An Indonesian in Mississippi. Not as catchy as "An Englishman in New York"
Lovely ladies
“Penelo-phernalia”… oh man, I’m so clever. So yeah, now that I’m mostly back from the land of the walking dead here are a few more pics. If our family weren’t so nice they’d already have the pitchforks out. 5 days without a single pic of baby Penelope–a travesty.
Hurry
I had hosted Nifty for quite some time–too long really by the somewhat loose rules of the Nifty exchange program–so it was time to say ‘goodbye’. The night before I was to pack him up for his trip to his next host, I took him up to the top level of the parking garage next to my office and took some shots, including the last two posts here and here. Jackson doesn’t have much of a skyline, but I showed Nifty the sights anyway. He’s the silent type, so I don’t know what he was thinking, but I think it was a bitter-sweet moment for him too. We’ve had some good times together these past few weeks. » Continue Reading…
Obvious sign is obvious
Tetris
"Oh yes, sushi... you will be mine!"
Oops, in my haste to post as many Nifty Adventures posts as I could before the next guy started taking shots and posting them in the discussion thread, I missed this outing. When Susie was still here for Christmas we went out to Haru, I mean “Edo”, Japanese Restaurant. Haru is no more. New management has come in and renamed it Edo. Same location, same menu, same great ingredients–only a name change. Not sure why, but there it is. The new management had happened a while back, and we’d been to Haru/Edo a few times since and been happy with the food and service, but the official name change is recent. » Continue Reading…
Wrapped tight
Winters are very mild in Mississippi. It seldom even dips below freezing, and it’s a common sight to see people (who are firmly in their right minds) walking about in short sleeves in the middle of winter. So imagine the chaos when a sub-freezing temperature cold front arrived and sat on top of us for about a week. I’m talking cats and dogs living together–mass hysteria! It definitely dropped below freezing–at night it was in the teens with wind chill sometimes reaching single digits–and stayed there for 4 (I think) days straight. Compounding the misery were multiple water pipe ruptures around Jackson, causing Jackson to be without water altogether for a few days and under boil water alert for a couple weeks. Kids got out of school, and porta-potties were de rigueur downtown where water was mostly unavailable for the better part of at least a week; longer in some places. » Continue Reading…
Stix
After our baby-doctor visit we grabbed some lunch at Stix. Stix is a hibachi grill and sushi place similar to Kyoto, Bonsai, and any number of other “Japanese steakhouse” places in town. Stix had to close down for a while a couple years ago, but they’re open again now. Not sure how long they’ve been open–this is the first time I’ve been back since my office moved downtown. Or, er, we moved to a new office downtown. The old office is still right where it was. » Continue Reading…
"There's the baby right there."
Short version: don’t take pictures at a baby-doctor clinic, or probably any clinic for that matter. » Continue Reading…
Make up your mind!
Vignette