Author Archives: Ian

Scots Men

Hongying was amused by this article

“However, Scots men have acquired a few social graces over the past hundred years – they don’t belch in the faces of women they are married to, and some of them (so I’m told) even take their socks off before having sex. Nowadays, alibis for bad behaviour based on a deprived Scottish childhood are so commonplace that they’re ignored unless you can prove that you were breastfed by your father.”

Did I mention I love our new house.

We had a couple things in mind when we bought the house. It had to be bigger than Hongying’s old appartment, it would be nice if it had a basement, a 2 car garage and was close to a bike trail. It also needed to have good public transport links to get Hongying to her work in DC.

Now that we are living here I am loving the fact that we have a real kitchen where I have the space to cook. I have all the computers in a room away from the cat litter box. I can bike to work on the W&OD trail which is about 1/2 a mile from the house. One thing we didn’t realize was that we would only be a couple miles from a swimming pool which is also seconds away from the W&OD trail.

Oh and the cats like the extra space to run or sleep in.

Are we nerds or geeks?

We finished watching season 3 of Doctor Who last night. We stayed up past midnight just so we could watch the last episode. We were on the edge of seats after watching the previous 2 episodes and just couldn’t wait any longer. I need to order the first season of Torchwood which is due to come out on DVD in the US on Jan 22nd.

We also watched the last episode of Freaks and Geeks. If you haven’t seen it I recommend it. They only made on season. I guess another show that failed be dumbed down enough for US audiences.

US TV sucks right now, due to the writers strike, everything is a repeat.

Recipes

Thank you to all the people that turned up for our house warming party. As a thank you I have posted up some of the recipes so far I have added the Dahl Soup and the Vegetarian Lasagna. I will post the recipes for the pizza dough I used when I get home