“Chilling at Home”
The usual live music streams kept us company on Tuesday evening – Hayes Carll (this week from his front porch with fiddle accompaniment), followed by the BoH Supper Club. Both were well done as usual.
Wednesday was the 3rd anniversary of that lovely day in Cozumel. I found a card with the caption “May the Honeymoon Never End”. It’s funny to me because we didn’t have an official honeymoon and I think McD has given up on it now. We did have a planning session a few months ago but couldn’t come up with anything that we really liked. Some nice flowers took the sting out of the message in the card.
Diana made anniversary dinner reservations for us at Rye in downtown McKinney. I decided to trim up my large beard, wear a collared shirt and some non-workout shorts for the occasion. We sat outside on the sidewalk and enjoyed a delicious meal. Here are the descriptions of the shareable plates that we enjoyed from the Rye menu.
Ceviche
tx striped bass, yellow curry crema, cilantro, celery, fish sauce, lime, sesame oil, fish skin chicharrón.
Blue Cheesecake
grilled local mushrooms, danish blue, pecan, rye cracker crust, lavash, wild arugula, cherry gastrique
Queso Stuffed Wagyu Sliders
tx craft wagyu, green chili queso, green chili-bacon jam, thousand island, brioche buns.
Those Wagyu sliders were ridiculously good and rich. We took one home so that we could enjoy our final plate of chicken baos. It was wonderful to get out and celebrate in what seemed like a very safe socially distanced environment.
The Ogans teased us with pictures of them enjoying a day in the Florida panhandle on a pontoon boat. We did try to rent one when we visited but waited too late to think about it.
At work we migrated our major financial systems to a new cloud environment on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I was quite nervous about this activity and it all went very smoothly. Much better performance now and glad to get that behind me.
I briefly attended several happy hour online calls on Friday evening – I suppose it’s kind of like hopping from one bar to the next. First a work one with the financial team who helped with the migrations, then Diana’s girlfriends from California (with occasional husband participation), and 
finally a FaceTime with the Wahbas. We finished up in time to catch the last couple of songs from a Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen song swap live stream. Seeing them both reminded me of the night that I broke my finger. Keen was the emcee and Lovett an Austin City Limits Hall of Fame inductee.
My crazy running wife successfully completed Week 8 Day 1 of Couch to 5K with a solid 25 minute run. I’m very proud of how she’s kept after it. At the end of week 8 she should be ready for her 5K run – we’ll have to pick that out.
After the run, we were joined by the contractor who’s putting together an estimate for our master bathroom remodel. What have we embarked upon?
Diana made me a delicious omelet with chorizo and I heard from “My Three Sons” on Father’s Day, which was very nice. The funniest picture I got along with special greetings was from Anne:
I started “Sontag” by Benjamin Moser this week. At over 700 pages it might be with me for a few weeks. It’s described as “The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face”. I can’t honestly remember what drove me to pick this biography, but I’ve started and I’ll do my best to finish. I don’t know too much about Sontag and so I’m sure I’ll learn a lot along the way.
Over to music – I really enjoy Dawes and this is a great song from them. Great sound and guitars.