Unfaithful

Owing to her HTML class, her novel plotting class, broken ankle, treks to the city, and all that jazz, Grapeshot has been an unfaithful correspondent this week.

First the novel: the teacher pretty much ripped the beginning part of my California plot to shreds, but I will pursue. Just have to make sure the story in compelling, which it will be if the characters are.

HTML: I had the best geek out last night between 7:30 and midnight fiddling with my new web site. I had pretty much forgotten HTML except for a few (very few) basic tags, and now I find I have to learn it all over again. Got the home page and a few links up. I think I am happiest when I am all by myself doing something technical. How can this be?

Ankle is better. Wednesday, we trekked into Boston to the Museum of Science for an evening program. Got off the Green Line at the Museum stop, to be confronted by 4 flights of stairs to be navigated. 4! Four! Some of the signs pointed to the Spaulding Rehab center. Go figure. So I hobbled down, and walked a few blocks to the museum. Walked some more. Sat in the front row and my foot hurt. At the end of the lecture, we took a cab to Legal Seafood, had a dinner than couldn't be beat and walked a block to the Red Line which took us home sans more hiking and stairs.

Sold on Sole: Legal had grey sole on the menu with baby spinach and a lemon caper sauce. Portions were huge and I cannot tell you how good it was. The old Kendall Square Legal Seafood has been remodeled and it looks so nice. Technical types galore. I set a scene from Festival Madness there. I worked in the office bldg. above Legal for many years, and know that area in my bones. The old fire house is now a ritzy hotel. We used to fantasize about making it into a funky restaurant that served baked bean sandwiches.

Tonight we are again going into the city. This time I'll forget vanity and wear my big ugly splint.

It is so easy to whip up something cheap and good to eat that I am always amazed at how so many people eat out all the time or do take out.

I had a small head of cabbage (on sale) and 2 leftover chicken sausages (on sale). I sauteed some ultra delicious Shaller and Weber slab bacon, added onion, scallions and garlic, then some chopped carrots, chopped tomato, snipped chives, water, 3 kinds paprika and a chopped potato and the shredded cabbage and cooked until done. It wasn't soupy--more like a cabbage stew. And so yummy. Use lots of pepper. Good for you, too, with meat at flavoring. We had a similar soup with pasta and chicken and veggies earlier in the week. These meals cost practically nothing.

We're still harvesting tomatoes like crazy, and the basil is still good, the sage is a bush and the cilantro and dill have reseeded themselves.

Again, life is good.

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