Food and Mail
Nov. 14th, 2005 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjToday's sensory postcard: I'm walking out to the parking lot after work, watching the full moon rise out of the pink and purple haze over the Oakland hills, and suddenly the breeze shifts so it's coming from the Scharfenberger factory. Mmmmmm.
Saturday was Mists Investiture. I'm coming to the conclusion that SCA feasts are for the young and hearty of appetite.It was all delicious (well, ok, except for one dish that needed less than a tenth of the salt it included) but there was Too Much. Even having skipped lunch and keeping to a single serving of each dish (well, ok, except for the eggs in coats, because it was the first dish and I was starving from having skipped lunch; and except for the cherry soup because it was sooooo good, but the servings were small), by the time the last dinner course was over I was painfully full and was incapable of even tasting any of the desserts.
I can understand the attraction of putting on elaborate multi-course banquets (been there, done that) but I've reached a point in my life when I want to be a gourmand, not a glutton. I guess I'll have to work on that willpower thing. (But it all looks so good!)
Sunday was for shopping (boring stuff), going to the movies (see my mini-review of Pride and Prejudice in Callistotoni's comments section), and setting up the new laptop.
The setup was largely uneventful, despite dealing with the new version of Apple's OS (10.4) but due to some indeciperable settings problems I was having in Eudora I decided to switch over to the Macintosh native mail program. So I'm having the fun of rebuilding address books, filters, files-n-folders and getting used to a new interface. (But at least it talks to all my e-mail sources in both directions.)
Saturday was Mists Investiture. I'm coming to the conclusion that SCA feasts are for the young and hearty of appetite.
I can understand the attraction of putting on elaborate multi-course banquets (been there, done that) but I've reached a point in my life when I want to be a gourmand, not a glutton. I guess I'll have to work on that willpower thing. (But it all looks so good!)
Sunday was for shopping (boring stuff), going to the movies (see my mini-review of Pride and Prejudice in Callistotoni's comments section), and setting up the new laptop.
The setup was largely uneventful, despite dealing with the new version of Apple's OS (10.4) but due to some indeciperable settings problems I was having in Eudora I decided to switch over to the Macintosh native mail program. So I'm having the fun of rebuilding address books, filters, files-n-folders and getting used to a new interface. (But at least it talks to all my e-mail sources in both directions.)
