bored at work
Doing some computer checking before work, email and such. Decided that a post was in order, at least until TD comes in to work on getting rid of Alice's body.
I didn't mention our new year dinner. Wife had ordered (via internet) a smoked pheasant for christmas dinner. It never showed up for Christmas, but arrived in time for New Years. I've never had pheasant before. Interesting taste. It arrived smoked and vacu-sealed in it's little hairnet, somewhere in size between a chicken and a game hen. The meat was pinkish, and very full. More breast meat than a chicken (at least for it's size. Really, about the same amount as a chicken, on a smaller bird). The flavor was what surprised me. I don't know if it was the smoking or what, but it tasted more like a ham than chicken. Even the consistency was ham-ish, denser than chicken meat. All in all it was very good, though not something I'd want to do often, not even yearly. We then popped a bottle of champagne ('scuse me, sparkling california wine), that I'd gotten for opening of Greetings, at midnight. Wife is not a huge champagne fan, preferring sweet wines (without bubbles too), but this was pretty good. We left it open overnight, and in the morning, corked it. The next night, it was perfect. Not as many bubbles for wife, but still pretty sweet. We also were given a bottle (small keg?) of wine from a friend. She'd had it in her pantry, unopened, for half a dozen years, and knew we'd (meaning I'd) drink it. I've been having a tumbler or two each night for the last couple nights. Not bad, just a tad flat, but not to wifes tastes. Drinkable, but nothing to write home about (but evidently it was blogworthy!).
Finished watching Simpsons 7 last night. Cable TV has been crap the past week. I'd seen a lot of the episodes before, but there are some of my favorites in there. There was a report last week on NPR about words going into the dictionary from the past year. One of the words on their watch list was one from the Simpsons (besides D'oh, which is already IN the dictionary), was cromulent. It was from one of season 7 episodes, telling the history of Springfield and Jebediah Springfield wanting to embiggen the common man. Mrs Crabapple said that she'd not heard that word before coming to Springfield, and another teacher snapped that it was a perfectly cromulent word. I loved it. I'm starting to use it more and more, trying to get it into the dictionary! It's even in Websters, via Dictionary.com
Oh well, I guess I should get SOME work done today.
I didn't mention our new year dinner. Wife had ordered (via internet) a smoked pheasant for christmas dinner. It never showed up for Christmas, but arrived in time for New Years. I've never had pheasant before. Interesting taste. It arrived smoked and vacu-sealed in it's little hairnet, somewhere in size between a chicken and a game hen. The meat was pinkish, and very full. More breast meat than a chicken (at least for it's size. Really, about the same amount as a chicken, on a smaller bird). The flavor was what surprised me. I don't know if it was the smoking or what, but it tasted more like a ham than chicken. Even the consistency was ham-ish, denser than chicken meat. All in all it was very good, though not something I'd want to do often, not even yearly. We then popped a bottle of champagne ('scuse me, sparkling california wine), that I'd gotten for opening of Greetings, at midnight. Wife is not a huge champagne fan, preferring sweet wines (without bubbles too), but this was pretty good. We left it open overnight, and in the morning, corked it. The next night, it was perfect. Not as many bubbles for wife, but still pretty sweet. We also were given a bottle (small keg?) of wine from a friend. She'd had it in her pantry, unopened, for half a dozen years, and knew we'd (meaning I'd) drink it. I've been having a tumbler or two each night for the last couple nights. Not bad, just a tad flat, but not to wifes tastes. Drinkable, but nothing to write home about (but evidently it was blogworthy!).
Finished watching Simpsons 7 last night. Cable TV has been crap the past week. I'd seen a lot of the episodes before, but there are some of my favorites in there. There was a report last week on NPR about words going into the dictionary from the past year. One of the words on their watch list was one from the Simpsons (besides D'oh, which is already IN the dictionary), was cromulent. It was from one of season 7 episodes, telling the history of Springfield and Jebediah Springfield wanting to embiggen the common man. Mrs Crabapple said that she'd not heard that word before coming to Springfield, and another teacher snapped that it was a perfectly cromulent word. I loved it. I'm starting to use it more and more, trying to get it into the dictionary! It's even in Websters, via Dictionary.com
Oh well, I guess I should get SOME work done today.
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