Evie Day 300
Good morning, and a happy humpday to you. Today is Wednesday, 10 January 2024.
Today is my granddaughter’s 300th day living on this mortal plane. Woot! Let’s hear it for the young lady!
Tuesday is the day I normally make a taco run to see Gilberto and the crew over at Cascada la Golindrina, a nice little restaurant at the edge of Lawrence. I pop in, have a beer, maybe a shot of tequila, and get the family order in. I usually pick up ten tacos, chips and salsa, queso, and refried beans… the usual. We mix it up from time to time, swapping out for fajitas, or one of their house specialties, and, when I’m planning a day out or two, I’ll pick up a couple of orders of their mango habanero chicken wings to reheat in the air fryer. Last night, however, we couldn’t do that with the snow.
I gifted my wife with a cast iron tortilla press for Christmas. She had a list on an internet site entitled, “Lisa’s Private List”, which, of course, means, “Things my husband should look at for gift ideas”. She’s been picking up some easy-to-prep masa harina at the grocery, and her tortillas are very good. We had some leftover roast beef and a few other ingredients, so we improvised some street tacos for dinner last night. It was really good… but I’m still planning on going over to the restaurant sometime to grab a little takeout.
After dinner, we watched a little college basketball – the undefeated Houston Cougars traveled to Iowa State, and the Cougars found out about something called Hilton Magic, and the Cyclones handed the visiting Houston squad their first loss of the season. Houston had risen to #2 in the polls, but they had only played one top-25 team up until then. Now they are in the Big 12 and they’ll have to face top 25 teams just about every week – 7 Big 12 teams are ranked.
I also noticed that Purdue – the number 1 team in the country – fell last night to unranked Nebraska. That means that if the #3 team can get through the week and win their games on Wednesday night and Saturday afternoon, they could rise to #1 in the country… and that #3 team right now is the University of Kansas. Woot!
I jump back into my virtual classroom in another hour and a half. I’m talking about cloud storage and “Platform as a Service” tools today. Yesterday went pretty well, we’re about halfway through, and I have to get a couple of slides put together for a meeting on Friday regarding Diversity and Inclusion. I need to get my content organized.
That’s all I really have for now. Time to get this in the can and get on with my regular morning romance with medium-roast Tanzanian Peaberry coffee beans. Might take some of last evening’s leftovers and toss those into a skillet with some eggs for a scramble.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
