Luckily, after this discussion, KBD cooked up some yummy chicken fajita thingies. ::burp::

Now, NCIS and then Castle.

(I don't know if the double-double is an actual thing or something this woman made up - it's like a littl roti sandwich with chickpeas and tamarind in the middle. I ate so many of those when I was home with Dylan on maternity leave.)

That sounds pretty much like a recipe called Doubles in Madhur Jafrey's World Vegetarian cookbook. The cookbook said it was street food from somewhere, but I can't remember where.

According to Serious Eats, a double is an actual Trinidadian street food:

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They are seriously nom nom nom.

ION, I have coughed myself into a splitting headache. I hate colds.

Haven't eaten much Caribbean food that's not Jamaican--we admit to haven stolen roti, pretty much, but the rest is all our own, honest. The idea of tamarind is interesting. We don't cook with it that much, although I could eat it all day in tamarind balls. Perhaps it's best had with sugar and not with chickpeas (ick).

Perkins--watching Criminal Minds tonight? Looks like eye squick. I'm going to have to not watch those precise bits.

Can I ask a dumb baseball question? Why is the bullpen not connected to the regular dugout? I would think the pitchers would feel sort of lonely/left out of the team. Because they sit with the rest of the team when they are pitching, right?

Had dinner with aurelia, and it was good.

My new winter boots arrived today, and dude, they are totally hardcore!

Why is the bullpen not connected to the regular dugout?

It's because they need enough room for an actual pitching situation, a mound and a catcher, etc.

Why is the bullpen not connected to the regular dugout? I would think the pitchers would feel sort of lonely/left out of the team. Because they sit with the rest of the team when they are pitching, right?

Traditionally the bullpen area where they warm up is built into the stadium so that it's further away from the dugout. And so the pitchers in the bullpen need to be close to those pitching rubbers and bases to get warm quickly.

As a matter of culture, bullpen pitchers prefer to be alone. They tend to be a bit squirrely as a bunch, and their jobs are usually high pressure so they have their own little sub-culture within baseball. Lots of practical jokes and stuff to keep them distracted and loose, whereas the dugout tends to focused and intense.

eta: xpost!

Also: mfy

I keep seeing this commercial. It's a Levi's commercial, with images of attractive young people running around and doing stuff outside, while a narrator recites, "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" I do not understand.