beef

Not the best way to eat food but as a once a year type of thing, it brings some excitement and good eats. We had a few friends over for NYE – Chard, Ang, Axel, Anya, Lucas, and Delfel. Fixings for the evening were ribs, deep fried cod, asian slaw, and some latkes. Everything went off pretty smoothly other than the fryer tripping a few circuits. The night saw some drinking and later singing/dancing contests to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” ala JT and Adam Samberg.

Since I had borrowed the fryer from Chard, I figured I’d have to get one more use out of it. Empanadas sounded delicious. I made up a batch of beef picadillo for the savory and also made a batch of chocolate chip – banana ones as the sweet. Very delicious!

Otto meets Santa.

Wait...why...what's going on!?

Wheee. otto continues to get older and they things he can do are even more amazing these days! He recently tried out his new bouncy chair. he doesn;t quite have he hang of it yet, although he can push his feet on the floor and go around in circles for a little while.

We went down to Portland over the weekend to see Rossi and Shenais & Spenser and Amy who were in town for the weekend. Otto and Quara got acquainted for the first time. It’s amazing the difference 6 weeks makes at this stage.

And of course, I’ve got to take the obligatory naked baby shots in order to have something to hold over him when he gets older.

1/29 – Orgone – Nectar

2/12 – Super Furry Animals – Neumo’s

3/22 – Dengue Fever – Neumo’s

3/26 – Vampire Weekend – Neumo’s

4/18 – blitzen trapper/fleet foxes – Neumo’s

5/2 – Tim and Eric’s Awesome Tour – Neumo’s

7/12-13 – SupPop20 – Marymoor Park

7/13 – King Khan and the Shrines – Tractor Tavern

7/28 – sharon jones and the dap kings – wooodland park zoo

9/1 – Bumbershoot – Seattle Center

10/3 – Jamie Lidell – Showbox

10/4 – Santogold – Showbox SODO

10/11 – Tokyo Police Club/Mt St Helens Vietnam Band – Nuemo’s

Twinkie, Deconstructed – Steve Ettlinger

All Tomorrow’s Party – William Gibson

Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4) – Jack Campbell

The Prefect – Allistair Reynolds

Zoe’s Tale – John Scalzi

Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi

Anathem – Neal Stephenson

Saturn’s Children – Charlie Stross

My Mercedes is Not For Sale – Jeroen Van Bergeijk

The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal – Jonathan Mooney

Black Mischief – Evelyn Waugh