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eftychia at 02:06pm on 2004-08-07Migraine has diminished. Mild pain and threat of dizziness, but at the moment I'm feeling functional. Thankful for this unseasonable weather. (This is the hot sticky season, but for the past couple of nights we've had an autumnal time warp, five Kelvins below normal temperatures and low humitidy. Certain rooms of my house still get warm, but nothing like it was up until a couple of days ago.) But the sound of someone attempting to grind a car up for mulch a few minutes after I woke was still a tad uncomfortable. (What sort of plant do you put metal mulch around?) I looked out the window and it turned out to be a new pickup-truck-shaped musical instrument, with the bed as the sounding board, the area under the truck as the resonating cavity, and the vibration source being an electric drill applied to a boat-trailer that was lying across the bed. I should have gone out and offered to tune the damned thing, but it only had about a two note range anyhow. Either the fellow playing it wasn't very good or it was some sort of ultra-modern achronal piece. I didn't get a look at the score.
Plan for the day: pull myself together, pull equipment together, pull garb together, visit Mom, go to the wedding HCB is playing from there. Backup plan if that fails: go straight to the gig, and visit Mom tomorrow.
There was something else I wanted to mention when I woke up, but now I can't remember it. But I do remember something I meant to mention yesterday: kumquats dipped in chocolate don't work too well, because the exPLoSIve burst of tartness so completely overwhelms even a dark chocolate dip that the chocolate flavour get completely lost. It's really quite impressive -- in the absence of something like the chocolate to compare it to, it's easy to sort of re-calibrate one's mouth so the kumquat burst is just "Wow, intense," but realizing that it doesn't just overpower the chocolate but completely obliterates the chocolate, demonstrates just how powerful and sudden that effect really is.
It sucks that kumquats are so expensive (these were a gift) and the season is so short. I wonder whether anybody makes kumquat marmalade. And isn't "kumquat" a fun word to say?
Good morning!
"Kumquat" is an intensely fun word to say, as are "tungsten" and "spackle." I like to slice kumquats up really thin and mix them in with a spinach salad, personally. Put a balsamic-vinegar-and-garlic-olive-oil dressing on that, and it'd be leagues beyond ambrosial. Interestingly enough, the kumquat pieces don't nuke the taste of the spinach. (What were you doing mixing something orange-flavoured with chocolate anyway? Bleah! Whoops, am I going to get flamed for that? Try raspberry; it's much better.)
See you in a few days -- I am definitely bringing cookies, and the prezzies I e-mailed about (working the logistics on the cookies now). Anyway, speaking of "cookies," I undershopped this week, figuring I'd have left nowish, and I'm not leaving for Chatham until Monday, and not getting to Pennsic until Tuesday sometime. :)
Re: Good morning!
And Raspberry is delightful as well.
Both best with Dark Chocolate!
kumquats and chocolate sauce
To Interrobang, not exclusively:
The salad idea sounds good, since I keep spinach around for the crickets and mealworms and my sandwiches. I like orange and chocolate together. And raspberry and chocolate. And strawberry and chocolate. If I'm going that way.
I'll bring the brownie cookies you can eat, and if you could, please send me a list of your allergies to inform my packing. I still have to sew, but felt too crappy to do it today. I'm aiming for arrival Thursday, but maybe Friday, depending on how much packing help I get.
I like the words "carp" and "newt" a lot, but the 2-syllable ones are pretty cool, too.
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Apparently so.
I also found a good half-dozen recipes for making it at home.
Kumquats
I wish I was going to Pennsic... maybe next year.
Have Fun!!
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