Whew! It’s been quite a stretch of traveling and speaking, but I’m finally getting a bit of a break. I spent Friday evening and most of Saturday in Chicago for a conference, and had a great time despite the brief stay – I had the mandatory hot dog and deep-dish pizza on Friday, and was able to run along the river Saturday morning before the conference. I’d love to be able to go back at some point and stay a little longer, but for now I’m very excited to spend time at home with Lacie and Morgan.
Despite the hectic schedule imposed by the wedding this weekend, I was able to get out and run in Concord a little this morning. It was interesting, because the last 130 or so miles I’ve run have all been indoors, on a treadmill, and today I was outside in a light rain. For all that difference, though, I had a nice, quick two miles - and without the enforced speed of the treadmill, I averaged about a minute per mile faster than the pace I normally aim at.
Here’s the route I ran.
Two weeks after my last visit, I’m back!
Well, technically I’m in Concord, but this time I’ve got my family in tow. We’re up for my brother-in-law’s wedding tomorrow, which should be fun (assuming the tail end of Hurricane Bill doesn’t drop too much rain on the outdoor festivities).
The biggest deal with this trip, though, is that it was Morgan’s first airplane ride. She’s a little under the weather, but she did great on the flight. I’m looking forward to lots of future travels with her.
Just finished making (and consuming my portion of) a nifty tilapia recipe that I got from this past weekend’s Splendid Table. Essentially, it’s a couple of filets, lightly floured and seasoned, cooked for a minute or so on each side in olive oil. While the filets cooked, I dumped in a roughly chopped jalapeno, some garlic, and kept things moving around the pan fairly well.
Once I took out the fish, I dropped in some chopped mango (not yet ripe, unfortunately), and half a (wonderfully ripe) peach, and let all of that cook together for three or four minutes. Finally, I finished it all off with some lime juice, and took a bite - and it was great! Well, except for the underripe mango - but I just moved that aside in favor of the peach, and I was a happy eater. Yum!
So I’m in Boston for the first of two trips this month - this one’s for Developer Day, and I’ll be back in two weeks for my brother-in-law’s wedding. I like this city a lot, not least because it’s very easy to find amazingly good, non-chain food. I had a remarkable brown sugar-mango curry at The Similans a few hours ago, and I’m still thinking about it. Mmmm! Now if we could just get a place like this in Durham, I’d be ecstatic.
(The title of this post is a tribute to the Great Vowel Shift)
So, thinks look a little different around here, no? No more orange header, or me with a dog on my head (at least, for now), or Wordpress… What’s going on?
It’s pretty simple, really. I’m a variety-loving person, so when something stays the same for too long I get uncomfortable. Given that, and that I could benefit from some work-life separation, I’ve decided to split my formerly-unified blog into two new sites: this one, at culann.com, for life stuff, and a new one at benscofield.com for career things. In the interest of making a clean break, I’m not going to import posts from the old blog, but I will leave them online at archive.culann.com (so if you miss the orange or the dog on my head, you can always visit them there).
