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A Fun Day, with Meat
We hit the grocery stores this morning, and stocked up on a variety of dead animals, including a nice trio of KC strip steaks in the Sun Fresh clearance bin, then wandered over to Aldi and acquired some cheap stuff there.
Back home for a rest, then off to the Nelson-Atkins to see the Mughal exhibit. It consists of pages from various books from the 16th and 17th centuries, with an amazing amount of detail (to the extent that magnifying glasses are provided so you can the individual flowers and the patterns on the clothes and the feathers on the birds). The colors are incredibly vivid, even after all this time. If you get the opportunity, I recommend it very highly. The large signs describing the various parts of the exhibit are very well done, as well. It's very rare that I get to see the fruits of my labors.
Part of the festivities today included dancing and music, and samples of Indian food. By the time we got back to the main hall, there was an Indian rock band playing, and the line for the food was almost as long as the line to get into the exhibit, so we wandered around the gift shop for a bit, then headed home.
At 5p, with one eye on the weather, I fired up the grill and prepped the steaks. We had acquired two bags of IQF chicken breasts, and Dragonet thought it would be good to throw a few of them on the grill for use in recipes in the future. The bag we opened had six huge breasts, so we threw them in a ziploc with Italian dressing and then cooked them all. The steaks came out just right for all of us (cooking three steaks to three different degrees of doneness is an art, I tell ya), and the chicken finished shortly after dinner did. Having had nothing to eat all day, I had the smallest of the chicken breasts after I finished my steak. And now (actually, as I typed the hyphen in Nelson-Atkins), the rain started, and I hustled downstairs to put the grill and accoutrements away.
And now, for a quiet evening of digesting. Om nom nom.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. After my thrilling 94th out of 107 finish in the Lawyers, Guns and Money NCAA bracket, I decided to participate in their ESPN-based fantasy baseball league. I had to come up with a name for my squad, and after a bit of thinking decided to name them after my favorite black Irish baseball player, thus O'Quendo's Irish Rovers. We'll see how they do. In real world baseball news, I don't think we'll be braving the 40˚ weather and possible snow to check out Kauffman tomorrow. Such is life.
Back home for a rest, then off to the Nelson-Atkins to see the Mughal exhibit. It consists of pages from various books from the 16th and 17th centuries, with an amazing amount of detail (to the extent that magnifying glasses are provided so you can the individual flowers and the patterns on the clothes and the feathers on the birds). The colors are incredibly vivid, even after all this time. If you get the opportunity, I recommend it very highly. The large signs describing the various parts of the exhibit are very well done, as well. It's very rare that I get to see the fruits of my labors.
Part of the festivities today included dancing and music, and samples of Indian food. By the time we got back to the main hall, there was an Indian rock band playing, and the line for the food was almost as long as the line to get into the exhibit, so we wandered around the gift shop for a bit, then headed home.
At 5p, with one eye on the weather, I fired up the grill and prepped the steaks. We had acquired two bags of IQF chicken breasts, and Dragonet thought it would be good to throw a few of them on the grill for use in recipes in the future. The bag we opened had six huge breasts, so we threw them in a ziploc with Italian dressing and then cooked them all. The steaks came out just right for all of us (cooking three steaks to three different degrees of doneness is an art, I tell ya), and the chicken finished shortly after dinner did. Having had nothing to eat all day, I had the smallest of the chicken breasts after I finished my steak. And now (actually, as I typed the hyphen in Nelson-Atkins), the rain started, and I hustled downstairs to put the grill and accoutrements away.
And now, for a quiet evening of digesting. Om nom nom.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. After my thrilling 94th out of 107 finish in the Lawyers, Guns and Money NCAA bracket, I decided to participate in their ESPN-based fantasy baseball league. I had to come up with a name for my squad, and after a bit of thinking decided to name them after my favorite black Irish baseball player, thus O'Quendo's Irish Rovers. We'll see how they do. In real world baseball news, I don't think we'll be braving the 40˚ weather and possible snow to check out Kauffman tomorrow. Such is life.