Happy Birthday to Jeff
If it weren't for birthdays, I'd hardly ever update.
Of all the people I know, Jeff most deserves his own theme song. Something mysterious with an opening like "There's a man who . . ." Actually, the theme from Shaft might be ok for him. He likes the funk.
A long-time friend will be visiting Suzhou in February. Mike formerly-of-Chicago-then-Ames-now-Long-Island will be in town on business and then his lovely wife (who I haven't seen forever) will join him for leisure. He will stay at the hotel which I can *almost* see from my office window. I'm looking forward to showing him around Suzhou and having him treat me to dinner ;)
In other travel news, my boss will be here next week, GP and I go to Thailand in 2 weeks (yeah!), I might have a trip to Japan in February, and . . that's about it. There are some interesting job things coming up - perhaps more on that later. The best interesting ones are that we might do some realy development work. Yippee! I'm very excited and I hope we get the chance.
I was inspired by Ohio Ann's blog of pork roast with sauerkraut so that's what we had tonight. I sent GP to the foreign food market for a pork roast and she came back with a 1 pound pork loin. Seared him in the wok (everything goes in the wok here) and then baked for 1 hour with some onion and apple. Sauteed the rest of the onion and covered the roast with sauerkraut (big can, from Germany, $4US), more onion and apple. Bake additional 30 minutes and YUM! Very nice piece of meat and we ate all with the champagne (uh, Freixenet wine with bubbles) we didn't open at New Year's.
Quick movie reviews:
- Madagascar - a little amusing after Freixenet
- 2046 - very interesting, multi-language love story, recommended
- Lust/Caution - good, but seems over-rated, might have been my mood while we watched
- My Blueberry Nights - surprisingly good, maybe not "good" but enjoyable and better than I expected.
Of all the people I know, Jeff most deserves his own theme song. Something mysterious with an opening like "There's a man who . . ." Actually, the theme from Shaft might be ok for him. He likes the funk.
A long-time friend will be visiting Suzhou in February. Mike formerly-of-Chicago-then-Ames-now-Long-Island will be in town on business and then his lovely wife (who I haven't seen forever) will join him for leisure. He will stay at the hotel which I can *almost* see from my office window. I'm looking forward to showing him around Suzhou and having him treat me to dinner ;)
In other travel news, my boss will be here next week, GP and I go to Thailand in 2 weeks (yeah!), I might have a trip to Japan in February, and . . that's about it. There are some interesting job things coming up - perhaps more on that later. The best interesting ones are that we might do some realy development work. Yippee! I'm very excited and I hope we get the chance.
I was inspired by Ohio Ann's blog of pork roast with sauerkraut so that's what we had tonight. I sent GP to the foreign food market for a pork roast and she came back with a 1 pound pork loin. Seared him in the wok (everything goes in the wok here) and then baked for 1 hour with some onion and apple. Sauteed the rest of the onion and covered the roast with sauerkraut (big can, from Germany, $4US), more onion and apple. Bake additional 30 minutes and YUM! Very nice piece of meat and we ate all with the champagne (uh, Freixenet wine with bubbles) we didn't open at New Year's.
Quick movie reviews:
- Madagascar - a little amusing after Freixenet
- 2046 - very interesting, multi-language love story, recommended
- Lust/Caution - good, but seems over-rated, might have been my mood while we watched
- My Blueberry Nights - surprisingly good, maybe not "good" but enjoyable and better than I expected.
posted by Matt aka Maxiu at
8:52 PM
1 Comments:
thanks, man. (and thanks for the taste of China - although my bourbon tastes the same no matter how you drink it, even from the bottle)
I'm in good company, too. Bob Denver, Richard Nixon... what more do you need?
Wish I had to go to Suzhou on business...
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