Walking around Honolulu today wearing my "OBAMA - HAWAII 'OHANA" shirt today, getting lots of smiles.

I think the simplicity of it is that the Nobel committee likes people who start conversations more than it likes people who start wars.

That was this morning. I guess I haven't really left Seattle time behind, getting to bed at 8pm last night and being up at 530am this morning, local time. We ended up sitting on the balcony for quite some time this morning, overlooking a large expanse of palm and other trees as the sky lightened up, entranced by the large chorus of many different ( Read more... )

Ya know, curiously enough I haven't been able to find anyone in Hawaii that doubts Obama was born here.

We arrived in Honolulu midday Saturday after a six hour flight from SeaTac. Bless my daughter-in-law for getting up at the first emergence of dawn and driving to Lake City from her nice warm house in Bellevue and getting us to the airport in time for security clearance before an 8am flight. We had a rental car waiting for us and managed to stumble ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post this for a while. As an ongoing request, if any of my local friends have prunings or storm-downs or other branches off of their fruit trees, please let me know. I need the branches or other trimmings to feed into my smoker. I love me some home smoked trout, or brisket, or whatever.

Thanks!

My partner is so friggin amazing it blows my mind. She defended her master's thesis today and knocked them dead. She truly displayed mastery of the material and I believe that her presentation was so good that it defused another 30-60 minutes of planned questions. When the committee went off to confer and then come back for a planned in depth ( Read more... )

We have six ice cube trays and three are emptied and refilled within five minutes of arrival home [the cats deserve as much coolness as we can give them too ( Read more... )

Yeah, I've been hotter. Phoenix visiting my grandmother one day it got down to 100 degrees at midnight for a few minutes. Korean summers are as hot as Korean winters are cold. DC in August is heat stroke weather- 100 degrees and 100% humidity ( Read more... )

I've started to read the original blog of the Julie/Julia Project, to get ready for the movie. Gads - how could a foodie/movie junkie not love Meryl Streep doing Julia Child?

And a very happy 60th birhday to me today! July 9th, 1949 ( Read more... )