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Wednesday night
Apr. 10th, 2002 11:26 pmWednesdays are magic days! At least, that's what we decided today, on Magnus's first real day off so far (besides Sunday. They're closed on Sunday.) Yay!
We overslept, naturally, and that was nice. Finally made him get up because I started thinking that he'd never be able to go to sleep tonight if I didn't. *grin* Not like *I* didn't want to get out of bed... :) Anyway, then my mobile phone rang. Caller id said unavailable, which meant it was from Sweden. (Well, theoretically, anything out of the country, and possibly in the country, though it hasn't happened yet) would probably show up the same way, but in our situation.. Sweden. Right. Anyway, bad connection at first, and then finally the hellos. Then this male person says "Where is this?" and I say "WHO is this?" and he asks for Magnus. I almost said (this is the reason I'm going into so much detail, btw): "Oh! Pontus!", and then hope for a startled "how did you know?" comment, so I could point out that it wasn't his dad, and it wasn't Blatt, and it certainly wasn't either of the other two guys they hung out with, but I hardly recognized him when he wasn't pretending to be the KY state police.. :) Anyway, Magnus was laughing and jabbering on the phone for quite some time, and I was glad that he had fun. Actually talked to the two that I said it certainly wouldn't be, as well, with a combination of speakerphone and other phone line. Hehe. Anyway.
So we got ready and left.. did the banking and the errands and had lunch at Sonic, which we never do. Not horrible, but bland. Magnus likes it, though. Toaster sandwiches, ya know. We found this.. hunk of beef.. for lack of a better way to describe it on sale for $1.99/lb. It was labeled something like this: butcher's premium london broil sirloin steak, or something. It was over an inch thick and 2.09 pounds, and it was $4 or so. Also bought 3 pounds of ground beef.. I'm sick of chicken and not having anything to actually make dinner with.. grocery shopping alone is so boring. So we're having Manwich, burritos (forgot the sour cream, ugh), and.. an unknown third dish this week. Hopefully I'll have figured something out by then. Oh, I could make chili. That sounds good. Mmm.. yes. Chili. Tomorrow, perhaps. Anyway. Completely irrelevant. I was just going to say that I marinated it with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and some italianish seasonings for a few hours, and then cooked it in my handy dandy grill pan that I'm still in love with, with fried potatoes and béarnaise sauce. I, by the way, am really not into sauce all that much, and it's a little hard to know what to make for a sauce freak. Anyway, the neat thing was that we used a package to make the sauce (M. claims that this is the way it's done always.. hehe) and I tried it (pretty good, actually) and immediately placed it as the (unknown to me.. I didn't read menus much, hehe) sauce on the meat at the outdoor cafe place behindish Gröna Lund the day we met the mud people there. It was a really good day, and it made me all smiley and stuff, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll never be able to eat it without thinking of it. :) Which is kind of neat.) Anyway. Wow, I'm rambly tonight. Point was that it was incredibly good. Timing was off, as I've never actually cooked meat that thick before, but everything stayed warm while we waited for it.
I was informed earlier that I need beta testers for my lovely Convert-It! software. *sneef*. I'd just like to point out that I was taught in grade school that 0 = 32 F, and so there's absolutely no need to perform that particular calculation! :) It doesn't do anything if you try to convert 0, because it thinks there's nothing to convert. I suppose I could work on fixing that. Or I could just tell M. not to try to convert 0. . . tough decision.. :)
Magnus and I are having a running discussion, by the way, about how many people are reading this. I'm under the distinct impression that the number is exactly two--counting me and him. He's not so certain. If anyone welcomes the chance to prove me wrong, let me know. ;)
We worked on the mandolin site earlier, and I'm pretty much finished with the graphics for the front page. Yay!! Also, Magnus did some text editing and sorting, so I may be able to pull that together tomorrow or the next day. Need to do some code and graphic optimization and tweaking, and also kill anyone who uses Netscape 4.x. :) No, actually, it's not all that much of a difference, but the table isn't aligned properly with N4. I think if I search for the problem seriously, and fix my style sheets a little, it'll be fine. At least, I'm making myself believe this for now. :)
My parents mowed the lawn today. It looks really nice.. first time of the season. The grass is turning all green and some of the trees are beginning to get a little touch of green. It's a good time of year to live here. :) 67 degrees all this week, pretty much.
Oh well. I could write on and on about how there was a new Good Eats (or at least a new to us rerun) tonight, and how we got the kitchen cleaned up and the cars checked out and stuff, but that's kind of boring, so I won't. :)
We overslept, naturally, and that was nice. Finally made him get up because I started thinking that he'd never be able to go to sleep tonight if I didn't. *grin* Not like *I* didn't want to get out of bed... :) Anyway, then my mobile phone rang. Caller id said unavailable, which meant it was from Sweden. (Well, theoretically, anything out of the country, and possibly in the country, though it hasn't happened yet) would probably show up the same way, but in our situation.. Sweden. Right. Anyway, bad connection at first, and then finally the hellos. Then this male person says "Where is this?" and I say "WHO is this?" and he asks for Magnus. I almost said (this is the reason I'm going into so much detail, btw): "Oh! Pontus!", and then hope for a startled "how did you know?" comment, so I could point out that it wasn't his dad, and it wasn't Blatt, and it certainly wasn't either of the other two guys they hung out with, but I hardly recognized him when he wasn't pretending to be the KY state police.. :) Anyway, Magnus was laughing and jabbering on the phone for quite some time, and I was glad that he had fun. Actually talked to the two that I said it certainly wouldn't be, as well, with a combination of speakerphone and other phone line. Hehe. Anyway.
So we got ready and left.. did the banking and the errands and had lunch at Sonic, which we never do. Not horrible, but bland. Magnus likes it, though. Toaster sandwiches, ya know. We found this.. hunk of beef.. for lack of a better way to describe it on sale for $1.99/lb. It was labeled something like this: butcher's premium london broil sirloin steak, or something. It was over an inch thick and 2.09 pounds, and it was $4 or so. Also bought 3 pounds of ground beef.. I'm sick of chicken and not having anything to actually make dinner with.. grocery shopping alone is so boring. So we're having Manwich, burritos (forgot the sour cream, ugh), and.. an unknown third dish this week. Hopefully I'll have figured something out by then. Oh, I could make chili. That sounds good. Mmm.. yes. Chili. Tomorrow, perhaps. Anyway. Completely irrelevant. I was just going to say that I marinated it with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and some italianish seasonings for a few hours, and then cooked it in my handy dandy grill pan that I'm still in love with, with fried potatoes and béarnaise sauce. I, by the way, am really not into sauce all that much, and it's a little hard to know what to make for a sauce freak. Anyway, the neat thing was that we used a package to make the sauce (M. claims that this is the way it's done always.. hehe) and I tried it (pretty good, actually) and immediately placed it as the (unknown to me.. I didn't read menus much, hehe) sauce on the meat at the outdoor cafe place behindish Gröna Lund the day we met the mud people there. It was a really good day, and it made me all smiley and stuff, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll never be able to eat it without thinking of it. :) Which is kind of neat.) Anyway. Wow, I'm rambly tonight. Point was that it was incredibly good. Timing was off, as I've never actually cooked meat that thick before, but everything stayed warm while we waited for it.
I was informed earlier that I need beta testers for my lovely Convert-It! software. *sneef*. I'd just like to point out that I was taught in grade school that 0 = 32 F, and so there's absolutely no need to perform that particular calculation! :) It doesn't do anything if you try to convert 0, because it thinks there's nothing to convert. I suppose I could work on fixing that. Or I could just tell M. not to try to convert 0. . . tough decision.. :)
Magnus and I are having a running discussion, by the way, about how many people are reading this. I'm under the distinct impression that the number is exactly two--counting me and him. He's not so certain. If anyone welcomes the chance to prove me wrong, let me know. ;)
We worked on the mandolin site earlier, and I'm pretty much finished with the graphics for the front page. Yay!! Also, Magnus did some text editing and sorting, so I may be able to pull that together tomorrow or the next day. Need to do some code and graphic optimization and tweaking, and also kill anyone who uses Netscape 4.x. :) No, actually, it's not all that much of a difference, but the table isn't aligned properly with N4. I think if I search for the problem seriously, and fix my style sheets a little, it'll be fine. At least, I'm making myself believe this for now. :)
My parents mowed the lawn today. It looks really nice.. first time of the season. The grass is turning all green and some of the trees are beginning to get a little touch of green. It's a good time of year to live here. :) 67 degrees all this week, pretty much.
Oh well. I could write on and on about how there was a new Good Eats (or at least a new to us rerun) tonight, and how we got the kitchen cleaned up and the cars checked out and stuff, but that's kind of boring, so I won't. :)
