Stuck under the pressure cooker of the week it ended with more fun. I stopped for a quick drink at the 508. I quite enjoyed the selection of brews and they have a fantastic happy hour, and am going to explore the place again next week. Meanwhile as I was wrapping up I notice I had missed four calls, mostly because I had the volume down on my phone after being silenced from being meetings all day. Never a good sign. Apparently the credit card company was searching for us to let us know about fraud on our card.
Well, after I called back they were concerned about a couple of charges from Amazon and Dunn Brothers and I wonder what the hell would be causing their concern? These are are regular charges, anyway, why piss on the guy that is just trying to help you, right. Anyway, that was a buzz kill and got to ride the local bus all the way home, which just takes so long in evening because everyone it seems has been new on the routes so they are unfamiliar as to where they are going, so they stand half on the bus and half off asking questions about if it goes by "You know, those apartments with the brown roof? Does it go that way?" Really , these are the questions that are being asked while the bus sits with its door open and missing the lights.
Got home and neither of us wanted to make dinner. We talked ourselves into going out for dinner at Woody's Grill. We split an appertizer of steak bits with green beans and entree sized pizza. Woody's grill has taken a step back recently and the pizza there is a good example. They are using cheaper ingredients it seems on the pizza. We were disappointed at how average their food has become.
Saturday, Kathy went to St Paul farmers market to pick some eggs and meat for the house. Bar Five is still out of the zesty sausage. We gathered our wits and met with friends for a surprise party at the Chatterbox in Linden Hills. They have a decent bar menu. We skipped eating there, but friends did try their food and it appeared to a mix amount of enthusiasm for the choices. Yes we celebrated Ne Ne moving around the sun another year. It was nice, but we could not stay long. We had to head to St Paul for a family event.
We went to house of my sister in law, where we hung out the rest of the day. We watch a little football, made some shrimp on the grill and played a few games. It was a nice time. More of this it appears tomorrow.
We had to head home to feed the sourdough monster. We got a starter for sourdough bread. You need to feed it weekly, so we did this for the first time with very little confidence. I think we will try to bake this on Monday. Meanwhile, I have a big chunk of salmon in a brine overnight. I plan on smoking the fish tomorrow. It should be a good time. The brine I used was a mixture of kosher salt, brown sugar, white wine, Worcestershire and a little garlic mixed in filtered water. I plan on taking this out of the brine after about 12 hours and getting the grill going. Need to rest up.
Music driven writing provided by the Fleet Foxes.
