Today, Hersch and I went to the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery and took a tour. Chateau Ste. Michelle makes some of my favorite wines, including a Reisling and a Pinot Gris. Liana joined us for dinner at The Pink Door, in the Pike Place Market. The restaurant features Italian-American fare with a very intimate dining room.
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We just came back from dinner at Quinn’s. After ordering drinks, we ordered braised meatball sliders; duck and duck rillette; oxtails with potato gnocchi and crispy marrow; and a side of marinated olives. The meatball sliders were pretty good, but they were tiny. Take a look at your keyboard. The sliders were about the size of four keys on your keyboard. The duck and duck rillette also included foie gras on top of a chicken mousse. Served with pieces of toast, the dish was quite tasty.
The highlight of my dinner was the oxtails dish. It had a really rich flavor which paired with the gnocchi quite well. The crispy marrow added even more to the already great combination of flavors. If you’re not into rich foods, you may find it a bit on the salty side. For me, however, it was so delicious. In fact, it was delicious enough to order a second plate.
If you’re in Seattle, I would recommend a visit to Quinn’s. I wouldn’t say that it is a must, but it is definitely worth a visit.
A number of people have asked me about this Twitter thing that I do now. I try to explain that it is sort of like a mini-blog or a collection of away messages publicizing what I am doing at the time. Sometimes they get it, other times they don’t. Robert Scoble (a.k.a. Scobleizer) tweeted a link to this video: Twitter in Plain English. Check out the wonders of Twitter:
I have enabled OpenID support for the blog thanks to VerseLogic’s OpenID plugin. With OpenID you can authenticate to supporting sites using a URL you control. As long as you are authenticated to your OpenID provider, you can quickly authenticate with any other OpenID site. The first time you log into a site with OpenID, you can quickly create a profile by sharing information with your OpenID provider and the new website.
I did not opt to manage my own OpenID yet, but if I like phpMyID after taking a good look at it, I might just manage my OpenID with it. I am going to see about implementing OpenID on blogho.us, but that looks like it will require some extra effort. Perhaps it will be worth it, though, if I migrate over the other blogs hosted here. I have been wanting to do that for some time, since ask-mark.com was never really meant to be anything more than a place for me to vent. I think it would serve the other blogs better to be on their own domain. Maybe blogho.us isn’t it, though. I’ll have to figure that out later.
Right now, I’ve got to get ready for Cristina’s birthday party.
I know this is late, but on Saturday, February 2, Audra Martin, sister of our very own Allison, was crowned Miss UCF (I would link to a Miss UCF page, but the official pages have not been updated since 2006!).
The Daily Herald reports that Audra won more than $3,000 in scholarship money and gift certificates. As a local Miss America winner, Audra will also spend a year promoting her cause: combating cyber bullying.
Congratulations to Audra on all of her hard work, and good luck to her in July, when she competes in the Miss Florida pageant. Perhaps Miss America 2009 will be on my must watch list for next year.
I don’t know what possessed me to do it, but I did. I finally joined yet another mass of people and joined Facebook. It’s just past midnight, which only partly explains this. Ugh, I guess you can look me up on there now. For the two of you who have already confirmed me as a friend, Thanks! I’m going to bed.
I just finished completing the move to Google Apps for ask-mark.com. E-mail will now be handled by Gmail. I have also added Docs, Chat and Calendar to the list of apps available for the site. I hope this improves the quality of my e-mail experience with the site.
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