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Beware of impending technical difficulties …

Brett’s going to a five hour opera this evening (five. hours.) which means he’ll be gone for about eight, so I’m solo for the rest of the day (it’s early afternoon here). Because I’m such a party animal, I’m taking advantage of that time alone to tie up a bunch of loose ends that came along with switching the host for this blog. Beware of impending technical difficulties. There may be old posts that show up on your feeds or in your email, or pictures that don’t show up in posts, or broken links, or any variety of scary things. My goal is to have everything as good as new by the end of the day. (Which means something like mid-afternoon Wednesday back in the States.)

Spending the next million(ish) hours working on HTML is really not as bad as it sounds – I have good music, an open window, a new cocktail recipe to test (meaning drink, obviously – and it’s a good one, so get excited for the coming post) and three seasons of Friday Night Lights (which I’ve never seen) on DVD to keep me company. I have plans for a big salad for dinner to counteract all the döner and schnitzel and everything else we’ve been eating, and a slice of sachertorte for dessert. (Yes, I see the contradiction in that sentence, and no, I don’t care.)

That said, I do wish I were still wandering around the Wienerwald, as we did for much of yesterday …

Wienerwald

 

Setting up shop

What I really want to tell you about is how I managed to cook this entire meal without getting a speck of anything on my shirt, particularly notable since our kitchen in Vienna did not come supplied with an apron (or many other things).

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And there’s certainly a lot more to say – about our time in Vienna thus far, about how amazing it feels to have our own kitchen space, and about all the little confusing things about going grocery shopping in another country. Or about how easy it is to burn things in the thin, aluminum pans that sorely stock our kitchen here, or how the stove really only goes down to medium-high, and that effectively using anything lower requires some MacGyver-like manuevering. But for now I have a few more important things to move on to. Read more