It's time to post about ordinary things
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rivka...at least, for me it is.
We had a small alt.poly get-together last night, in honor of Darkhawk and Kevin visiting from Boston. Originally, they had been coming down for a Red Sox game, but said game has now been rescheduled for October 6. So we had dinner instead - the two of them,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wcg and Paula, Ben, mittelschmertz, jodawi, Misha, and I. We went to one of our favorite local restaurants, a Brazilian steakhouse. They start you with a buffet crammed with an amazing variety of prepared dishes, and then guys dressed like gauchos come around with assorted grilled meats on two-foot spears. It's all you can eat, and excessive consumption is almost irresistable.
Some of my favorite things they have are on the cold bar: steamed mussels and shrimp, calamari and raw vegetables in a vinaigrette dressing, olives with hearts of palm, a salad of blanched greens, chick peas, and artichoke hearts, fiery green beans with cubes of some soft cheese that was probably sheep's milk-based, marinated mushrooms. And then the lamb, the crispy-skinned chicken, the seared rare sirloin, the turkey meat wrapped in bacon, all of them seasoned and redolent of the grill...
Oh, and the company was excellent as well. Darkhawk tells the only cat stories I've ever heard that haven't bored me, probably because she acts the part of the cat so vigorously. Most folks came back to our place after dinner to drink coffee and tea and chat, and it was all a very relaxed and comfortable evening. By unspoken common agreement, the most tragic subjects broached were the decline and fall of the Red Sox, and the ravages certain posters have inflicted on alt.poly. Ben rubbed backs. Darkhawk and I worked on needlework. There were long technical discussions of computer programming, which I mostly tuned out but which the participants appear to have enjoyed.
I needed an evening like that. I really feel that I'll be able to return to work tomorrow and be worth something.
(Thanks to the TOCOTOXling for my two new userpics.)
We had a small alt.poly get-together last night, in honor of Darkhawk and Kevin visiting from Boston. Originally, they had been coming down for a Red Sox game, but said game has now been rescheduled for October 6. So we had dinner instead - the two of them,
wcg and Paula, Ben, mittelschmertz, jodawi, Misha, and I. We went to one of our favorite local restaurants, a Brazilian steakhouse. They start you with a buffet crammed with an amazing variety of prepared dishes, and then guys dressed like gauchos come around with assorted grilled meats on two-foot spears. It's all you can eat, and excessive consumption is almost irresistable.Some of my favorite things they have are on the cold bar: steamed mussels and shrimp, calamari and raw vegetables in a vinaigrette dressing, olives with hearts of palm, a salad of blanched greens, chick peas, and artichoke hearts, fiery green beans with cubes of some soft cheese that was probably sheep's milk-based, marinated mushrooms. And then the lamb, the crispy-skinned chicken, the seared rare sirloin, the turkey meat wrapped in bacon, all of them seasoned and redolent of the grill...
Oh, and the company was excellent as well. Darkhawk tells the only cat stories I've ever heard that haven't bored me, probably because she acts the part of the cat so vigorously. Most folks came back to our place after dinner to drink coffee and tea and chat, and it was all a very relaxed and comfortable evening. By unspoken common agreement, the most tragic subjects broached were the decline and fall of the Red Sox, and the ravages certain posters have inflicted on alt.poly. Ben rubbed backs. Darkhawk and I worked on needlework. There were long technical discussions of computer programming, which I mostly tuned out but which the participants appear to have enjoyed.
I needed an evening like that. I really feel that I'll be able to return to work tomorrow and be worth something.
(Thanks to the TOCOTOXling for my two new userpics.)
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Date: 2001-09-16 10:48 pm (UTC)Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-17 08:15 pm (UTC)Mmmmmm. Pie.
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Date: 2001-09-17 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-18 06:53 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-18 07:05 pm (UTC)I'm crushed.
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Date: 2001-09-18 10:50 pm (UTC)Rivka, what is Dexter's Laboratory Ice Cream?
Re: Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-19 04:36 am (UTC)When the little alt.poly gathering came back to my place after dinner for coffee, some of us had ice cream. Strangely, there were no takers for Dexter's Laboratory. Just me. Everyone else had vanilla.
Re: Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-19 09:46 am (UTC)Re: Oh, OK...
Date: 2001-09-30 12:26 am (UTC)I bet jodawi would have eaten the crunchy ice cream, though, if he hadn't gone back to the office.