Chris’ eldest daughter, son in law, and her new baby grandson are arriving this evening so we spent much of the day getting ready. I went to the farmers market to pick up vegetables and got some nice looking eggplant, squash, green beans, more jalapeños, cilantro, and basil. Tonight is also the Sons of Norway … Read more
I had time to make a cream custard I’d been wanting to make for a bit. The idea was to use the ginger liqueur we got at Loon Liquors and make a ginger flavored creme brûlée without the hard sugar top because I’m not interested in that sort of fiddly cooking. I used the standard … Read more
I finished up the draft of a web project for one client and in the evening had two networking groups. The first was another meeting of a group I went to a couple weeks ago. The first meeting was free, this one was $35. If I was here more I’d buy their membership but for … Read more
I worked on a bunch of stuff. More interesting, my girlfriend Chris and I declared it Date Night and we went out to dinner and ice cream. Dinner was at our favorite Mexican restaurant in Farmington. So far it’s the only one I’ve really liked here. That it is on the very edge of the … Read more
In the basement I set up a spare table of my girlfriend Chris’ to use for a satellite office. I’ll lose my current “office” in a few days as it’s a spare bedroom and 3 1/2 additional people are arriving to visit on Saturday. It should be more than suitable with headphone. The wifi is … Read more
The weather got warmer today and it was definitely warm in the morning for my walk. Later there was a thunderstorm with moderate rain and then the humidity went away again. It should be pretty nice tomorrow. I worked on several business projects today and made good progress. The follow up call with the event … Read more
My girlfriend Chris and I got up early and headed north to visit her parents. One of her brothers was slow cooking meat for tacos and we had ingredients for Cobb salad and accompaniments for the tacos so we all ate well. It was a nice visit and I came in 2nd in one of … Read more
My girlfriend Chris and I went to the farmers market to pick up more vegetables. I want to keep making Thai curry regularly and the farm fresh cucumbers are delicious. We are going to visit Chris’ parents again tomorrow and we are bringing Cobb salad and taco ingredients so I did prep for all of … Read more
I had a morning call with the event planner I talked to earlier in the week. Among other things I presented what I think would work best for her business. Undoubtedly the price was higher than she wanted to hear but she also thought it was reasonable. She is going to think about it over … Read more
I went to an 8am early networking group. I was invited by a guy, Ed, I met a couple weeks ago. It’s a paid group I can’t attend but I could visit. A lot of the paid groups have attendance requirements so not only do you have to pay but you have to be there. … Read more