Dusty Chalk

I had a whole bunch of stuff at Reynold's Tavern in Annapolis: bacon mac & cheese, Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Served with diced Tomato, Cucumber, and Kalamata Olives and Feta Cheese with warmed pita, drizzled with pepper infused Olive Oil; Seared scallops over foraged mushroom and parmesan risotto, finished with balsamic reductions; andouille sausage in a cajun spiced tomato sauce; artichoke lobster dip; some other stuff (I don't even remember it all). I won the evening when I took some of the mac & cheese (the bacon had already all been eaten off), and drizzled the andouille-infused cajun-spiced tomato sauce from that dish -- they were delicious together, and everyone else followed suit. and then a berry cream and shortbread "cake" like desert. I told everyone I wasn't much of a desert person, but everyone else was stuff by then, so I ended up having to eat most of it. I'm going to have to walk several miles every day this week to burn it all off.

Went to see Selling Fairfax by the Pound last night (local, awesome Genesis tribute band). Setlist went something like this (from memory, so excuse any inaccuracies, and really doubt the order -- there was an intermission in there somewhere): Eleventh Earl of Mar Dancing with the Moonlit Knight Firth of Fifth some song from the first album something with the lyric baby (Silent Sun, maybe?) Blood on the Rooftops First and Second Homes by the Sea Follow You Follow Me Duke Suite (Behind the Lines/Duchess/Guide Vocal) Keep it Dark In Too Deep Entangled Horizons/Supper's Ready Chamber of 32 Doors The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Musical Box (Closing Section) Dance on a Volcano In the Cage Medley instrumental section from Three Sides Live (inc. Cinema Show and Battle of Epping Forest) Afterglow Watcher of the Skies omitted encore: The Knife (!)

(Waits for someone to post garden tomato art)

I just can’t imagine trying to dial in the relative phases myself, without some special equipment keeping me honest.

Cute mushroom cloud.

Child cruelty

Yeah, I wouldn’t do it, even if I were having my earlobe piercings dilated.

Nursery Cryme So great, from the opening barn burner, “Musical Box” to the underrated closer, “Fountain of Salmacis”.

Trespass “Stand up and fight for you know we are right we must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our minds...”

From Genesis to Revelation In preparation for tomorrow night:

I’d actually recommend going backwards from Selling England by the Pound ...but yeah, if prog ain’t your thing, don’t force yourself. They are pretty much prog incarnate during the PG years. Many consider ...Lamb... to be the pinnacle of prog, and it’s as impenetrable as it gets.

Unholy carp!

I hate people. I should probably live where there aren’t people.

Yeah, what he said.

(Cups hand to ear) Pardon?

Happy birthday! (party favour noise and hat)

The rest of the albums range from completely abstract and experimental to straight ahead almost-jazz.

I tend to use this adage in reverse. If it’s good as a latte, it’s good as coffee plus creamer (I asked for almond milk lattes, so I cream with various nut milks). Besides, I don’t need it to be steamed milk hot. But that’s just me, I’m not trying to change anyone else’s mind. Please continue to enjoy your little hearts in your foam. They’re cute. ? So...yeah, I’m a French press guy, too. I tend towards French and espresso roasts.

Eye of Every Storm is a stone cold classic.

Not today, but this week, I started learning JSP. Didn't realize that was something different than Javascript (which run on the browser), but rather, Java Server Pages (which run on the server). Somehow, I've managed to spend most of my career avoiding all but the most trivial GUI work. (I usually do backend work. [cue Steve]) And I already was told I could call myself an expert once I learned how to do Decorators. I think she was being sarcastic, but who cares, the guys who usually do the GUI work are too busy trying to upgrade all the code from Java7 to Java8, and I'm pretty sure I can get it all done in a couple days. So...pride.

Disen Gage, Libertage -- egad, this is superb. It's like if you took King Crimson's scat-based improvs, and made music out of them. Definitely listening to the rest of their catalog. https://disengage.bandcamp.com/album/libertage

That does look tasty.