Friday, December 20, 2002
Worked at home today on Cindy's changes for the graduation section. Lunch at River Side Seafood Restaurant: won ton soup ($5.95)—not bad. Dinner at home with Patrick: basil apple sausage with penne in tomato sauce. Lodestar Quarterly Issue 4 goes live. Watched Lilo and Stitch on DVD. When it finished, Patrick said, "That wasn't as good as I thought it would be." I said, "Formulaic." But what I thought was most annoying was that when we first put the DVD in we by default were shown what must have been over 10 minutes of previews for forthcoming Disney DVD titles. By the time we'd watched the first 5 previews, I said aloud, "Start the fucking show already" and skipped to the main menu and selected Play. Thanks, Disney, for putting me in a bad mood just before watching your work of art. I'll never buy a Disney DVD, just based on this one frustrating experience. Tina responded to my question "If we have a pumpkin from Halloween that looks okay on the outside, it is still good for cooking now in December?" She said, "Hi! Pumpkin... if you have not cut it open (exposed the inside to O2), then it's fine to eat. You just cut it open and have it (or wedges are fine and easy to remove the meat from), and roast it in the oven. I use a little butter or oil (veg, not olive). Once cool, you scoop out the flesh, puree it and you have fresh pumpkin puree. MMmmmm. I want some. XOXOX T."