass them along.
Hot cross buns are good, but Paska is what Easter tastes like to me. I should totally try to make some this year!
http://www.magma.ca/~lomatski/eastreci.html
Karen | March 5th, 2006 @ 8:50 pm
Mmm that Paska looks good. If you don’t make any this year, is there anywhere here that sells some (unlikely, but thought I would ask)?
How was the birthday party?? Sorry we couldn’t come!
Veggie suggestions… well we just had miso soup and the shitake mushroom recipe from this post with rice for lunch and it was really nice. All vegetarian except the bonito stock used to make the miso soup. If you don’t count the bonito stock, lot of Japanese recipes like that tofu stew thing will work. You can also try making homemade pasta sauce (alfredo, rosé, marinara, etc) and just skip adding meat to them. I have two alfredo sauce recipes and one rosé and marinara, so I will post them here later today. If you’re eating eggs, a soufflé is really nice too. I also have recipes for those and will post …
Karen | March 5th, 2006 @ 9:52 pm
Ok, just posted some recipes…let me know if you try any of them!
BTW If you make the dumplings and freeze some, make sure you let them freeze for 2 hours before putting them in a freezer bag together or they will all stick together and you will be sad and hungry when you go to eat them!
Tyler H. | March 8th, 2006 @ 12:36 am
The only time I saw paska for sale in Montreal, it was priced something ridiculous like $7 a loaf. I bought a loaf of regular raisin bread instead. Not quite the same, but I’m on a budget!