So tonight we had dinner at the Porcupine Grill for the CHPC office party and Debbie made a special trip up to go with me. I haven’t ever taken somone with me to the office party, so it was a real nice change. The food was pretty good, but I made the mistake of taking some advice from some of the people and went with the surf and turf option because the ahi tasted very nice. I can’t really complain about the filet, however. It was very nicely done. Debbie did hijack my choice of desserts, though, and I ended up with the porcupine– a chocolate encrusted chocolate cake/chocolate moose concoction shaped like a porcupine and served with ice and whipped creams. On that choice, though, it turned out to be the right one.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
I, Slacker
So at the Clay Arts Utah fall pottery sale I was in I met a woman from A Gallery who liked my stuff and asked if I would be interested in showing there. She told me to get a few pictures up to an email address at the gallery, so I (finally) borrowed Jacks digital camera and tried to do a quickie shoot tonight. The pictures didn’t come out too well, so I suppose I need to reset tomorrow and shoot right, but the light here sucks no matter where I am, I think, and I can’t shoot with a flash due to the glossy nature of the glazes. I guess it would work better if I knew a little more about the camera, or if I just went and did it right with the roll of tungsten slide film I have in the fridge and the lightbox at school, but I’m a lazy, lazy man…
Up on the chair-top, kitten paws
So these kids I brought home are really a handfull. They seem to think that the whole house (that they’ve been alowed to explore, so far) belongs to them, which I should know, from experience with the long list of cats I’ve known. I think I’ve grown complacent on how my current cat, C.T. Shino, sticks to the lowlands. The highest he’s ever gone is the bed, and when I got a taller bed, he wasn’t quite sure about being more than 3′ off the ground. So now I’m going around trying to figure out where would be really bad for these kids to find. They seem to like the top of the back of my chair, the stack of laundry baskets at the foot of my bed and the headboard of my bed.
Shino the orange slinker hasn’t come out of his hidey hole of his own volition that I’ve seen since yesterday morning. I brought him out and tried to soothe him for a few minutes. He was ok as long as I was holding him on his back in my computer chair (the only position I’m allowed to hold him in) but he didn’t take kindly to being moved to the bed which was occupied by the kids, and retreated back to the safety of the corner.
Chance is totally mezmerized by the kids and can’t leave them alone.
Three little cats
So I have started lots of entries that haven’t gone anywhere explaining lots of things. Maybe I’ll finish them, but maybe I won’t. In any case, I’m getting married one month from today, and I’m going to try to post something every day until then. Even if it’s just a picture. Today I came back, as has been my routine lately, starting with a 5:30 a.m. drive from Mt. Pleasant. This time I brought the three kittens with me to try to find a home for them before they stop being cute. They’ve been playing and napping all day in my room, much to the displeasure of shino, the resident cat. He’s still upset in his hidey-hole behind the amps under my desk. I’m not sure how I’m going find them homes, but maybe I’ll have a Christmas Miracle.
Then I’ll have something to write about.