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So Friday's lunch took me within a block of my apt to a coffee house/bakery, La Boqueria. Cool dude, grew up in the neighborhood, spent some time in Europe adding to his cooking/baking skills. Saturday morning I decided to eat out at Ronnie's Cafe. Manuel and Amy had recommended it to me. Not bad but not the most authentic shit on a shingle either. I posted Yelp reviews on both places.
I stopped at Albertson's to pick up something for dinner and ended up with a 1.37lb salmon fillet. I usually only buy the 6 or 7 oz portions because the whole fillets are over 2lbs and I really have no clue what to do with it. I took the fillet and put it on a rack in a baking pan, melted some butter with ground garlic and Italian season that I spread on it. Covered it in foil and baked at 350° for 30 minutes. Ate about 1/2 of it with steamed cauliflower and put the other half on top of bagged salad which was on sale for $1 at lunch today. Sunday I accidentally made some really good dressing that will be the subject of it's own thread. Sunday morning I started breakfast with a half cantaloupe. This is memorable because I rarely eat fruit. It made my orange juice taste funny too. :-)
2008, Romantic Drama, PG-13, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman
This movie got an Oscar nomination for costume design. Not really the strong point for me. What was the highlight for me was the scenic footage of Australia. Even though it is fiction they tried to be historically correct especially about the aborigines. While I watched it over 2 viewing sessions because it is almost 3 hours long it kept me interested the whole time. I would definitely recommend it.
My phone would no longer show charge complete no matter how long I left it connected. And I had to charge it every two days instead of 3-4. I could search around and come up with a battery for $15-20 or I could get a new phone for free, the latest iteration of the last two phones which have served me well. Two things lacking in the old phone. Texting with a numeric pad sucks and I had no ability to edit texts or notepad entries. So I looked at a few phones with some extra features. The notepad thing is more important than it sounds. I have kept a pad of paper in the apartment with a separate page for each of the normal places I shop. That works fine if I remember I am going shopping one of those places on the way home and put the list in my pocket on the way out the door in the morning. As often as not I would not pick up the list and get to the store and forget something. Now I can keep running lists for each of those stores. It's not like a synced PDA or a smart phone but it does what I need it to. I found out real quick how much faster I can text even with those itty bitty keys. And if I do make an error I can fix it without erasing all the way back. And of course sound clarity and battery technology have improved in the last three years. What I got was an LG enV3, cost $29.95. It fits in my existing holster and I hardly ever used my car charger on the last two phones so I got out of there with no accessories as I had recently purchased a Jawbone II to upgrade my headset. It is going to take a bit of time to learn all the things it can do and I haven't even thought about going on line with it yet.
Started off my day sleeping in until almost 6. Next stop was the MVD. I had to sell off my truck which had a vanity plate on it. Got there at 7:45, waited in line, got in and got called to a window at 8:04. Now here is where it gets goofy. I can go online and order up a new vanity plate anytime I want for an existing vehicle and they would charge me the fee and send it to me. It turns out if I have an existing plate I can only swap it at the next renewal. I fail to understand why I cannot just pay the fee and swap it out.
The MVD happens to be 2 blocks from my apt. and my hair stylist is also in the neighborhood. So I get out of the MVD at 8:12 and go back to the apt to cool my heels until 9. Getting there 10 minutes early I beat out an old lady by about 3 steps to get my stylist first.
So then I go to work for a bit and take off for lunch at the Golden Greek (35th North of Glendale, review on Yelp) which was pretty good.
By the time I did all the running around, put in a couple of orders and chatted with a bunch of customers I think I go maybe an hours worth of actual work done the whole day.
2008, PG13, Daniel Craig
Lots of fast paced action. I enjoyed it. Now is that a short enough review or what? :-)
And I followed it up by sleeping in until almost 7 this morning. I had a free ticket to the Diamondbacks vs Dodgers game. I was joined by some friends for three innings who went down to try and improve their seats after a while. I happen to like sitting up high where I can see the whole field. With only one eye working well I have poor depth perception so up high works, and these were pretty good seats, on the rail just past 1st base. Instead of paying $12 for parking I opted to park at FEZ and take the light rail down for $3.50 round trip. That was my first trip on the light rail and right off the bat I lost my balance not realizing how much faster electric motors accelerate compared to propane motors on buses. I almost landed on a kid, pulled a muscle in my upper arm and stomped on the toes of the kids dad. One hot dog and one beer totaled $15. The beer was Gordon Biersch Hefeweizen for $10, the option were a bunch of generic lite beers for $9, no contest. But I did bring my own liter of frozen water for .35 instead of $4. They bring in extra rail cars for major events and I was surprised how fast they moved several thousand people out of the Central core after the game, which we won in 10 innings. Getting back to FEZ for a late dinner I found I missed a bit of excitement. The president had dined two doors down at Macayo's and his secret service staff, 20 of them, had gone in to FEZ for drinks and appetizers.
And for dinner? FEZ has a monthly $5 special that you can find on Facebook or their website but doesn't show on the menu. This month is a Turkey burger: "Hand made Turkey Burgers, grilled, topped with field greens, roma tomatoes, provolone cheese and a roasted red bell pepper, olive tapenade, on whole wheat ciabatta; served with a field green salad with lemon basil vinaigrette. FIVE BUCKS!" It was delicious and not heavy on my stomach like a beef burger would have been that late. Their burgers normally go for $10.95 so that was quite a deal. I ordered a glass of Sam Adams summer ale and got the last 1/2 glass in the last keg. They gave me a full glass of Boston lager also but I don't really care for it as much. By the time I got home at 11 I was beat.
While I was at FEZ Thomas, the GM, filled me in on some details of Rickie's, his SO, upcoming fashion show at The Devils Martini. I am not into high fashion and I am not going but it should be a good show with Thomas doing the emcee and Intuit providing the music.
Not bad for a budget night out. I cannot wait until the economy picks back up so I do not have to watch every penny. Of course then I won't have time for an outing like that.
Friday August 14th, 5-9PM
This event was hosted by Hickman's Family Farms and several restaurants normally only open for breakfast and lunch. It was a charity event to benefit Arizona foster children. The deal was: you bring in a pair of new childrens pajamas and you get a dozen eggs. And while you are there you can eat off of the breakfast menu. I went to Scramble with a group of Yelpers and we ended up sitting around for almost two hours. Attendees were encouraged to wear pajamas to the event and many families had children in pajamas but the only adults I saw in any type of house wear were the employees of Hickman's and the restaurant. It was really a fun event.
Here is a picture album of the event. I am not sure whether you need a Facebook account to view it or not.
ARRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!
So, alternating between regular movies I am also doing TV Scf-fi on Netflix. Currently I am working my way through Battlestar Galactica. This week the Diamondbacks have been playing in the East so I have had time to catch an episode or two after the game. Saturday night disc 4 ends with the first half of a two parter. Not bad because I already have disc 5 sitting there. Sunday I pop disc 5 in and watch the second part which happens to have a cliffhanger ending. No problem, I have time to watch the next episode. No way would they ever put out a disc with only one episode on it. I hit menu, no more episodes, check the sleeve run time and sure enough there is really only one episode!! They mailed me off the next DVD this morning and I will have it tomorrow. I suppose things could be worse, at least I do not have to wait months until the next season starts like I would have if I had actually been watching it on TV.
A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs
and asked a blonde stewardess to take care of them for him.
She took the box and promised to put it in the crew's refrigerator.. He
advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them
staying frozen, mentioning in a very haughty manner that he was
lawyer, and proceeded to rant at her about what would happen if she let
them thaw out.
Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behavior.
Shortly before landing in New York , she used the intercom to announce
to the entire cabin, "Would the gentleman who gave me the crabs in New
Orleans , please raise your hand?"
Not one hand went up ... so she took them home and ate them.
Two lessons here:
1. Lawyers aren't as smart as they think they are.
2. Blondes aren't as dumb as most folks think .
Aka granny panties, briefs. I came of age in the last decade or so of the use of belts and napkins. Tampons were just starting to become available and self stick pads were not yet designed. All that hardware took a lot of containment so all women wore full briefs during their period. Before PMS was defined it was semi popular thought that the mood changes were in part due to the inconvenience of dealing with a period. I remember my ex and I coined term B-flats as they just were not as sexy as the panties she normally wore. So just why am I moved to remember this particular piece of nostalgia? Oh yes, this is supposed to be a movie review.
Zack and Miri make a porno.
2008, R, Seth Rogan, Elizabeth Banks
One of the early scenes is some kids taking a voyeur photo of Miri in her "period panties" as she is changing clothes at Zacks work. In spite of the title it's actually a chick flick. Funny in many places, a little gross in a couple of places. Of course only the supporting actors/actresses are ever seen without clothes. I enjoyed it.
4700 N 16th St., Phoenix
It's been a while since I did a Friday lunch out. This month's Yelp Office Hours turned out to be on a Friday so off I went. Any meal out is much better with pleasant folks to chat with while eating. The food was generic sandwiches, salads, soups. I had a grilled cheese sandwich, cup of clam chowder and and iced tea. Bill came to $12.16 which I thought was a bit steep. But at least the food was good and the company great. For me it was about 25 minutes each way so lunch was almost 2 hours by the time I got back. There is a more detailed write up on Yelp.
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