my ineptitude

Sometimes it amazes me how I can be so technologically moronic in this fast-page, electronic obsessed age that I live in. I could try, now, to make a whole long list of things that I am unable to do, but I think it's just easier to say that anything with very straightforward, clickable directions, I can do.
Other than that, it's all a mystery.
If I can't restart, or click, then I'm pretty much done.
That said, I can:
Drive a stick shift
Cook most things (not so good with Risotto)
Read and comprehend lots of science rigamorole
Burp (after drinking Budweiser)

these are all items that i think may be mildly complicated for some people. granted, i can't fly a plane (annie) or build furniture (tamara and many others) or countless other things, but for some strange reason, those holes in my abilities don't bother me as much as some of my technological shortcomings.

think i'm going to have to put this to bed for the night. still have to take a shower and get organized for the morning. tomorrow is our first game of the season, and we looked pretty bad in scrimmage last week
uh oh.
so annie, i guess that's my response to your comment: we kind of bit it.

xo
alyce

ps- Red Hook was on the front page of the Easter Sunday New York Times April 16th, 2006! Queen Mary II was docked down on Pier 12 on Saturday the 15th, and there were tons of people, passengers, photographers, and cops around. Of course my father wanted to know why the cops weren't in "my neighborhood" I told him it was my neighborhood. I think he wants them to have a constant beat/patrol on my corner to prevent me from meeting my grisly demise.
he says "I don't know karate, but I know ca-razy!"

Traffic Light!

That's right, Van Brunt Street in Red Hook just got it's very first traffic light. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't just witnessed it with my very own two, marginally sighted, eyes.
It's on the intersection of Van Brunt and Bowne streets. I supposed it has been put in to help control the flow of traffic down Bowne Street, and onto the ramps for the BQE, but if you've ever driven around Red Hook, you might be skeptical (as I am) about the necessity of said traffic light.
I know that there are days when trucks abound on Van Brunt, and double-parking or construction has slowed the street to one-lane heaven, but to me that's part of the beauty of Red Hook.
It's slow, and who cares?

anyhow. Working from home some days allows me to witness my neighborhood in its daylight beauty, I hear the kids at recess playing games, inevitable screaming in delight or horror. who knows. I don't remember the playground eliciting shrieks from my own childhood, but I also don't have the best memory, so perhaps I did indeed scream with rapture during four-square games.

So tomorrow is our first official softball scrimmage, and I have to dorkily admit that I am uber-excited or some such variation of excited that would communicate extreme excitment. I suppose in my heart of hearts I am screaming with delight about softball, much as the small children across the street are right now as they drag each other across the playground, each with one foot in a plastic hula hoop....
what? seriously, that is what they are doing right now. Is this some official game that I am unaware of? In watching them, I can see that the exercise might be trying to elicit some type of teamwork, but it seems only to be causing bodily harm.
good luck to them.
and good luck to my softball team tomorrow.

xo
alyce

cast iron skillets and NASA foam

I took the plunge and bought a cast iron skillet. pre-seasoned, ready to go.
I spent a fair amount of time in the kitchen store, looking at sauce pans, comparing sizes, depths, and handle-action in the hopes of purchasing something that could go into the oven.
The sauce pans were all beautiful. I particularly liked the one with the silicone handle. Silicone is apparently all the rage these days in cooking implements. Silicone wisks, silicone brushes, silicone handles. Apparently it's a good material for more than just titties.
Does silicone even have an "e" on the end?
I don't know.

I also recently purchased a new bed. A knock-off tempurpedic or whatever type foam bed, and I have to admit that although I was very skeptical, I have had better nights of sleep in the past few days than I have in the past year or so.

today was beautiful weather in NYC, i actually went for a job, took my gimpy coffee table down to the wood shop to get the legs fixed, enjoyed the good-natured posturing of everyone needing to examine the table and give their two cents.
I don't know that my ignorance on woodworking has been at all alleviated, but it was fun to be down there.

so thanks Blogger, this is pretty easy, i guess I just hit the "Publish Post" key and I'm all done. Hoping to get some access to my softball blog, titled either "B61 Softball" or "redhooksoftball" not sure, but the season starts this week, and Jonathan runs the blog, and I have pictures to post!

ok happiness for the first post, hopefully there will be more someday. i am going to go eat dinner now

cheers,
alyce