This afternoon’s kitchen victory: curing bacon with Amy and Dave and Meghan.

Ritz & Escoffier was fascinating, a little chatty and gossipy but perhaps that’s appropriate for the subject matter. I wasn’t aware how much those two shaped the modern hotel and restaurant businesses.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: a nice pasta salad with cherry tomatoes, skillet-blasted kale, olives, salami, and a lemon vinaigrette.

Current earworm: “A View to a Kill” by Duran Duran.

Lovely day outside. 🌤

Niece and nephew are spending the night while my brother and sister-in-law see Eddie Izzard.

Finished sleeving up the battlebox.

A lot of discussion of rebar around the office this week.

Fixed some layout stuff I didn’t like, and trimmed a bunch of obsolete crap out of the CSS.

Now starting Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef & the Rise of the Leisure Class by Luke Barr.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: deviled chicken thighs. Followed by this afternoon’s partial victory: the blueberry/raspberry/tayberry pie didn’t hold together very well (but still super-tasty).

The Raven Tower was a fascinating little puzzle-box of betrayal, revenge, and metaphysics. Highly recommended.

Went to Zulu’s with the dude yesterday to play Magic.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: spaghetti alla puttanesca.

Watched fireworks with the family at Mom’s.