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Busy weekend
Wow, this past weekend was full! I was planning to write recaps of our July 21 and 28 game sessions, but that didn't happen because . . .
Friday night, we had a visit from Martin K., a particle physicist friend from my days in graduate studies. He operates out of North Carolina, but he was in Montréal for a short time. We had a lovely evening! We snacked on raw-milk cheeses with homemade blackcurrant jam on baguette (try it!), and then Bonnie made pad Thai, I made many caipirinhas, and we caught up on old times.
Early Saturday evening, Bonnie and I went out with Jim Cambias, his wife Diane, and their daughter Emily. They were in town for Worldcon. We headed down to la Maison Kam Fung – in Chinatown – and grabbed a tasty meal that involved dumplings, noodles, shrimp, duck, and lots of other goodies. Afterward, Emily convinced us to hit a small Chinese bakery to get sesame seed balls for dessert. (Bonnie grabbed a few extras and some red bean buns for Sunday's breakfast.)
On returning home, we had our second engagement of the day. E., D., and their daughter Z. came over to celebrate my birthday – something I'd put off until after my UK trip. I asked for cupcakes rather than a big cake, and Bonnie obliged by baking two varieties I'd picked out: gingerbread with lemon icing and big chunks of ginger, and carrot and cardamom frosted with mascarpone. Yum! We had those with a sweet Coteaux du Layon (Moulin Touchais 1990). Later, we chatted over some mojitos I tossed together.
And on Sunday, we met up with Lisa Steele, her husban Allen, and their daughter Barbara, who were also here for Worldcon. We used the afternoon to visit l'Insectarium de Montréal and le Jardin botanique de Montréal. It was nice to catch up! I only wish the weather had been a bit nicer . . . we had rain menacing the whole time. Nevertheless, Bonnie and I had second thoughts about simply heading home, so we walked around despite the clouds. The pedometer that E. & D. had given me for my birthday the previous day said we got 12,000 steps in. (I'll just not mention that we found out that they serve cocktails and tapas out there!)
That evening, Bonnie and I headed home and had a cooling Lillet. Then we dined on tasty rogan josh that Bonnie had made the day before . . . we had planned to serve it to guests, but it turned out that nobody's plans worked with dinner at our place, so we just had to make do. Yum! Later, we watched Blindness, which is certainly an unusual movie, but one that makes you think.
Of course, all that chatting and feasting and walking came on the heels of my UK trip, so I've yet to recover my energies. I'm trying to take it easy this week. We'll see how that goes. With my coworkers at GenCon, I might just be able to get away with it!
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That's too bad! I know several people who have that, though. I'm one of those lucky stiffs who lacks any of the common genes for tasting food items as non-food items. I'm extremely sensitive to TCA, but that's actually useful.
My son, who has inherited his father's fondness for south Asian food, requested it for dinner when he turned six a few months back.
So there's an upside to your genes, too!