At work today, I had to go out in a boat with some of my coworkers and inspect the Black Rock Canal park dock. It's so decayed - you can poke through the webs and flanges of the steel beams with your finger. I'd almost be scared to go underneath with the boat but it's stood for this long. Good thing it is closed.

We didn't have the right ingredients to make a curry with paneer, so instead (e:terry) and I made a Tricolor Pulao. It was super simple - just cook some vegetables with cumin, chili powder and some other spices, and then add the rice to cook with the vegetables. It turned out okay, but adding habanero salsa added enough spice.

Yesterday (e:Terry), (e:Paul) and I went down after the pouring stopped to go to the first square of the year. Shaggy was playing - not only was he really bad (half the songs were him talking over other top 40 songs), he thought he was in Albany. The music might have been better after but we left to make dinner.

Another month, another bierklub. This month had a bunch of pale ales, and a few IPAs. The weirdest was probably a pineapple beer - it was so sweet and light it might as well have been a wine cooler. After, we got back and played bocce (better than board games to me).

Last night we headed over to my parents' for Daniel's 18th birthday. It was actually on June 1st, but they were in NYC for the Colbert Report and Daily Show that weekend.

My mom made kebobs, quinoa and fruit salad, stuffed shells, and then we had three different desserts. I tried to make goat cheese brownies, but the goat cheese I bought had thyme in it. Instead, I just made regular ones.


The grass I planted last year is sort of alive!


Nerd

Der beste Hund





Cake - I wish I recorded it because birthday cake and candles makes Midnight bark along to "happy birthday"