At thirty-six, like most professional athletes, Andre Agassi is, by the standards of his occupation, an old man. I don’t know how many of you are following the US Open in tennis this week. Probably not many. But most of you do read science fiction, and that’s actually what I’m thinking about while I’m on the topic of Andre Agassi. The US Open is Agassi’s swan song. He’s supposed to be retiring gracefully this year, having made the cut and now taking, as it were, a last jog around the…
a good day
Food photography is not my strength, but I made a flourless chocolate cake today (two, actually), and it may have been the most intense chocolate experience of my life. My god. o.o And so you get a picture of my cake, but I’ll be nice enough to put it (and the recipe) behind the 18 oz bittersweet chocolate 1 c butter 1/2 c water 3/4c sugar 1/4 tsp salt 6 eggs Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Thoroughly grease a 10 inch springform pan. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.…
thinks to do today
– finish up HoC edits & post research questions here – laundry – change the kitty litter :p – bake a cake or two – bake bread – walk dog – grin like goddamned idiot over the couple pages of roughs ardian sent me for chance 2 I didn’t swim this morning. I did, however, walk all over hell and breakfast trying to find bittersweet chocolate in Cobh and completely failed. My sister’s birthday cake will have to be semi-sweet chocolate instead of bittersweet. Somehow I think she’ll survive. :)…
WOOT!
Against all expectation, the leisure centre pool is open in the *mornings*! 7:30-9am on MWF. I’m going to arrange for a cab to pick me up at 7am MWF so I have no excuse to not go, and WOOT! I’m all excited! Must find all my swim stuff and get it together! *runs around, runs around*! They’ve got evening swimming as well, but I’d rather swim in the mornings. My thought for the moment is to swim 3x a week through September and then maybe start weights on alternate days…
weigh-in [ww lock]
Despite Tuesday’s encouraging weigh-in, I’m only down 1.5 pounds today, the official weigh-in day. This isn’t really discouraging, except it would’ve been more fun to put 157 into the weight tracker instead of 158. Still, y’know, if I could manage a pound a week for the rest of the year, gosh, that’d put me at my weight goal. Well, almost, I guess there’s not quite enough weeks left in the year to manage it entirely. Close enough. The leisure centre (gym) here has opened, so when Ted goes to work…