Adventures In Dining Out

Last week Mrs. C wanted to go to a German restaurant in New Britain: over an hour away. We never made it, so yesterday, Saturday, she brought it up again. We had eaten lunch late, and so a long drive to dinner wouldn't be too bad. In the event we got their at about 7:00 PM, and it was packed. The parking lot was filled, and the street parking was, too.

Mrs. C is notoriously indecisive, and picky. We drove up the road to a mall area where there are numerous places to dine. "Here?" "No." "Here?" "Na-a-a-ah." We finally ended up driving another twenty minutes to Rein's Deli in Vernon, an authentic NY Jewish deli. I had a corned-beef reuben. To match the corned beef I had last week for St. Patrick's Day. And today we go to the St. Patrick's Day parade in Mystic. Perhaps. Here it is 11:00 AM and the parade starts at 1:00. Oh, and I just learned we're having corned beef for dinner at the in-law's. Hunh.

I do happen to be German on my maternal grandmother's side (her parents were from Germany) and she married an Irishman (came over when he was two). So I'm all over this stuff. My paternal side is Scots-Irish, but have been in America pre-dating the Civil War.

Sunset

There was a nice sunset tonight. A few intermittent showers; cool at 45-ish degrees, but it certainly beats the hell out of the bitter cold and snow we've been having all winter. I usually enjoy each of the seasons in turn (which is why I don't care for Florida: it didn't seem to have seasons when I lived there for 2.5 years) but I am eagerly anticipating spring. Which happens to begin tomorrow.

My "resolution" to post often has obviously fallen into the same hole that contains my intention to go to the gym often.

January Is Rolling Right Along

So here it is, the fourth day into the new year, and personally nothing really bad has happened yet.

Overseas, of course, the big news is the Israeli ground assault on Gaza; nothing like a big "Welcome Aboard!" to Obama. At least he has some weeks yet to sort out a response before it is officially dumped on his plate with everything else. I have confidence in his ability to handle more than one crisis at a time.

As to my view on the Israeli/Palestinian issue, I say only that both sides have valid points, neither side has been blameless; and I don't subscribe to the "Israel is always in the right" mind-set.

For what that's worth. Before the Iraq war, I took the attitude that "they" were dead set on having their war, so let them go and it should be over soon. Boy was I wrong there. Despite online friends' warnings, I wasn't paying close attention and never realized the full depths of incompetence/obtuseness/evil reachable by the Bush administration. We should never have gone to war in the first place, and nothing that has happened since then has justified it. Oy. I'm stopping now before I get into a full-blown ill-informed rant.