Teich.Net :: All In

I’ve been weighed down recently by guilt. A lot of it. I feel guilty about failing to find enough time to post here about goings-on. I feel guilty that Indy is so sweet and happy, even though he is desperate for more exercise today. I feel guilty about all the things that don’t get done at work every day, even with the already-long hours that compound my guilt in every other area. The list goes on…

With all this guilt (I even feel guilty about my present inability to come up with a good-sounding synonym for guilt), I was going to end with a joke involving rosaries, Hail Mary’s, and the odds of turning Catholic, but I realize now that I’m exhausted and not so confident that any attempts at religious humor would actually come across as more funny than offensive.

Instead, here’s something constructive:

Coming soon on All In: Cool stuff to do in Montreal, or at least more about Brunoise than “yum!” — that much I’ll give you now; stories from a chocolate and tea tasting press event I had the privileges of attending tonight at Charles Chocolates.

Fun for Indy: We just played some soccer with an abandoned basketball at the school; I had no idea he could dribble!

Work: Writing this doesn’t help and I’m going back in a moment to the presentation I need to finish preparing for tomorrow, but I am resigned to the fact that this area won’t improve until I stop caring or we get more people.

Here’s hoping Oren swoops in to rescue All In with an exciting dispatch from Japan.

I rarely eat steak — with a recovering vegetarian wife, I just don’t get the chance that often.  A business trip to Vegas provided an opporuntity that I jumped at two days ago.  After calling a few of the top steakhouses in Vegas, I finally found a table at Craftsteak. 

I’ll leave the running commentary to others, and cut to the chase.  We had an interest in the Kobe steaks. BY FAR the best option was to get the tasting menu, and get the tasting menu we did. 4 people shared 5 apetizers, 4 cuts of beef, 3 sides, 5 deserts, 3 full glasses of impressive wine (and a patridge in a pear tree…)

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Some places lend themselves to hyperbole. Anything less fails to do justice to their character. These are the sorts of places you just have to try for yourself so that you, too, can join in the fun and excitement of extravagant statements like this: Di Fara is the best New York pizza you will ever taste. Everything you have read or heard is true.
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Thanks to those who were concerned. We have not actually dropped off the face of the planet. Just off the blogosphere. And just for a little while. But we’re back, or at least I am, (Oren is in Vegas for the next few days) and we have stories. We’ve been to Montreal, New York, and New Jersey, with a quick jaunt (my first) out to Long Island. We’ve snuck in some fine dining in San Francisco. And we’ve even visited some old favorites and scoped out the source of some hype in Berkeley. (Maybe you noticed the comment on the last in the series on Ici belying our visit?) So, stay tuned for brief picks and pans from our travels and whatever else I can muster before friends and family descend again on Friday.