January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
Contacts day 2.
Couldn’t get them in after ten minutes of trying just now. Later. Also, this:
Me: “Would you still have married me if I looked like this?” (I.E. without glasses.)
Shannon: (Long pause.) “You know, I think I’m the wrong person to ask.”
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN.
November 2011
6 posts
Things I’ll miss about New York, number 3: the combo of Xian Famous Foods and the International Bar.
Isaac’s new words today: “bird,” “cheese.”
Things I’ll miss in New York #2:
Sitting in the parked car while Shannon nurses Isaac in the back, watching New Yorkers pass by, and wondering which of them he might be like someday.
61° yesterday and Mario Lopez is outside. Why are we moving to LA again?
Things I'll miss in New York #1: El Rincon del...
Yes, I know: Mexican food is better in L.A. Don’t even start, because a) E.R.D.S. serves Ecuadoran food, and b) my love for it isn’t about the taste or quality of the caldo gallega. I love it because it’s four flights up a cast-iron staircase in a regular old office building on Jeweler’s Row - but because it’s Jeweler’s Row, visiting a regular old office...
October 2011
3 posts
We’re moving to Los Angeles. In February, or maybe a little sooner, but not forever - just for a couple of years. Just thought you should know!
Three hours of sleep, 9.5 hours jetlagged, in a hot room, listening to a presentation about video encoding.
So this happened: through a complicated series of travel logistics and schedule misreadings, I ended up getting a ride from Belmar to Perth Amboy, NJ with a very nice lady - a stranger I met in the train station parking lot - who believes that the world is going to end on Friday. Apparently the Family Radio guy has set a new date, and she is a believer. Actual exchange:
Yossi: Well, now that...
September 2011
5 posts
At Zeitgeist in the Mission. First Drive Like Jehu album. Couldn’t be happier.
August 2011
2 posts
Cool earthquake, gonna go loot.
July 2011
16 posts
Mobility
Often when I run into people who don’t have kids, they ask “so what’s he doing now?” - meaning, generally, what stage of development has he hit? I asked the same thing myself many a time.
Here’s what he’s doing now: Saturday, at the playground, I changed his diaper, then put him on the rubber mat for a second. He immediately crawled away from me over to the...
Cherries, honeydew, couscous salad with feta and...
The kid is turning into a bread fiend. I don’t know if it’s my presence (during the week I’m not around for lunch or dinner), the early hour, or something I’m doing wrong, but he’s refusing stuff that he happily ate last week. He eats all of it when Shannon’s feeding him.
(And actually, Shannon’s presence makes a difference. She went out for a run while I...
Lullabies (reposted)
Isaac didn’t want breakfast today, yesterday, or the day before. He did want to throw kamut puffs, deliberately and one at a time, onto the floor. I think he likes the crunching sound when I walk on them. After he throws them, he points at the bag of cereal and whines for more.
So instead of talking about breakfast I’m going to talk about lullabies. Isaac has been falling asleep on his own...
Lullabies
Isaac didn’t want breakfast today, yesterday, or the day before. He did want to throw kamut puffs, deliberately and one at a time, onto the floor. I think he likes the crunching sound when I walk on them. After he throws them, he points at the bag of cereal and whines for more.
So instead of talking about breakfast I’m going to talk about lullabies. Isaac has been falling asleep on...
Cooking for Isaac, July 4 weekend
Saturday I strapped Isaac into the car at 6am, half an hour after he’d woken up, and we slipped off to the Coop to do the weekly shopping while Shannon slept in. He was drowsy on the way out, murmuring gently to himself while I stayed as quiet as possible, but he perked up when I put him in the sling for the shopping. By the time we were in line to pay he was chatty and grabby, kicking his...
White beans with rosemary and olive oil, kamut...
Uh-oh. The kamut might be losing its charm. I put a pile in front of him this morning as usual while I prepared everything else, but he ate a few, swept a few onto the floor, and left most there. It’s hard not to be sympathetic: they taste like nothing.
The white beans are not breakfast food, I know, but it’s the day before grocery shopping and the cupboard is bare. Plus he is a baby...
June 2011
2 posts
Scrambled eggs with spinach, turkey sausage, and...
Please don’t think I caramelized the onions special for the omelet this morning. At 6am I’m lucky not to put orange juice in my coffee. No, Tuesday I came home from work, put down my briefcase and picked up a skillet to start cooking what I hoped would be a week’s worth of meals: roast chicken, turkey sausages, white beans, broccolini, and a whole pile of caramelized onions,...
Blueberries with yogurt, strawberries, toast,...
Here’s how Isaac eats fruit. Because he won’t take it from a spoon this week (he is exactly ten months old today) I cut it up fine and put it on the tray of his high chair. He picks it up with either hand and pilots it toward his mouth. When I say “picks it up” I’m probably not conveying what happens. He’ll sometimes take a piece of strawberry by closing his fat...
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
20 posts
