Friday, July 30, 2010

Chris shutters at ribs 4 red cross downtown toledo

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

yo ho ho

You know, I don't drink a lot of beer. And I had no intention of drinking any tonight but Sherry bagged on our small GNO so Amy and I went to the City Tap with all the boys who are the backstage committee for the Black Swamp Arts Festival. And Donna. Who is not a boy but probably wishes she was. We had an "official" meeting at GFT at 6 but that was done by 7 and the real work got done at the City Tap part.

I end up having 3 pints which is, do the math, 48 ounces of beer. And draft beer, which is more dizzying.

So my darling daughter has taken the plane to LA after a somewhat tearful drop off at her dad's last night about midnight. I am glad to have had her for the trip to my mom's and dinner with Frank's mom and the rock and roll hall of fame day and a couple of nights on my deck. It's a big step in her life but I know she will roll with it.

I had bought 6 ears of corn last night at that little market on South after work so tonight I stripped it off the cob and froze it before I lost it like I did those couple ears I had last weekend.

The northwest Ohio rib off website is unavailable. This after I email them last week that it was showing the 2009 schedule. Amy believes there is blues there Sunday but all I can find is Matt Schofield, like we know who that is.

Another week of no nights home alone. Monday dinner at Chip's with out of town guests. Tuesday Anne. Tonight the BSAF meeting. Tomorrow taken. Friday Chris Shutters and Polka Floyd at Promenade Park and Andrew Jr Boy Jones at the Clazel. Saturday dinner at Revolver.

Looking so forward to the Lyle Lovett weekend in GR, MI, where there is a Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Got a lovely rain today. Needed it. Time for bed. That work every day is so tiresome.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Another busy day

Gave my presentation at work and although I forgot a couple of points, it went over like gangbusters. The new president of the OTVs (Owned Television Stations) was wild for it. She said no other web managers had given a presentation.

We went to Georgio's for dinner. Gack. You could have chicken or salmon or beef or swordfish or scallops, which is what I got. They were nearly indiscernible one from the other and all came with 2 redskin taters and the motley undercooked vegetable melange. And a greek salad with bad lettuce. The creme brulee was delish however.

When I rose to go, the prez said again what a swell job I had done. Whatever. Not like it's going to get me a high paying job.

Back to the grinds in the AM.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Day off

Today I took off work and took my daughter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I didn't pick her up til noon so I got a lot of stuff done first, some pilates, and watering and planting those new perennials I bought at Meijer, and paying bills. La ti da.

We were in the R&R HOF for almost 3 hours and pretty much covered it except for that Bruce Springsteen special exhibit since we are not such fans. We saw many costumes and merchandising items and guitars and were reminded that both Jim Morrison and Hendrix died at the ripe young age of 27. Can you believe the Doors only recorded for 4 years and left such a big mark? Saw a lot of video clips including one of Keith Moon drumming for the Who. Many of my band favorites turned out to be the dead ones, him and Brian Jones, for example. Some parts of the Elvis section seemed to be missing so Anne hopes they will be at Graceland for his 75th birth anniversary display, where she will be going this weekend. It was an amazing time.

Then we ate at Lola, where we had beef cheek pierogi and a charcuterie tray with prosciutto, and soprasetta and duck bacon and some terrine and duck sausage. She also had a salad. She had scallops with pork belly croutons and I had smoked pork chop with cheesy polenta and barbecue onions. Yumba. And for dessert, I had a light berry mousse with a pistachio crust and she had what is called the 6AM special with maple bacon ice cream on top of pound cake french toast.

So now I'm home and tomorrow is the big dog and pony show at work where we will sit in the freezing conference room for something like 6 or 7 hours going over our budget with the people from headquarters and then we have to go out after with them to eat at Georgio's. Where they have a lot of veal and chicken entrees. Another typical Toledo lackluster menu. They don't even have tablecloths for chrissake.

But at least it will be Wednesday and then almost the weekend. When there is Bryan Lee at the Clazel and TunaFest on Friday and the Dragon Boat races on Saturday.

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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Hot fun in the summertime

It seems I'm always charging a device. The iPod, the iPad, the phone. Tonight I pulled all my old music off this computer onto a hard drive, freeing up a bunch of space that was bogging down the operation of this computer. Too many computers. Too many passwords.

I forgot to pay my utilities this month because I threw away the bill along with my Lyle Lovett tickets which I still have not got squared away getting replacements for. Hope I didn't throw anything else of value away.

My mom called tonight to see if I would come down this Saturday to see my cousins from Michigan. So I guess I will.

Now I'm hooked on this iPad app called Words with Friends where you play Scrabble online with either someone you know or some random person the game assigns you. Todd from work is the only person I know but I've had some random games. It took me and Todd 6 days to play our last game. Tonight I somehow played join for 102 points what with the triple letter for the J and double points for the whole word.

Anne's cat is here visiting for July and after a couple dicey nights, they all seem to be getting along OK although the Big did hook Tink in the flank last night because she sniffed at his kitty din dish. Only the Big gets the kitty din. Others: kibble.

I went to the fireworks with Anne and my nieces Jessica and Elizabeth. That was swell. The program seemed a little short but it was paid for by a fund drive or we wouldn't have had any. Somehow the reverberations bounced off the building behind us and sounded like geese honking. We sat in the line to get out for about 20 minutes and then came back here and had black raspberry cobbler and then the nieces went home and I talked to Anne until 2 a.m. She has a line on an exciting job that I won't talk about here so as not to jinx it. Tonight she is out celebrating Jess's birthday which is tomorrow.

It's been almost unbearably hot, 95 and humid. I have both ACs running and it's still not all that cool in here. Tomorrow, a front is supposed to come in and produce rain and cooler temps. Like 85. Which it was last week and seemed fine because it got down to 60 at night. Instead of 84 like it is now at almost 11 p.m. Although those silly cats still stay out, lounging around on the deck.

The Fourth weekend was very eventless. Although we did go to the Art Museum Friday night and to a couple metroparks on Saturday. I got 3 new hosta and a couple daylilies at Home Depot on the cheap and planted them and am trying to keep stuff watered. The lawn is dormant. I made some iced tea and salad Nicoise and been taking salad and cottage cheese for lunch at work. So sensible. So unlike me.

Have hardly been drinking although last night I had a marg at dinner. Drank Perrier at GNO tonight at Ginger's where it was carb snack city plus ice cream. Ginger's gardens are fabulous and I can see they're a LOT of work. Amy says Ginger also has good hardscaping which apparently is a patio and a pond with fish and paths and stuff. Although it was hot, people sat out on the patio, some smoking, some just being hot.

My yard looks fairly fabulous, the lilies are blooming, the tomatoes are growing (slowly), herbs are holding up, plenty of jalapenos coming on if you need some. The stuff out front is almost overgrown, there's so much but it's beautiful.

The people who bought the house next door come almost every day and work on the inside but they still haven't moved in.

I have a bunch of pictures but of course that's step 2 of blogging.

A lot of craziness seems to be flying around the atmosphere. Remain calm.
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Friday, July 02, 2010

Art museum peristyle terrace with blind bobby smith