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My life is currently being covered in other blogs. Here’s a wrap up of my last few weeks:

We have booked a trip to Cancun.

We attended the local DFL caucus.

We finished up the Sopranos (see the comments).

I deleted my Myspace account.

Courtney and I celebrated our anniversary in January. We made reservations at the Oceanaire.  We were hoping for a romantic, quiet evening with good seafood. We did get good seafood, but that was about it. Our reservations were for 9:00pm which is late for us these days. Well, 9:00pm came and went and we were still not seated. We were seated around 9:45pm. To be honest, we were too tired to really enjoy the food. Oceanaire was swamped with people. It was loud and cramped. But, the food was good. Did I mention that fact yet? Yeah, it was good.

I’ve been asked to demo some web technologies for a MCAD class in April. It sort of popped out of the blue. The ever connected Emily hooked me up with the opportunity. It’s been awhile since I’ve spoken in front of people. When I was a teenager I used to help my parents teach their respective training courses. But this is the first time I’ll be older than my audience so I’m a bit intimidated. At the very least I hope to have fun with it.

Have you seen the Macbook Air commercial? Yeah, I’m a sucker for the tune in it too.  I swear Apple ads are my primary source for new music these days.

Courtney and I spent a fantastic evening with friends at Mt. Fuji Saturday. It’s the first hibachi type restuarant I’ve been to. Loving asian food I’m surprised I hadn’t gone earlier. The food was fantastic and the presentation was entertaining. Chefs at a hibachi gril spin and play with their utensils in ways that typically I would get in trouble for. I was completely blown away by the quality of food. The fried rice was actually fried! I assume it somehow magically browned in the white take-home containers we get from other fast-food asian eateries. I did learn one secret that night. Enough butter on anything will make it superb. A cup of butter will work on everything from eggs to lobster.

Incidently, the truck still stinks of the leftovers even after being aired out for 2 days.

I’m taking a sushi cooking class tonight. Cooking is probably the wrong word for it. More like “preparing” sushi, I gather. I cautiously starting eating sushi again after the incident earlier this year. As long as I stay away from the yellow tail I seem to be fine.

I remember the first time I ever watched someone eat sushi. It was my second tech job and I was sitting in the lunch room with my new boss. Steve came in with what I know now is a take-out platter of sushi from Lund’s. I remember thinking how swank and hip it was to be working at a dotcom eating sushi. I hoped one day to be that trendy.

Saturday Courtney and I stopped in at Applebee’s for lunch. We walked in the door at 11:03 am and were patrons in the door. I order by typical chicken fingers basket and Courtney had the steak salad. As I was finishing my meal I noticed that one of my french fries had been overcooked. But as I looked at the burnt piece of potato I slowly realized that it had a head and legs on it. There was a catapillar in my food. I promptly stopped eating and informed our server that I wasn’t angry but very disgusted by the critter. Applebee’s paid for our insect-infested lunch and gave us a $10 gift certificate. I realized they were probably trying to usher us out as quickly as possible so we wouldn’t start hootin’ and hollerin’ about the situation.

I can’t get enough of Hey Ya by Outkast.

Last Saturday I went to Menard’s 3 times and Buffalo Wild Wings twice.

Last night I went out to the greatest place on earth, Murray’s in downtown Minneapolis. It’s an upscale dining establishment. Luckily I didn’t have to pay.
I pulled up my poor little Honda to the front door where I was kindly greeted by the valet. Once inside it was straight out of a movie with hundreds of people waiting to serve you. I sat with my group in the “lobby” a.k.a. bar for a minute or two before being seated. Once seated we all perused the menu which was 75% steak, 25% other. So for someone of my tastes I thought I was out of luck. I did manage to find the 1 chicken item on the menu, simply titled “Chicken Breast.” We all sat and talked for a couple of hours. It was a good time.

Have I mentioned before that I bought a Vaio? Yeah, one of those really tiny computers. I absolutely love it. I got the base model, 505ve, which is a Celeron 333, 64 megs of ram, 6.4 gig hard drive. It does the job and looks cool while doing it.