Archive for March, 2009

Tongue-Tingling Tri-Tip

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Since I have a special guest coming into town tomorrow, I thought I should pull out all the stops and make some gourmet sandwich fodder, for a picnic on the beach. I settled on tri-tip steak, mainly because I’ve never tried cooking it before, but also because I have some good friends who serve tri-tip at their annual barbecue, and it always comes out good.

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In Tune

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Since I finally started playing the piano again after nearly two decades of not touching the thing, I decided that it was high time to finally get the thing tuned. (It was really out of tune…) Fortunately, the guy who used to tune our piano is still in business, so we called him up and scheduled an appointment. Tonight was the night, and right on time the doorbell rang.

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