Everything was frosted over this morning so I was not the least bit interested in going for a walk/run. Instead I headed for my laptop with the yummy chai Andrew made for me and caught up on my Twitter feed. I follow so many interesting people who post so many interesting things! I read a bit of Red Mars until Lauren came inside and put on Masterchef Junior. Holy crap, those kids are incredible cooks! They were between the ages of nine and thirteen and the complexity of their dishes was just ridiculous.
Andrew wanted to walk over to Mr. Green Beans and get coffee beans to roast and also get some lunch. It was so cold and windy outside but I told him I would go with him. I got all bundled up and we headed out. I whined and complained for the first five minutes or so because it was really cold. I persevered though and got used to it. Andrew and I both thought about going to Por Que No? for lunch so we wandered all the way down Mississippi. There was a bit of a line out the door but that’s very typical of the place so we made the best of it and were ordering and seated in no time. I got the vegan bowl with fresh corn tortillas and Andrew ordered the vegan tamale plate. He let me try his tamales and I have to say they were the best I have ever had. My food was excellent as always. We had a really nice lunch and Andrew gave me a pep-talk about my new adventure at Urban Airship that would be starting the following day.
We walked up to Mr. Green Beans and I looked at all of the cool stuff while Andrew picked out the beans he wanted. He ended up with about twelve pounds various types of beans. I am not a coffee drinker but all of the gadgets are so fascinating. I’d love to get a coffee syphon one of these days because they look like labware. We walked up Mississippi and stopped in a couple of interesting looking stores on the way. The walk was a bit warmer going home because we were mostly walking with the wind. It was wonderful to be back inside the warm house though!
I grabbed my tea and read a couple of news articles and then Lauren came in so we could watch more of those incredible child chefs. Tiberias wanted to Skype with Lauren and I so we talked as well as can be expected with an excited three year-old. We even played some strange version of hide and seek. He was entertained 🙂
Andrew had gone to The Lucky Labrador to meet Dave so they could talk about building a home file server so Wayne and I came up with French Toast as our dinner plan. Alice messaged and wanted to watch a movie afterward but Andrew didn’t come home in time so I watched more Big Bang Theory. Well that’s it for mindless television for a while. I sure did enjoy it though!
Tomorrow is the day……
Today I learned that food tastes different in space due to the way liquids circulate in the body in zero gravity and also because a lot of the food is sucked out of a pouch so there are no food molecules circulating in the air. When the food is not in a pouch the molecules tend to scatter in all directions rather than up toward the nose as happens on Earth. Or something like that 🙂