just finished eating lobster roll and crab roll at the lobsta truck. Also, had fresh squeezed lemonade and whoopie pie even though i’m not a
dessert person and i hate frosting. I liked the crab roll better than the lobster roll. Both were on a piece of toasted texas toast. Yum!
Should i make resolutions for the new year? This year was a biggie. There’s a lot i can resolve to do since i’m so far behind. Do my stretches. Get on my bike. Conquer drupal. Redesign this blog. Draw something and write something each at least 3x a week. Write one short story (oooohh, that’s a bold one). Take more pictures. Video blog once a week. Learn how to cook a new dish once a week. Go to the beach once a month. Ok, i could keep going but i’ll probably turn this into a huge to-do list and then chastise myself when i don’t complete it so perhaps i should just resolve to be gentle with myself and look forward to learning and doing and eating new things in the new year.
It used to be like this: Los Angelenos would disappear between xmas and the new year. Those who stuck around (why would you leave? How could the weather get any better?) got the freeways all to themselves. I was convinced my theory still held true until i reached the 110 today. Traffic around downtown. And those poor souls travelling east on the 10. Stuck in their usual morass. But for a few hours today, and 5 out of 6 (405, 101, 134, 210, 10 west) freeways, i zoomed nicely along enjoying the scenery and the space.
I love wafers of all kinds: kit kat, quadritini, those pink n yellow n brown ones that taste super sweet and fake, torcik wedlowski. I’m not really obsessed with the fake wafer you get at church but that’s because it has all sorts of symbolism attached to it. My favorite wafer of all time, though, is the oblaten in its original flavor. They are perfect wih a cappuccino.
Uh! This app is really frustrating. It won’t post photos properly. Makes me want to try tumblr.
Here is the rest of the salsa bar: the orange one that looks like marmalade is a medium spicy. I’m not a super taster-i can’t place the flavor. But i’d get it again. It’s not vinegary. The middle is bland, watery pico de gallo. The last is much better pico de gallo, just a hint of spiciness.
…is making homemade veggie broth and standing at the sink for 3 hours picking tiny worms out of porcini mushrooms so my honey can have her favorite soup at xmas-time.
Poquito mas has one of those help yourself salsa stands. Risking potential diarrhea, i sampled the offerings and here’s what i found: the brown one with black flecks is a smoky chipotle type sauce. Not my fave. The onions. Self-explanatory. The green sauce is appropriately mild with a hint of cilantro. The orange sauce is disgusting. Bitter. Rancid. Like Tapatio on vinegar steroids. But definitely the hottest. The red is tomatoey. Tastes like pasta sauce. I think i skipped a few from the selection. Missing from the picture is standard pico de gallo.
m says: “i’d be interested in doing a meetup (dramatic, hesitant pause) uh, if I had to.”
As I peruse web site galleries and learn more about html5 and css3, I’m amazed at how certain design elements are back in style. Background images have been stylish for a while. Fixed navigation a la frames are back (wireframes magazine, simplebits, envato). And now that css3 allows rounded corners on buttons and divs, it appears that in order to showcase this new feature, sites need to use them ad nauseum (envato again, daniel, django stars, easytasker, futuretap – quick google search to find these…it wasn’t hard. they are everywhere.). I suppose it doesn’t help that the iPhone has rounded edges and all the apps have rounded edges…
I’m not the best designer in the world but I was designing with rounded buttons and rounded divs since the year 1999 (seriously, no Prince reference intended). How about we up the ante and show the world something they haven’t already seen?