There was the usual amount of moaning and screaming from the Bonasarus last night. I ended up sleeping in a bit while Amanda got up with the kiddies. Sleeping in in this case means waking up at 8 or so. Amanda made pancakes for breakfast and left a couple for me.
It is Memorial Day today, but the weather sucked. It basically rained rather continuously all day. I already do not remember what happened in the morning, but I do know that the Bonasaurus refused to take her morning nap until way way way late. Amanda took Lonan Kai for lunch with his grandmother (whose vacation is over and was working at Virginia Mason). I believe they went to Subway. She went shopping at Trader Joes where the traffic in and out of the parking garage was crazy, judging from the text message that she had time to send me while trapped in parking purgatory.
After finally getting the baby to sleep, I idly cleaned up and looked into integrating Flickr with Facebook. I also experimented with Flickr’s new interface and capabilities as I had not really used it since 2005. When I also was merely checking it out but I had decided to not used it since their “free” version was not worth it to me… I had decided to host my own picture gallery. Nowadays, I took the gallery down for various reasons and may use Flickr again since they have revamped their free services. I do still use a Digital Asset Management product personally (ResourseSpace), but that is more for my personal use and not to show pictures to other people.
As it turned out, Flickr’s Facebook integration simply does not work for me. Or at least I should not get it to work. This is their “official” thing that apparently updates Facebook with all of your activity on Flickr automagically. Or not, in my case. However, one can still “share” pictures and sets and collections manually, which is fine for my purposes.
Upon waking, Bonasaurus had a lunch of peas and tofu khan. She was also very pleased that we had gotten string cheese from Costco the previous day and gobbled a piece down.
Amanda had invited JH/DH over for dinner, so she returned with suitable supplies (in addition to or usual grocery items). She was going to make fresh spinach linguini with fresh herbs and wilted spinach salad. Spinach and herbs from our garden! I was assigned a fish dish, and I made roasted alaskan cod and steelhead trout with roasted peppers, pine nuts, orange zest, and craisins. OK it was an experiment. Basically, I sort of marinated the fish in olive oil and orange zest. I sliced the peppers and roasted them in a roasting/serving dish. While the peppers were roasting I also toasted the pine nuts. Once the peppers were almost done, I added the fish (cut into finger size pieces) to the pan along with the pine nuts and craisins (while were soaking in the orange juice from the zested orange).
I guess it turned out alright. JH/DH seemed pleased with the fish and the entire dinner.
I had not decided on a fish recipe, so I had to go to the fruit stand to get additional ingredients before dinner… mainly the peppers. It was at this point I discovered I had no idea where my keys were. I suspect the Bonasaurus had done something with them. I am 99% sure they are still in the house as I must have taken them inside after coming home from City Peoples the previous afternoon. I still have not found them.
Our guests had a crazy public transit travelling day as they went to the Folklife Festival to see some friends perform. Apparently even though it was raining raither heavily for most of the day, the Seattle Center was completely packed.
Anyways, it was a fun dinner. Bon and Kai got to stay up much later than normal, but they are now asleep. Amanda is on the couch, and I am trying to finish writing my 750 words for the day. After which I supposed I will keep looking for my keys. Maybe the Bon threw them under something.