: Caprese and cricket bats :
I got some good news and bad news about the non-profit job today, mostly bad. I didn't get the job because they hired someone else, but they liked me enough where the director said she would see about giving me some freelance work and possibly a temporary position. The best case scenario would be if they were able to hire me for a temporary position and perhaps employ me until my SRS date. Kinda doubt that's going to happen, but it's a nice thought.
So after starting my day with that downer news, I decided to take action. I went out to the movie theater for the first time in many months to see X-Men 3. I'm not going to give away any spoilers, but my overall impression was that the film lacked subtlety. It was a lot of grand speechmaking and intense battles and the plot was a bit patchy. I wonder why it is that plots never seem to be as hokey in the comics as they sometimes are in the movies.
After the movie I went over to my storage facility to meet up with a woman who bought my TV entertainment center on Ebay for $26. Since my TV got busted I didn't need that piece of furniture anymore - what a waste that I brought it all the way from Houston and sold it before I ever used it again.
I came home to make caprese for lunch, which is an Italian dish usually served as an appetizer. The last time I had it was at an Italian restaurant with my ex-coworkers just before I left Houston. It's basically a salad layering fresh tomato slices, slices of fresh mozzerella cheese and fresh green basil leaves, drizzled with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. I also added some sun-dried tomatoes, jumbo kalamata olives and green olives stuffed with garlic cloves. Here's what it looks like:
After lunch I tackled a project I've been meaning to work on - putting a new rubber grip on my cricket bat. My bat survived the fire with only a little cosmetic stain from the smoke , but the original rubber grip split from the heat. So I bought a new rubber grip, but I wasn't sure how to put it on. The grip is a rubber tube about 10 inches long and it fits tightly over the bat handle, which is made of strips of cane wrapped in twine. The problem is that there's too much resistance to simply slip it on and it's too thick to roll up into a donut to unroll onto the handle. So I surfed on the Internet to find a solution that someone posted on a bulletin board - I threaded a plastic grocery bag through the grip and then used the handles to pull the grip over the handle, using the plastic as a lubricant of sorts. Once the grip was in the correct position, I rolled up each end and cut the plastic away. Here's what it looks like now:
Now I just need to find someone to bowl a few overs with me - that's going to be a lot harder than putting a grip on.
So after starting my day with that downer news, I decided to take action. I went out to the movie theater for the first time in many months to see X-Men 3. I'm not going to give away any spoilers, but my overall impression was that the film lacked subtlety. It was a lot of grand speechmaking and intense battles and the plot was a bit patchy. I wonder why it is that plots never seem to be as hokey in the comics as they sometimes are in the movies.
After the movie I went over to my storage facility to meet up with a woman who bought my TV entertainment center on Ebay for $26. Since my TV got busted I didn't need that piece of furniture anymore - what a waste that I brought it all the way from Houston and sold it before I ever used it again.
I came home to make caprese for lunch, which is an Italian dish usually served as an appetizer. The last time I had it was at an Italian restaurant with my ex-coworkers just before I left Houston. It's basically a salad layering fresh tomato slices, slices of fresh mozzerella cheese and fresh green basil leaves, drizzled with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. I also added some sun-dried tomatoes, jumbo kalamata olives and green olives stuffed with garlic cloves. Here's what it looks like:
After lunch I tackled a project I've been meaning to work on - putting a new rubber grip on my cricket bat. My bat survived the fire with only a little cosmetic stain from the smoke , but the original rubber grip split from the heat. So I bought a new rubber grip, but I wasn't sure how to put it on. The grip is a rubber tube about 10 inches long and it fits tightly over the bat handle, which is made of strips of cane wrapped in twine. The problem is that there's too much resistance to simply slip it on and it's too thick to roll up into a donut to unroll onto the handle. So I surfed on the Internet to find a solution that someone posted on a bulletin board - I threaded a plastic grocery bag through the grip and then used the handles to pull the grip over the handle, using the plastic as a lubricant of sorts. Once the grip was in the correct position, I rolled up each end and cut the plastic away. Here's what it looks like now:
Now I just need to find someone to bowl a few overs with me - that's going to be a lot harder than putting a grip on.
