Observations

I wonder if there is a store out there that carries my wife's stove. To her, there are only two settings on the range: high and off. The first time I noticed her using High to incinerate some eggs, I pointed out that there were several other possibilities on the dial besides High, and some, even, that could get better results. I later realized that this was not the point at all. To her, life's more mundane tasks are to be done at light speed, thus leaving more time for the joys in life, like reading a book or writing a story. Sometimes the consequences of this approach can be a little unexpected. Like the other night when we were eating Dago Red (writer's note: What is the origin of Dago? A quick check of wikipedia did not shed any light on it. Each time I take it to work and people ask me what it is, they always comment on the apparent ethnic slur). Kersten, who has taken to eating her own meals full of garden goodness, served up this delectable dish to the rest of us, complete with rather chunky looking pieces of meat interspersed around the rotini noodles (writer's note: the rotini, not macaroni, noodles were close at hand, case in point). When asked by our oldest, Kersten was definitively caging about disclosing the exact origin of the meat. After being pressed, she admitted that it was cut-up meatless portobello mushroom burgers that had been first to identify themselves in our chaotic freezer. Exceedingly happy to have dinner hot and ready, I tried to put a brave face on the meat, but admitted that hamburger would have fit slightly better. With a worried look on her face, she wondered out loud if she should have brought it over to a family in our ward who was in need of a dinner. At least she got some reading time that night. Are stove with only High any cheaper?

Final note: Bad sports years (like this one) are actually pretty good for us. I have had far less stress lately because I know that all my teams are truly the worst teams out there. Still, I have to wonder why Cal's coach would call a time out late in the first half up 39 points. I think that is pretty classless. I think we won the kicking game though.