I dated a woman who divided Italian restaurants into Red Sauce, White Sauce and Fish.

"What about risotto?" I asked.

"That's different."

As it turns out: lots of regional variation in Italian cooking.

As a general rule of thumb, Northern California tends to have more Northern Italian type food, and the East Coast tends to have more Southern Italian type food.

I had pear-cranberry pie this afternoon! So now I have tasty proof of the existence of pear pie. Which appears to be very filling, as I wasn't really hungry for dinner.

A laptop desk that fits on your steering wheel: [link]

The comments are hysterical -- one of my favorites:

I read some 4 and 5 star reviews by those who used this device successfully to change a baby while driving. On that basis, I bought one. I put my baby on it and drove for over an hour. It did not change. Same baby. I am glad it worked for some people but I will be returning mine. (The steering wheel desk.)

As it turns out: lots of regional variation in Italian cooking.

Heh. Yeah. Unified Italy is younger than the United States.

I discovered RSS feeds only this week, ita, and I'm all OMG.

Being out of work is really improving my techgeekery, which isn't high, but still: I've started a blog, gotten hooked up with RSS feeds and switched my browser to Firefox. And if I didn't have to have Windows to run my iTunes, my techgeek BF would have me switched to Ubutu.

I also worked on job applications, cleaned and organized my home office area, and made this week's grocery and menu list (which include Tday, so extra foody.)

There's this poster up at work encouraging coming out at the workplace. It has thumbnail pics of people that did and apparently felt better.

I'm sure this is coming from a good place, but it feels icky to me. Like it's putting the onus on the gay person rather than emphasizing creating a safe environment in which the person feels comfortable coming out at work. Probably not articulating it well, but I know I'd be annoyed by such a poster in the workplace.

I'm sure this is coming from a good place, but it feels icky to me. Like it's putting the onus on the gay person rather than emphasizing creating a safe environment in which the person feels comfortable coming out at work. Probably not articulating it well, but I know I'd be annoyed by such a poster in the workplace.

That's the vibe I get too.

My first thought on "lesbian evangelist" was that this woman is a lesbian and Evangelical Christian, which might be an unusual enough combination for her to feel like coming out about both.

bon bon, was it Alessio? The one nearish us is Vitello's, which is where what's his name Robert Blake shot his wife (that IS Old School!) but it's mostly delish -- though heavy on garlic.

I have 2, maybe 4, hours of work to do this week. Which means I should just get it done and get on with my life, but simultaneously means I am completely unmotivated to get started.

I feel like some groundwork has been laid prior to my arrival about making the environment a hospitable one to come out in, or so they think. There's a GLBT employee group, the aforementioned books in the lunchroom, etc. I can only imagine that there was some cultural push sometime in the past.

I have no idea how successful it might have been. Just that I've never been anywhere where out and work seem to come up together this much.