You’ve all probably read or heard by now about the Bay Area freeway collapse–early Sunday morning, a gasoline tanker speeding through the MacArthur Maze in the East Bay flipped over and exploded into flames. The driver escaped with 2nd degree burns, but heat from the fireball melted steel girders and collapsed a double-decker section of […]
Victoria gets credit for today’s title–her reply to my response to this scientific proof that science has been lying to us about the source of life. The logic is so convoluted, I can’t even follow how exactly he thinks he’s making a point. See for yourself: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/50013/. Given that the science is too difficult for […]
Candy’s got a urinary tract infection, but after just two days on antibiotics she’s already looking pretty darned chipper. Here she is trying to get me to hurry up and play.
This can happen.
Gjetost likes to cuddle on my lap so much that sometimes she becomes a pain while I'm trying to use my laptop. This morning I decided to do a Kalia (our friend Kalia keeps her huge orange cat Sam in a Baby Bjorn while she’s working at her computer) and try zipping her into my […]
Magdalena brought an Apfelstrudel that was out of this world–gorgeous, with an amazing aroma, and unbelievably delicate. I do believe it might have been the most popular item served (after the lutefisk, of course). Magdalena graciously agreed to share her family recipe with us. So here it is, in her words. I don’t know how […]
Getting back to the Smørgåsbord blogging, at long last! We’re no longer working in chronological order, here, but I want to get these guest recipes (this post and the next, lucky step 13) up soon. This recipe, graciously provided by the aforementioned Katja, is a beautiful, beige salad. You wouldn’t think it would be attractive, […]
We had our furnace installed and working by about 5pm last night, and when we left for my Oakland East Bay Symphony concert at 7:20, it was still cranking away on full blast. (This fancy-schmancy furnace has a big burner and a little one, and two fan speeds, so that it can do little fires […]
For those who missed earlier episodes of “Fun with V and E: The Great Indoor Winter of 2007,” our furnace started gasping its last breaths late last week, just in time for a week of record low temperatures. (You’ve probably heard that the California citrus and avocado industry is expecting a $1B loss, and the […]