The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
It’s been a very long time since I’ve been this happy about work. I’m downloading a buttload of source code from various places that I will spend the next little while figuring out how to make it all work together and make something new. I’m excited!!
I have loud music blaring in my iPod and I am bopping to the code. This makes me very, very happy.
I saw this print online. I want it, but I have the feeling that we’re already going to be tight for wall space as it stands :-)
2 1/2 cups seedless watermelon, cut into 1-inch cubes, rind discarded before measuring
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
4 ounces tequila
2 ounces orange flavored liqueur
1 1/2 cups ice
Lime wheel or watermelon wedge, for garnish
Put cut watermelon in a plastic bag and place in freezer for a minimum of 2 hours. (If time does not permit this step, add a few extra ice cubes when blending, the difference is not that significant.)
Stuff all ingredients into a blender and puree until smooth. Garnish rim of glass with a lime wheel or a watermelon wedge and serve immediately.
We’ve gotten oral confirmation that the flat we put an offer on is ours. We still need to sign the contract but our relocation agent is going to look into that for us. All going smoothly, we should be able to move in from August 30th.
This is an email that Katy forwarded to me, that she sent to my mom. I love my mommy :)
Hi hi,
Ben got the parcel you sent to him today. He’s tried one of the biscuits and is currently bouncing of the walls on the sugar fumes alone! :-)
Ben also said (and this is a direct quote) with much sincerity…
‘I love Nana. She sends me really lovely things’
I now have to go and try and pop the corn on the hob and convince the child he can’t just eat popcorn for the rest of the day.
Thank you for making the child’s week :-)
We’ve been to two different Italian restaurants so far and, though they’re not cheap by the standards we’re used to, they’re not bad by Swiss ones and the food was highly satisfactory! I’ve just had veal roast with a tuna sauce that was to die for, and last week I had a beef carpaccio with rocket & parmesan salad that was nummay! Katy had an antipasti platter and some cold poached salmon. Bean had a pizza and some pasta with prawns and pesto. And the ice cream…. Oh, the ice cream :-) so yeah, as lo.g as you don’t dwell too much on the prices, the food is kick ass.
Katy, Bean and I were chauffeured around Lausanne and the its outskirts yesterday in our first foray into finding a permanent house. We saw some really nice (and ‘spensive!) properties and there are two candidates that we’re humming and hawing about. Both are in what could be nicely called the middle of nowhere (one is in a village whose total population is about 600 people) but they’re nice, big, with lots of storage and a garden for the child and the dog. So yeah, options :)
More news to come as we figure out what happens next.
Every morning, I stop at a little bakery just in front of our house to grab a sandwich for lunch. They’re good, cheap (-er than what it would cost at work) and the lady is nice. This morning, she had a sandwich already bagged up, waiting for me.
This made me inordinately happy :)