Steak and Shrimp

Lego Contraption 1

Suzanne sent me a Klutz book of Lego contraptions that came with a bunch of gears and other bits & bobs.

Today I made the Rubber Band Racer (with optional ratchet.)



Here it goes:



I think Audrey is a bit concerned.

Temps in Buffalo Grove

Curtis meant to bring along a little temperature data recorder with him on our trip to Buffalo Grove this week. I thought it would have been interesting to see but he forgot... so I dug some data up from Weather Underground.



We arrived late Monday night (around midnight) to enjoy the peak temperatures of the week. Never mind that it was snowing and we really had no idea where we were going except for some directions that we couldn't exactly follow 100% because of construction and detours.

Tuesday night we were brave enough to scrape off the car and venture out for dinner. Wednesday night it was getting colder still so we chickened out and ate at the hotel.

Thursday morning (see the lowest dip in the little red line above) we went out in the -4 degree temps to load up and scrape off the car again. We were out there for maybe 2-3 minutes but it felt like 20. Just walking forward with any exposed skin at -4 creates enough wind chill to make you feel numb.

101 Cookbooks: exploring cookbooks, one recipe at a time

Just wanted to share a nice blog/journal I came across this weekend:




101 Cookbooks is very nicely composed, sampling from all sorts of things and steering toward healthy foods. Many of the recipes appear basic and easily achievable (cooking doesn't have to be "hard".)

The photographs are top-notch and make me hungry.

(looks like the herbivores should be pretty happy with it as well)

Proper Clock

Jeff's Pastry of the Day

Not sure what it was but it went pretty quick.

Edit: Jeff said this one wasn't very good.

Digital Clocks in the Classroom

How will we explain "clockwise" when all the analog ones are gone?

Jeff's Donut

And coffee.

Jeff's Cupcake

Looks yummy.

Still Snowing

But that doesn't phase anyone here.

Buffalo Grove

Yes it was 4 after midnight local time. But we finally made it to the
hotel parking lot. That's Jeff and Curtis in the snow drift.