Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Ohm are in a car driving down the highway. An officer pulls them over and asks Heisenberg, “Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”
“No, but I can tell you exactly where I am,” Heisenberg replies.
The officer gets suspicious and decides to search the vehicle. Opening the trunk, he discovers a dead cat in a box.
“Do you know there’s a dead cat back here?!” the officer exclaims.
“Well, now I do!” replies Schrödinger.
Getting frustrated, the officer decides to take the three men in for questioning — but Ohm resisted.
This is a super-easy recipe. My first time trying I went from pre-heating the oven to dinner on the table in under 30 minutes.
The source recipe calls for tilapia, but it should work with nearly any white fish. Really there’s no reason it couldn’t work well with darker fish like salmon or tuna, though being thicker you may need to cook longer and flip the fish halfway through, as well as increase the other ingredient amounts.
This shall come as no surprise to anyone that lives in or near Boston: my car got hit by another car while driving in downtown Boston. This is an every day occurrence, and is why many people avoid driving downtown.
The downside:
my car got hit
it must be fixed
we didn’t make the appointment that I was picking up Alpha child for
The upside:
nobody was hurt (in either car)
the damage is relatively minor
it wasn’t my fault
I have a dashcam 🙂
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Note several so-very-Boston things that occur in this video:
a car crash in perfect driving conditions (shouldn’t happen)
the two guys on the sidewalk that briefly glance in our direction, then keep going (principal of don’t-get-involved)
the woman who takes advantage of the break in traffic to jaywalk (no fucks left to give)
Sadly, the other driver was scurrilous and claimed that I had swerved from the left lane into the right before stopping suddenly. (That would also be a very Boston thing to do, if it had happened.) Our insurance companies found in my favor after reviewing the dashcam footage, and my car’s damage is fully paid for – nothing out of pocket, no deductible.
I will not drive without a dashcam ever again. I wish I could provide a review of my particular unit but, sadly, it’s not made anymore – a review would be pointless.
We had been riffing on the Steven Wright joke, “When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.” Alpha’s ad-lib made the joke that much darker. I am quite proud.
Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in the skillet until it shimmers
Add onions, garlic, and ginger, and sauté for a couple of minutes, until the onions begin to soften
Stir in, and bring to a simmer:butterchicken stocktomato pastecinnamoncumingaram masalatumericsalt
Add chicken and cauliflower, and stir until coatedDon’t be alarmed: the previous steps leave you with a paste, not a sauce, and the chicken and cauliflower might seem a little dry.
Cover, and simmer for about 15 minutes (or until the chicken is cooked through)
Stir in lemon juice and cream, and bring back to a simmer
Simmer, uncovered, for a couple of minutes
Notes
A variation of a traditional Indian dish, my recipe is adapted from The Modern Proper.This is one of those recipes where your significant other may saunter through the kitchen and compliment the fragrance; children might run away in fear and loathing. The final product is smooth, tasty, and not nearly as strong as it seemed while you were cooking.
“Baba” plays the part of the matriarch and rents a house on the cape, then invites the families to come stay with her. Our responsibilities include making dinner (plus cleaning up) and enjoying ourselves.
This year was one of the rainiest summers in a long time, among the top 5 since record keeping began, but we still had plenty of time for fun.
Swimming was poor for humans but great for seals on Saturday evening
We went on a whale watch out of Provincetown on Wednesday. It was really foggy and we didn’t see any whales, or anything at all, for almost two hours.
There is a boat in the center of this picture, less than a hundred meters away
Suddenly, out of the fog, we stumbled across some whales that really showed off for a bit.
We discovered Skaket Beach, on the bay side of Orleans, on a beautiful afternoon.
Sunset at Skaket Beach
The beach is very flat so as the tide retreats you can walk out very, very far.
Looking back at Skaket Beach after walking out to meet the retreating water
There are natural tide pools that trap crustaceans. The kids had fun hunting hermit crabs and minnows. Tim dug up a couple of steamers to show the kids what lives beneath the sand.
Beta child made some new friends, as usual. Baba did, too, with a couple that lives in the next town over from us. Meghan and I had fun talking with them about local stuff, and listening to the husband grouse about local contractors and the crappy McMansions they put up.
A couple of days into our stay, a local hawk mother decided that her chicks were ready to leave the nest. One of the three wasn’t quite ready and complained, loudly, every remaining day of our stay.
This newly-fledged hawk haunted his former roosts while complaining, loudly, and calling for mom.
The mother hawk, to her credit, never strayed too far away. The siblings showed up as well to coax him off his branch. This one, however, mostly hopped from tree to tree and demanded a nest and food.
Other highlights, of which there are no photos
We got Baba on a rented tricycle and went a couple of miles up the Cape Code Rail Trail. The Fox family rode their bikes all the way from Orleans to Wellfleet.
I rode solo from Orleans to Wellfleet, and Orleans to the Harwich Rotary a few days later
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