Wow, has it really been two months since i've updated this thing?

Well, things in my life have been going in odd directions, so I guess I can blame circumstances with keeping me a bit off the radar.

For a while, I was on a job hunt.

I didn't lose my job, but I felt like I was just getting stagnant there, and frankly, it was showing.

I don't really know. It's hard to say. I was laid off last year about this time, and frankly, I have the least expierence in the kitchen. So...I figure i'm more expendable than some of the other guys there. I spoke with a few of my chefs, and they said that I have nothing to worry about, so that's good news for me.

In the mean time, I hate my first course plate that I have to put out every night...lol. It's kicking my ass. Uni wrapped in Medai or Halibut, sea beans, oysters, watercress, kumquat puree, watermelon radish, kinome (a little minty japanese leaf that makes your mouth minty and numb) and an oysters sea stock foam.

85 times a night.

Yeeeeesh.

Anyway, on a side note, be nice to the people that server and make your food. We had some Silicon Valley assholes tell our wine expert (who is a GREAT guy) that it isn't anything to be ashamed of that a person of his status would send his children to public school.

Seriously, if I had know that they said that, I would have picked my nose right before I plated their oysters. Try telling one from the other, you assholes.

So, moving on...

I moved out of my house in Healdsburg and in to a new place in Windsor. It's a little different, but I really like it. And there is a beautiful and sweet Golden Retriever who likes to sleep with me. Which, i'm sad to say, is the only thing that's sleeping with me at the moment...lol.

Anyway, that's pretty much all that is going on right now. I had a whole long diatribe written out, but Firefox decided to update itself and restart. While I do appreciate it opening all my tabs back up, it would have been nice to have it actually keep whatever was in said tabs! It's sort of like someone finding your backpack and giving it back, but keeping everything inside of it. You know?

Mmhmm.

I dig the new Pearl Jam song. Been a long time since i've actually listened to anything of theirs and thought that I could listen to that again. So, here it is. Oh, and "V" looks like it's going to be a really interesting show. It's a shame that the chick that plays the V's leader (who happens to have been Anara, the exteremely beautiful concubine on one of the greatest shows ever, Firefly) cut her hair so pixie-short. Long curly black hair is just...fantastic on some chicks. Wow.

Oh, check out the new 30 Seconds to Mars song. That's pretty cool as well.

Anyway, here is the PJ song. It's quite beautiful.

Just Breathe by Pearl Jam

Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Oh I'm a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they've got none

Stay with me...
Let's just breathe...

Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don't wanna hurt, there's so much in this world to make me believe

Stay with me
You're all I see...

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me

As I come clean...
I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would save, oh no

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave...

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah...

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side...