The first week back at work of the year went pretty well. Sure there was a minor crisis or two, and I’m still feeling as though I’m running behind schedule, but I think overall it was a good week. And having a week off improved my mood and motivation a lot more than I’d have thought possible. It makes me look forward to being able to take some more time off again sometime soon!
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| Untied Noodles |
Friday we went to United Noodles for lunch. They have a good little deli there, though seating is in short supply, plus I got to shop for various goodies after finishing my tasty lunch. The best of the batch were some "Gourmet Butter" cookies made by Haitai, except they came in a little bucket and were just small biscuit-shaped cookies. Anyway, they were delicious. I’ll be buying them again.
On the home construction front, not much to report. Between work during the week, and enough other things going this weekend, it just didn’t seem like a priority. Besides, it won’t be until this Wednesday that the trash guys take away the last of the carpet padding, so I’ve got something of an excuse, right?
And that’s about all the news for now. But then this was the weekend that I was expecting would be the time to rest up from the holidays before the post-holiday parties and obligations begin, so I’m perfectly happy to have very little to report. And besides, I’ve got links for you!
- Now here’s a good headline: Conch Replublic Annexes Seven Mile Bridge. Excellent! [tcf]
- Mike Johnston did some Blogging on a Beautiful Spring Day, and hit the nail on the head. That’s exactly why I don’t have comments.
- This list of Easily mispronounced domain names has a couple that made me laugh. [kottke]
- They make it sound so simple: How To Be The Perfect Boyfriend. Well, there it is. [holy schmoly]
- Hey cool. Steveo’s writing That’s My Blog! again. [jr]
- Hmm. The Midtown Global Market Struggles, as they find that not enough customers are coming through the doors. I like the idea of free parking, but I think they could do a lot better just by publicizing the fact that they’re open 7am-8pm (I had to go to their website to find that, and was surprised to hear that they’re open until 8pm. [metro mpls]
- The new HP Z3100 is a printer which contains a photospectrometer and calibrates itself, and will automatically generate a profile for any brand of paper you put in it. That’s something we looked at about ten years ago at LM, and it’s darned nice to see that technology has finally caught up with our dreams.