Look at me, getting this updated on a Monday again.\u00a0 Off to a solid start.\u00a0 What hasn’t changed is a complete lack of material to work with.\u00a0 Hey, that keeps it brief and makes the page load quicker.\u00a0 Anyway…\u00a0 Friday started off reasonably strong.\u00a0 It was a super-tiring week at work, so I just went home and joined the wife for a nice quiet evening.\u00a0 We’ve been on something of a roll cooking at home instead of going out, and didn’t see a good reason to break that streak.\u00a0 We made a salmon dish with good ol’ Costco salmon, and lemons and oranges off our trees out back.\u00a0 Pretty much everything we’ve eaten for the last few weeks, and several weeks to come, has lemon in\u00a0it.\u00a0 Whew there are a lot of them things, and they are good.\u00a0 After dinner we sat around and enjoyed each other’s company with some deep conversation and a glass of wine.\u00a0 Or, we may have sat in complete silence and stared at our phones.\u00a0 One of those.<\/p>\n
Saturday was perilously close to a complete waste of a day.\u00a0 Since cutting off our cable we’ve managed to get reliable streams of NBC, Fox, and ESPN, and all three seemed to have some worthwhile programming for us to waste our time on.\u00a0 The notable exception there is CBS…\u00a0 Darn them.\u00a0 Still haven’t figured that one out, and as a result we’re missing a few of the NFL playoff games.\u00a0 So be it, The Man ain’t getting my money.\u00a0 I suppose we could have headed out to a sports bar and watched it, but that sort of defeats the purpose of saving money in the first place.\u00a0 We also kept pretty busy watching our friend’s dog Renfield all weekend.\u00a0 They went out of town so we’re dog-sitting.\u00a0 It’s a good deal for us though, he and Quinn are bestest of buddies.\u00a0 A tired Quinn is a good Quinn.\u00a0 On the downside, when they AREN’T tired they can be a bit…\u00a0 “challenging,” but for the most part it’s a positive.\u00a0 For dinner, I went up to the grocery store and picked up some sushi.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 I realize grocery-store-sushi sounds a little dangerous, but it was actually pretty good.\u00a0 (And, more importantly, on sale.)\u00a0 It’s made from local rice too, and for whatever reason I’m a sucker for local foods.\u00a0 (That worked out a lot better in KC where the “local food” was delicious BBQ.\u00a0 Here it’s any varietal of white rice you could ask for!\u00a0 YUMM!!!\u00a0 Not.\u00a0 What can ya’ do.)\u00a0 The only problem I had was that they were a bit skimpy on the accoutrements.\u00a0 I could take or leave the wasabi, but I like my sushi-to-ginger ratio at about one to one, if not even leaning towards the ginger just a bit.\u00a0 Guess I better pick up a jar for such emergencies.\u00a0 After dinner we watched American Made<\/a>, which I think we both found entertaining enough.\u00a0 I actually stayed awake, so it must have been a real hit.<\/p>\n Sunday brought an eerily similar lineup of activities, which is to say, not much.\u00a0 I took the little hellions on a good long walk, which seemed to only moderately tire them while thoroughly exhausting me.\u00a0 I guess they’re packing a little less weight than myself.\u00a0 They both walk pretty well on their leashes though, no complaints.\u00a0 I’m starting to figure out how to correct Quinn when he starts acting up, he’s definitely making progress.\u00a0 If Teagan started going astray, I would grab the leash with both fists and yank as hard as I possibly could, which she may or may not have bothered acknowledging.\u00a0 Quinn does best with just a little tap on the leash with a thumb and finger.\u00a0 Anything more than that and the poor little guy just cowers and looks up at you like “What’d I do, what’d I do?!?!?”\u00a0 At least he’s learning I guess.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Some day.\u00a0 After that we watched the second playoff game, despite the grating annoyance of Joe Buck’s voice.\u00a0 I’m glad we stuck it out, that was quite the entertaining finish.\u00a0 For dinner we grilled a tri-tip and some artichokes.\u00a0 That was my first try at artichokes and they turned out…\u00a0 Edible.\u00a0 I’ll most likely file them in the “not worth the trouble” category.<\/p>\n\n\t\t