Jan 30 - the taste test

I'll start at the end of the day ... we had tuna for dinner. Lo always wants hers cooked but she'd had an appetizer sized piece of tuna with Sandy when they were shopping that wasn't, so she was willing to try seared. I cooked a piece to pink and she had that side-by-side with a seared piece and she concluded no question, seared is better.

We win 'em over one at a time ... next up, sushi ?

Ha. Anyway, the tuna was accompanied by sauteed zucchini and brown rice, three types of scotch and one red wine ... I'll have to cut back on the zucchini tonight :).

Jason and I had a busy day, as did Sandy and Lo. First up, we changed his brake pads. For $39 that's the cheapest brake job that he'll ever have ! We only did the front -- the rears are not likely very worn and they're drums+shoes anyway.

We then had a full-scale breakfast, complementing the earlier cereal. Sandy and Lo tried the "baconator" -- actually a ceramic dish shaped like a vertical flower pot with a handle and saucer attached to the bottom. The bacon is hung over the sides of the pot and the pot has a small hole in the bottom to drain into the saucer. It's cooked in the microwave -- excellent ! I had a bacon sandwich; the three of them had bacon and scrambled eggs. Three of us, not Sandy, had my "seedy" bread. That turned out to be our lunch too.

Next up, Jason and I packed our bikes onto the back of the X5 and drove to Ormond Beach, doing the tail end of my northern route through Tomoka Park and back along the ocean. Jason kept up well but by the end his hamstring was really tight. He massaged it later and applied some heat ... all was well.

Judy, next door, had been heading out to a physio appointment and she and Jason compared scars. Apparently she has the "new technology" knee where Jason has the old model. Old, that is, compared to Judy's, but the latest thing when he had it done. I guess that it makes sense that this kind of technology changes as well, but I'd never thought about it before.

That, but not in correct order, comprised our day.

Today we might go boating. It depends on what the forecast looks like.

Onward !