Well, lets see now. Today was not as productive as yesterday. I brought my bike to the bike shop for a 30 day tune-up and to have the clipless pedals installed. I can pick it up tomorrow. A lady in the store seemed to be eyeing my bike. I made the stirfry for the week, beef and bok choy with mushrooms and onions, and added a couple of slices of fried chinese sausage on top. I marinated the beef in Pilsner beer, soy sauce, thai hot sauce, sesame seed oil, corn starch, crushed sea salt and ground pepper. I added quite a bit of sugar to the sauce to counterbalance the bitterness of the beer. The rice came out especially nice this week probably because I used less water than the package recommended. I also fried up the chinese sausage beforehand and resisted the temptation to throw it in with the stirfry which would have sogged up the crunchy texture. Instead I kept it aside and used it as a garnish, although I ate half of them while cooking. And I still have the steamed pork buns, and half a rack of ribs from yesterday in my fridge, so I should be good for the week. After eating I had another cup of coffee made in my new coffeemaker. I have to remember to set the timer so that I will have a steaming pot of coffee waiting for me in the morning. I also "seasoned" my wok liberally with the sesame seed oil I bought yesterday from the Asian food specialty store. I did the dishes twice, once in the morning, and again after cooking. I played some Yahoo! pool and watched parts of various movies on cable. My plan was to do the laundry as well, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. It shouldn't be a problem since I have the 3 new shirts I bought yesterday. The last few weeks I have been going in to work on Sundays to preview slides for the Monday conference but apparently tomorrow's conference will be a lecture-type deal from a prospective faculty candidate. It's about 4:30 and I plan to spend the rest of the evening reading.

Okey doke. It's time to record yet another eventless day in the endless dramaless continuity of existence I like to call my life. Let's see. In terms of getting things in order I would have to say that today was fairly successful. I headed out to the outlets in Medford to pick up some cheap shirts and ties since my wardrobe is beginning to look drab, and the ties (which are the lynch pins of my wardrobe) have been accumulating some quite nasty, quite obvious, and quite embarrasing stains. I also picked up a pair of burgundy shoes to wear with my non-black/blue/grey slacks. As I was ready to pay for the shoes, the salesgirl told me I could pick out another pair of shoes for half price if I wanted so I also bought a pair of leather sandals, retail priced at 89.99, on sale for 29.99, and so with the 50% discount I got a nice pair of sandals for only 15 bucks. Overall, I bought 3 shirts, 4 ties, 3 pairs of socks, one pair of sandals, and one pair of shoes for $250. Then I drove like a madman back to Rochester for no good reason. When I got back to Rochester I checked out the Asian food store which stocked some nice items. I got some steamed pork buns, chinese sausages, dried pork, baby bok choy, sesame seed oil, and oyster sauce. Then I headed up to the Rochester Target and got me a programmable coffee maker, along with a pound of beef and a pack of mushrooms for my weekly stirfry. Then I got a haircut at a little place across the plaza from Target. Then I came home and cooked up some BBQ baby back ribs which had been sitting in my fridge for a week. Frankly, when I cut open the plastic package of the ribs, they were smelling very putrid, but according to the expiration label they were still good, so I blasted them on broil in the oven for 45 minutes, basting frequently with Dave's Famous BBQ sauce, spiked with some tabasco sauce. In the end they turned out deeee-lish. I chomped on them while watching Iron Chef Japan lose to some chef from the mainland. Let's see, then I played some Yahoo spades and MSN backgammon, watched s'more TV about snake charmers, and read about 2 pages of Catch-22. And now here I am recording and recounting my day's activities as if they had some meaning. Laleela. Whoopdedo. I would have to say my mood is chipper. It is windy outside. Must be some kind of front moving in or out.