Published on
September 30, 2007 in
Seattle.
Kenny and I have been cooking with a lot of herbs lately (in large part because we love Jerry Traunfeld’s The Herbal Kitchen). This means we’ve been making quite a few trips across the street to QFC for herbs from the produce department, and it’s pretty frustrating to spend three bucks on a 1-ounce container of tarragon when you can get a whole plant for about the same amount.
So this weekend, instead of hitting up the QFC, we took a trip down to our local City People’s Garden Store and hooked ourselves up with a few little window sill-sized ceramic pots, and a couple of starter herb plants: tarragon and Italian parsley. We’re going to see how we do with these and hopefully branch out to some other favorites, like rosemary, chives, cilantro, and maybe even lemon verbena. Unfortunately it was too late in the season to get mint, which we also love. We put the plants on the sill of one of our westward-facing windows. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that they’ll actually be able to grow now that the gloomy fall days are upon us, given that most herbs are supposed to be sun-lovers.
My dad is well-known for his green thumb. Hopefully it runs in the family… (if I fail, I will be sure to point out that my father has a huge advantage, living in Southern California and not Seattle).
Published on
September 24, 2007 in
Seattle.
Kenny and I took our first ride on the Connector this morning. From what I can tell, things seemed to be running flawlessly (at least on our route) on day 1. We feel a bit silly using the Connector from where we live, since we’re well-served by public buses, but taking just one bus door to door is certainly more convenient then transferring from the 43 to the 545. And if MSFT is willing to run the bus, we might as well take advantage, especially since our bus wasn’t even full (our route does seem to be one of the less popular ones even though so many Microsofties live in Capitol Hill – must be all that competition from the 545 :)).
It’s a pretty exciting new program, and I hope it’s successful. Now, if only my team would move downtown…
Published on
September 20, 2007 in
Politics.
Via Andrew Sullivan, an interesting survey that assesses your attitudes about five basic “moral foundations” and allows you to compare your answers against others who have taken the test and self-identified as “liberal” or “conservative.”
Andrew took the survey to try to confirm or deny his assertion that he’s “still a conservative,” in spite of the stance he’s taken against Bush and his war.
I didn’t have too many doubts about which side of the issues I’d end up on…
Update: I forgot to mention, the green bars represent my responses… (a reference from Kevin reminded me that I had failed to clarify that).
Published on
September 14, 2007 in
Food.
Speaking of Remedy Teas, it looks like they’ve completely made-over their site since I last visited. And they now have a blog.
Published on
September 13, 2007 in
Seattle.
Before Kenny and I moved in together, Vidya would describe our relationship by saying “it’s complicated, and it involves cars.” Which was pretty much true. We had two residences and two vehicles, but we carpooled to the office, and always seemed to have an extremely difficult time remembering whose car we had driven to work or where the heck we had left them. It wasn’t uncommon for us to wake up at my place and find out that we didn’t have any cars there – so then we’d walk to his condo to pick up a car to drive to work.
Things have gotten much simpler since we’ve shared a residence, and we’ve stopped using his car in favor of my hybrid, but we still screw up sometimes. Today Kenny needed to stay late at work for a customer event, so I dropped the car off at his office and took the bus home. And then upon arriving home I realized that when I dropped off my keys in his office, I had forgotten to grab his, so I was locked out of the house. And Vidya, my “keymate,” is in India, so I can’t call her to let me in. Fortunately I live around the corner from Remedy, so I’m chilling with a “Pesto Cream” sandwich and a pot of rooibos and playing Scrabble online with my brother.
On a related note, we’re thinking about donating Kenny’s car since we haven’t been using it. We figure this is probably the only time in our lives that it will be feasible for us to only have one (since we don’t have any little ones to cart around to soccer practice yet ;)). Any ideas on good organizations that will take used cars?