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Iberico Bellota ham. Chili garlic prawns. Moorish Pork Jowls Antonio, you guys know how to eat!

Giordano's Chicago Special.

Have a great one Vicki! We miss you around here. Cheers!

Road Trip!

Saw her on stage in London in The Children's Hour http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/feb/10/the-childrens-hour-review . Unfortunately some A-list film actors are not so good on stage, and Knightly was in that category (as was John Hurt in a Chekov play we saw him in). The real deal was Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51 a couple of weeks ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34255135 . She was bewilderingly good as Rosalind Franklin, who took the X-ray images of DNA the Crick and Watson based their Nobel prize on. She was truly fantastic live on stage, to the extent that you just forgot what a global megastar you were watching live - she just inhabited the character. Awesome.

Thanks for the invitation Greg! I've always wanted to try these restaurants. See you in N'awlins.

All of them, if I'm lucky.

Turtle soup at Pascal's Manale

At Oporto with a friend. The lamb ribs were outstanding. Everything else was really good.

Que Rico in Slidell

A good two days of working on the living room with my father. Faux fireplace, wired for TV and speakers, new built in nook for the electronics and some in-wall speakers to clean things up. Ship lap paneling, a reclaimed mantle and no wires makes me very happy. We just need to caulk, fill, prime and paint the pine and oil the mantle and take care of a spot where the plaster didn't cooperate when installing the speakers.

I've been to Edinburgh and I would very happily return.