Had a weird hour or so this afternoon, where I couldn’t figure out what to do. Didn’t feel like a movie, didn’t feel like a videogame, had gone kiting earlier in the day, read all the usual websites, and the WoW server was down. Just felt sort of aimless. Didn’t feel like drawing/painting/whatever, reading, watching TV. Just sort of wanted to nothing, but also wanted to do something. Ended up … largely doing nothing. I think I took a nap there, for a bit. Maybe that was this morning. Day was sort of strange – ended up waking up relatively early, and taking Mobi and my new Prism Nexus kite out to the Berkeley Marina. Mobi got to run around a bit, I got to fly a kite. Fun. Chill, but fun.

Came home and fell asleep, which was nice – ended up falling asleep on the floor reading the chapter on breadmaking in Shirley O. Corriher’s Cookwise – quite an interesting book, sleep notwithstanding. Basically really covers in detail how to make bread (in the bread chapter) in explicit detail, from what each ingredient does, to the difference the order of operations can have. Unfortunately, if you were to follow her directions to the tee, it would take about … five hours to make a loaf of bread. Since I’m not really say, and industrial baker, nor am I home for a solid five hours where I can cook, most days, this pretty much makes the book academic. Still, it’s interesting reading, and I’m hoping when I get to later parts of the book, there will be recipes that are … faster. Most aren’t – meats get a lot of pre-treatment, whether brining or preparing a marinade or rub, the breads take hours to rise, and rise again… maybe veggies will be quick. Who knows.

Oh – and if you haven’t been to Angelfish, in Alameda, and you have the means to get there, by all means, go as soon as possible. Used to be a restaurant in SF called Kantaro, that was the best sushi I’d ever had, in or out of Japan. Angelfish is noticeably *better*. More expensive, too, but once a month or so? Definitely worth it. The quality of the fish is *sublime*.

Mobius is sleeping on the couch. He is one beautiful dog.