tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280182177801437472024-03-08T02:45:16.948-08:00This Is Not a Cooking BlogJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-25810387363345746972009-04-11T23:16:00.000-07:002009-04-11T23:18:09.632-07:00I love this city.it's true, i do.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-255344976453814332009-04-09T05:16:00.000-07:002009-04-09T05:18:31.042-07:00ThursdaysI may need to rethink taking the time to watch LOST on Wednesday as it airs. I always feel like crap the next day when I have to get up at 5am. I'll have time for a nap after work and before D&D (assuming I get off work on time), but that won't help me actually get through the work day.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-8311625712220386212009-04-07T22:32:00.000-07:002009-04-07T22:41:04.141-07:00Good TimesI had a pretty amazing weekend this past week, and I'm hoping the next one is as good or better.<br /><br />New D&D game is under way, thanks in large part to my organizational efforts. I managed to find a good group of people who get along and are fun to play with. That means we win D&D before we even start playing.<br /><br />Spent some time getting to know someone better, and had a great time with that as well.<br /><br />Managed to bike downtown and back, not all in one go of course, but I got down there, and I got back, which is something like 4.2 miles each way, so an 8.4 mile round trip. Possibly my record for one day of biking. Getting to work and back is almost trivial now, the hills along the way barely seem to register.<br /><br />Started watching The Wire, did season 1 this past weekend, started on season 2 yesterday. I dunno about "The Best Show on Television", but it's damn good.<br /><br />I'm glad that I'm in the habit of actually doing things on my days off now. There was a time not long ago when I would just sit around and do nothing, and that does no one any good. Nothing like hard work 40+ hours a week to make the weekends something precious.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-81402852516281618962009-03-23T17:21:00.000-07:002009-03-23T17:26:21.556-07:00Biking!I've now ridden my bike to work and back two days in a row, so I think I can say that I'm back into the swing of things. It was even chilly and sprinkling a bit this morning, and I didn't even feel like I was making myself choose the bike over the car, so I was pretty psyched about that.<br /><br />The weather here is definitely getting warmer, and with that apparently comes "wetter", as it seems to have rained every damn day. I don't have much of a problem with this, and it's usually sunny by the afternoon when I get off work.<br /><br />I went to "World-wide Dungeons and Dragons Game Day" this past Saturday. Sounds like something of an annual event, but really it's something that Wizards of the Coast puts on whenever they have a new major product to sell you. Regardless, it was a good opportunity to sit down with some strangers and roll dice. I've never played 4th edition D&D before this point, though I have some of the books. I must say I enjoyed it quite a bit. They've changed things up to give every class lots of toys and interesting things to do, instead of the old "I'm a barbarian. I hit it with my axe. I hit it with my axe again. Oh, my turn again? I hit it with my axe."Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-71924939280459087302009-03-06T09:02:00.000-08:002009-03-06T09:15:27.088-08:00Extreme biking up a volcanoI rode my bike up a volcano yesterday.<br /><br />ok, well most of the way up. The first bit of the trail is a bitch and a half, but things level off a little better further up. And the way down was super easy, of course.<br /><br />Mt. Tabor is an extinct volcano that is within the city limits of Portland. Not only is it in the city limits, but the park around Mt. Tabor is about a mile away from my apartment. I'm not sure why I hadn't explored that area yet, but I finally got around to it yesterday and it was pretty awesome. Lots of windy roads and trails, a neat playground, and good seating at the top for hanging out and watching sunsets and whatnot. Not to mention a pretty amazing view looking downtown. Plus there are some reservoirs on the park land as well, which look cool, but I don't think you'd want to swim in them or anything. Only one of them was full yesterday.<br /><br />I took some pictures, they'll be <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppk_jeff/">up on Flickr</a> shortly.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-67897974693852938482009-02-17T14:22:00.000-08:002009-02-17T14:43:53.621-08:00Going outI'm a fucking social butterfly lately, it's a strange change of pace from back in Iowa. Whereas I'd maybe go out once or twice a week back then (and each of those outings more or less revolved around drinking until bar close), here I find myself going out nearly every night of the week, and the drinking, if any, is quite limited. Just this week for example, I have Tubesday tonight (going to a bar called Tube for vegan ham'n'cheez sammies), LOST on Wednesday, Hopworks on Thursday (a local microbrewery) to hang out with some local PPKers, and then a Christopher Guest movie night on Saturday. Granted there will be some drinking at these events, given the locations, my personal level of drinking has gone way way way down. I'll have maybe two drinks on the more wild nights here, and often none at all if I'm working the next day, though that may come primarily from a fear of a 5am hangover. <br /><br />I credit this new more social life primarily to the fact that I'm not playing World of Warcraft any longer. It's been hard to give it up, and there are still times I'm tempted to reinstall, but I feel happier and more fulfilled by spending time with friends in real life, and not spending all day alone in my apartment.<br /><br />Of course now, between working 40 hour weeks and going out most nights, I almost feel like I don't have <span style="font-style:italic;">enough</span> time at home, for things like cleaning and bill-paying. To be fair though, I do have enough time, I just spend it fucking around on the internet instead of doing useful things.<br /><br />hmm. this is starting to sound mopey. I was going to talk about my lack of a dating-life, but then it would definitely be mopey, so I'll sign off.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-4877063072989792462009-01-13T18:16:00.000-08:002009-01-13T18:19:47.161-08:00meh...I just went across the street and rented the first three discs of season one of Battlestar Galactica instead of going to the library. Various people have been hounding me to watch this forever, and this seemed like a good time to do so.<br /><br />ps: it's pretty good so far, but the first episode is 3.5 hours, so be prepared to sit for a while.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-84121324204702899342009-01-10T22:30:00.000-08:002009-01-10T22:34:25.100-08:00Needs more booksI finished the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide Compendium a few days ago, and I'm kind of stuck with nothing fun to read right now. I finished the one book I got for xmas too. When I left Iowa City, I sold the vast majority of my books, but kept a big box of ones that were favorites of mine, or had sentimental value, but this also means that I've read each of them maybe a billion times each. I may head to Powell's in the near future to bulk up my bookshelves, or I might just head to the library and use that card I got. We'll see. <br /><br />My local branch doesn't have a ton of books on hand, so I'd likely be requesting a bunch from the interlibrary loan, but if I want to read a book enough to bother requesting it, I feel like I might be better off buying it so I can keep it. I think I'll head there after work tomorrow anyway and see what they have on hand for "impulse reading".Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-42605745394110155992008-12-31T22:18:00.000-08:002008-12-31T22:25:54.539-08:00A year is kind of a long time, reallyIt's a new year tonight, and rather than dwell on the fact that I have no one to kiss to ring in the new year, I am going to spend time thinking about what I've done this past year. It has actually been a rather eventful year for me.<br /><br />1) Comprehensive Exams<br />I passed my comprehensive exams, which led to me being able to graduate with my master's degree. Obviously I'm not using it right now, but I consider the experience to have been incredibly worthwhile on a number of levels.<br /><br />2) Traveled around the country<br />I spent about a month in my car traveling around the US meeting awesome people and camping and laying on the beach.<br /><br />3) Moving to Portland<br />I love this city. Within a week of getting here, I had a decent apartment, and now I've found a job before I ran out of money. Mission accomplished!<br /><br />ok I don't know if three bullet points actually constitute "a rather eventful year", but it's certainly been an adventurous and uncertain year. I'm hoping that this next year will be more occupationally and financially stable, less paper-writingly stressful, and contain a good deal more kissing than the last.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-25681461002924399642008-12-20T18:25:00.000-08:002008-12-20T18:33:49.284-08:00New Snippets, because I've been lazy1) Jeff got a job.<br />I'm working at an all-vegan bakery in SE Portland now. It is awesome. I spend most of my time baking, and I'm also learning the ropes of our wholesale outfit so I can manage that part of things.<br /><br />2) Snow sucks.<br />don't get me wrong, it could be a lot worse (cf: Iowa), but it's still snow and cold in a city where people have sworn to me that it never gets below freezing in the winter. Lucky me, I move here in time for the first real winter they've seen in at least 4 years.<br /><br />3) Xbox.<br />I got a job, so I got my xbox back. Thanks mom! I picked up Fable 2, and it's pretty awesome, though I've already beaten the main story line (short game). Luckily, it's got tons of other things to do even after you've beaten it. I'm probably going to pick up Mass Effect again soon, because that game is awesome.<br /><br />4) Portland is awesome for free stuff.<br />I found a kickass coffee table around the corner from my apartment, so I dragged it home and now it's in my living room. I also got a free working 27" TV on craigslist, and I made a TV stand for it with the remains of a disassembled futon frame that I found on the street. My couch is the backseat of someone's car that they had out by the trash, and my 5' tall book case was out on the curb with a 'FREE' sign on it. Basically all of my furniture is castoffs or made with castoffs. I feel pretty good that I've been saving money (important when unemployed!), not contributing to big corporate profits, and saving usable things from the landfill.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-1806903892166660042008-12-05T18:40:00.001-08:002008-12-05T18:44:31.785-08:00Books books booksReviewing books on Goodreads got me thinking about reading, and how I haven't read casually in quite some time. The last book I'd read was Slaughterhouse 5, and I only read that because I was traveling to Minnesota last month, and books are the best thing for an airplane. But I was thinking about books I enjoyed and that I should read more, so I did. I started in on Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the Ultimate compendium, with all 5 books in one), which I got from my aunt and uncle one christmas a number of years ago (and have read 2 or 3 times since). Not only that, but the next day I was reading about how a book called World War Z is going to be made into a movie, and I realized that I own the book but have never read it, so I started in on that too. Well I got pretty absorbed in WWZ, and finished it about half an hour ago. It's basically a history book from the future, after a zombie plague sweeps the world, in the format of interviews with survivors. Very interesting, and quite moving at times, despite being a work of fiction. I decided to keep Hitchhiker as a sort of "bed-time" book, to read a chapter or two of every night before I go to bed, but maybe I'll read more now that I've already devoured WWZ.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-19117258961075118982008-12-04T00:22:00.001-08:002008-12-04T00:31:25.392-08:00Good ReadsThere are a lot of website around nowadays that are trying to capitalize on the semi-recent popularity of "social networking" sites, like facebook and myspace, by adding a new spin to the base idea. <br /><br />One of these sites is <a href="http://www.goodreads.com">Goodreads</a>, where you create a profile for yourself, and then browse or search through their vast database of books and rate or review the ones you've read, mark ones you haven't but want to read, and tag the ones you're currently reading. And of course, as a social networking site, you can keep a friends list, and stay up to date on what your friends thought of books they've read, which ones they're reading now, and which they want (maybe so you can buy them a birthday present). <br /><br />The site's database is quite extensive. In addition to popular fiction and sci-fi books, I was able to find quite a few academic books, such as Kager's Optimality Theory. If you do happen to have read a book that isn't in the database already, you're in luck, because the database itself is editable by users, and the interface for adding a new book looks to be quite simple to use.<br /><br />If you're even a little bit of a reader, rating books (on a 5-star scale) can be a fun way to while away a lazy afternoon, as you reminisce about what you liked (or didn't like) about books you may have read long ago. And don't feel any pressure to add *all* the books on your bookshelf, or all the books you've ever read. Just rate a few whenever you think of them, and you'll probably have quite a list of books before you know it.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-36594038636718370352008-11-18T21:17:00.000-08:002008-11-18T21:19:08.085-08:00Hot SauceIt's amazing how much better a boring meal can be made by the liberal application of hot sauce. Cholula, I love you baby. Don't ever change.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hotnbottled.com/images/1104.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.hotnbottled.com/images/1104.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-11099955533287658112008-11-13T00:57:00.000-08:002008-11-13T01:02:56.503-08:00Chipotle pasta sauceSounds maybe a bit weird, but try it out, I think you'll like it. This recipe comes from a co-worker of an ex-girlfriend, and it originally called for chicken, but f that.<br /><br />start with some soy curls. A handful or two? probably two. Rehydrate them in some kind of liquid. I use water with some soy sauce mixed in. While they're hydrating, make the sauce.<br /><br />2-3 cloves garlic<br />3 chipotle peppers (the canned kind in adobo sauce)<br />a couple spoonfuls of the adobo sauce<br />1/4-1/3 cup of white wine (I usually use a cheap chardonnay)<br />same amount of extra virgin olive oil<br /><br />whiz all this together really good in a food processor of some sort. Then add some green onion that's been chopped up kind of finely.<br /><br />once the soy curls are hydrated, squeeze them out a bit and put them in a container, and then pour the sauce over and stir and let them marinate for a little bit. This part can be skipped if you're hungry.<br /><br />Boil pasta, sautee soy curls with all the sauce while the pasta is cooking, drain pasta and toss it all together in the end. I like to put nooch on this too, but that's totally optional.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-35223299617806005122008-11-09T00:46:00.000-08:002008-11-09T00:50:01.736-08:00Thanksgiving test runJess had some people over tonight to test her thanksgiving recipes on before she presents them to people at a talk next week about vegan thanksgivings. She made a pretty awesome pecan pie (recipe courtesy of Toddx on the PPK), and a sweet potato casserole. Plus she baked some awesome tomato-rosemary scones and mocha chip muffins from Isa's upcoming brunch book. Oh yeah and roasted potatoes factored in there somehow too. Tons of food, and it was all delicious...thanks Jess!Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-34811152803422127962008-11-07T16:54:00.000-08:002008-11-07T17:04:05.139-08:00Favorite ThingsMy friends are posting lists of their favorite things on their blogs, and in the interests of killing time, I'm going to do so as well.<br /><br />1. Avocados<br />Avocados are what got me off of cheese when I first went vegan. They're creamy and fatty and they've got kind of an almost-cheesy flavor. I probably eat too many avocados now, but they're finally back out of season so I'll be less likely to get them. Here's a few ways I like to eat avocados:<br /> sliced, on toast<br /> cubed, tossed with pasta and olive oil and nooch<br /> with a spoon<br /> sliced up, wrapped in a tortilla<br /> mashed with some minced garlic and nooch, spread on toast<br />What do you like to do with avocados?<br /><br />2. Video Games<br />Video games have always been a major recreation of mine, starting back in the day with the Atari 2600. I don't even remember how or why we got it, I was so young, but I remember playing the game with the tanks (Tank Battle?), and hangman on it. More recently, I have an Xbox 360, but it's at my parents' house, and mom won't ship it back to me until I get a job. So mostly I've been playing World of Warcraft. I got Fallout 3 recently as well, and that's a pretty cool game too.<br /><br />3. Really hot showers<br />Pet peeve: luke warm showers. I want my shower water to be hot.<br /><br />4. Riding my bike<br />Portland is awesome for this. There's a bike repair collective literally across the street from my apartment, for all my repair needs. Lots of grocery and restaurant options within easy biking distance. Riding my bike makes me feel more connected with my neighborhood. I can better see/hear/smell whats going on around me than if I were in a car.<br /><br />5. Hoodies<br />Cozy, comfy, and secure. Zip hoodies preferred, but pullover ones are ok in a pinch. I hate the way the zippers get weird after you've had it for a while though, does anyone know of a way to fix that?Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-33941014880421146022008-10-24T13:51:00.000-07:002008-10-24T13:54:58.045-07:00HeatTurns out the gas going to the pilot light in my furnace was turned off, which is good because it means my apartment wasn't slowly filling with gas, but bad because I haven't had heat. However, my landlord came over today and figured out the problem in short order, and now I have delicious hot air pumping in. <br /><br />In sadder news, my grandfather passed away this morning. The last few years have been difficult, watching his mental and physical health decline, but he was a good man, and he will be missed.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-21719604897194691422008-10-23T20:52:00.000-07:002008-10-23T20:58:17.355-07:00Nhut Quang...Vegan Vietnamese food in a box.The box being their sparsely decorated restaurant. The food however, was pretty darn good, and everything on the menu is vegan which was a surprise to me. I went with some of the usual crew, plus Dazee, who is in town for a bit for a law conference. (I may have talked about Dazee while I was in Louisiana, he's Kittee's husband.)<br /><br />Anyway, I had number 28, which was a bowl with noodles and veggies and fried gluten, and it was pretty delish. I had to take the bus to get there, which was a bit of a pain waiting for transfers, but I'd definitely go again. I'll have to try the egg rolls next time I go...and bring a book for the wait between buses.<br /><br />In other news, it's getting colder here, and my windows are quite drafty, so I've taken the initiative and gotten plastic sheeting to put up over my windows. I finished installing them today, and it seems marginally warmer in here, but I'm sure it'll help a lot with gas bills once I actually figure out how to turn my heat on. In the mean time, I'm cooking and baking and taking hot showers, which is keeping me reasonably warm. That makes it sound like it's 20 below, but it's really only gotten down to about 40. But 40 degrees indoors sure feels pretty damn cold.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-5125657817015777252008-10-19T11:20:00.000-07:002008-10-19T11:22:16.252-07:00I just fell back onto the face of the planet!I was totally abducted by aliens and that's why I haven't posted on my blog. I just got back, it was pretty cool. We cruised up and down the solar system and ate vegan hot dogs.<br /><br />Anyway, too much has been going on to catch up here, but I'm settled in Portland, I'm having fun, and I still don't have a job, so there's the important parts.<br /><br />Now I'm off to an all-vegan brunch at my friend's house!Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-90776341372390380842008-09-03T10:30:00.000-07:002008-09-03T10:32:26.303-07:00"Interesting" trip statisticsSince I left Iowa City on July 31st:<br /><br />Total miles driven: 5632.3<br />overall average speed: 52.0<br />moving average speed: 59.8<br />Travel time: over 100 hours, my gps blanked out after 99:99Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-87738525058049988282008-08-31T18:08:00.000-07:002008-08-31T18:15:35.442-07:00The land of soymilk and agave nectarWell, I'm here. which means my travels are over, at least for a while. I now find myself faced with the daunting task of finding a place to live and some kind of job to help pay the bills while I spend my free time eating delicious vegan food and completing phd program applications.<br /><br />It seems to be pretty standard here to live with roommates, and it certainly seems like it would be both cheaper, and more socializing to do so. However, I've only lived with roommates for one year ever, and that was an experience I'm not really super keen to repeat. I'm quite a solitary person and I don't think I'd like sharing space with people. I don't even have people over hardly ever. My last apartment I was at, where I lived for two years, only saw not-me people come over maybe three or four times ever (those of you who were there, you can feel blessed).<br /><br />So with that in mind, I've begun putting out feelers to set up showings for a number of decent-looking (and reasonably affordable) one-bedroom apartments in the SE Hawthorne neighborhood. I've also sent out a few emails to some random people looking for roommates, on the off-chance that I can find some people as cool as KT's roommates.<br /><br />I feel that a job can wait until after I've already found a place to live, though I'm hoping that apartment applications won't look too harshly on "self-employed" as my source of income.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-67680353586666415182008-08-30T23:56:00.000-07:002008-08-31T00:02:39.443-07:00I am almost in portlandI'm about 3 hours away. I was originally going to try to make it into town for brunch at sweet pea, but I stayed up too late doing laundry. so instead I'm shooting for getting into town around noon to help out with the <a href="http://joshivore.blogspot.com/2008/08/ringling-beats-baby-elephants-trial.html">leafleting at the circus</a>.<br />After that I'm probably going to spend time setting up a PO box, local bank account, and then chill at the library trawling through job and apartment listings.<br /><br />Thusly, I send the call out to any pdxers reading this. If you know of a reasonably priced apartment in a convenient neighborhood, or if you know some cool people looking for a roommate, let me know.<br /><br />Also, if you want to hang out, call me. I'm sure I could use some drinks after stressing out about jobs/apartments. If you don't have my number, email me at j.michael.press@gmail.com.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-16975238583761487612008-08-28T06:57:00.000-07:002008-08-28T06:59:12.288-07:00Some photos from New OrleansIf you haven't seen them yet, I encourage you to go check out the photos I took at Kenny Hill Sculptural Garden near New Orleans LA. There is some really awesome, crazy stuff there. You can click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppk_jeff/sets/72157606993410644/">this link</a> to go to the set that has those photos.<br /><br />Which reminds me, I recently organized all my trip pictures so that they are grouped together by general location. You can find these folders along the right-hand edge of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppk_jeff/">my photostream</a>.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-73705106707585386322008-08-25T15:21:00.000-07:002008-08-25T15:25:16.168-07:00So here it isAfter I'm done here in New Orleans, I'm abandoning the rest of my plan and just heading for Portland. The plan was never super-solid in the first place, and upon further contemplation, I'm not really looking forward to spending time in the Southwest, it just doesn't seem very interesting to me. I've had a great time traveling so far, and I've still got a ways to go, but I want to take a more direct route now. I'm getting tired of life on the road, and I think I'm ready to settle down somewhere (at least for a little while).Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028018217780143747.post-49858750045677623882008-08-24T20:08:00.000-07:002008-08-24T20:12:22.427-07:00A dog was humping my leg todayI'm at Kittee's place, in New Orleans Louisiana! Her dog Vee is pretty crazy, but he's gotten used to me now, so that's nice. now if he would just stop humping my leg. Kittee's husband Dazee is pretty awesome too. We made an excellent pizza with mushrooms, seitan, olive salad, and teese (fake cheese).<br /><br />Tomorrow, depending on the weather, we've got a lot of things to do. Lots of pictures to follow.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042371227752316300noreply@blogger.com2