Update

Hello All,

Its been a bit since my last post. I've been busy with a combination of different things in my life. Jason Duplissis, My old high school friend, and former roommate from my Woburn days came up this weekend. It was a good weekend overall. The anchor event of the weekend was a Lobster/Steamer feast I had on Saturday. Really the entire weekend was all about eating. Chinese food on Friday, seafood Saturday, and a homemade "moose-meat" chili on Sunday as a prelude to the Patriot's game. Not to mention Friday, my group at Millennium went to "Top of the Hub" for lunch on the company. For those unfamiliar, it is a swanky high end restaurant at the top of the prudential building, which is an approximately 50 story highrise (I forget the correct #, I think its something weird like 51 or 52). The view was the best part, as I had not been to the Prudential observatory since I was a kid. The food was good, but the portions were small and more about their appearance than every thing else.

So my first attempt to introduce seafood... specifically lobster, to Kate was unsuccessful. She tried a little morsel, but wasn't very enthused. Ahh, she doesn't know what she's missing. Lobster is, in my opinion perhaps one of Mother Nature's finest creations. Its taste is unmatched. I was mentioning to Jason that I heard of a psychology study that people like seafood so much because it reminds them of placental fluids, or the biological source from whence life claims, which is an interesting theory. I find that most people who don't like seafood tend to be those who just never ate any of it in their formative years. It just seems like it should be such an all encompassing "taste" excluding people who are allergic of course.

Knowing that seafood might not have been a big selling point I cooked up some steak tips a-la John Madden style. John, Thanks for that addition to my cooking knowledge.

Jason didn't eat a certain strip of meat from the tail, which he supposedly heard from a culinary show that he wasn't supposed to. I always remove the "lobster colon" for lack of a better term... but if the meat tastes good and isn't mushy green stuff... as a rule it gets consumed. I think that "culinary tip" was more directed towards presentation and preparation. Not to mention it aids in getting to the colon. If you were going to serve lobster tails, that would be the only way to access it without ultimately splitting the tail, and then it wouldn't be as pretty when you put it on a plate with cilantro or whatever. Any how I only raised my eyebrows slightly and ended up scoring those leftover pieces of meat, because I have no shame.

Well looks like "Scooter" Libby took a hit. I'm thinking that if I was a friend of Bush's, and he gave me a nick name that caught on, I might me worried that I was jinxed. We had "Kenny Boy" of Enron, then "Browny" of Fema "I B.S.-ed my resume fame", and now Scooter. Of course I don't really think W cares about the "Plame Affair" quite as the media would like you to think, because at the very worst it will probably mean a couple new appointments in the administration. If anything perhaps he's even a bit pissed at Rove and Cheney.

The whole world is such a mess right now. There is so much I could come on here and rant and rave about. I'm sure you can look forward to some more of that this week however to bring close out this weekend, I'm afraid I'm not going to be that inventive.

On an up note, the Patriots won!

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