Live from Opening Day

Its a beautiful day here in Japan. Ok, not in Japan. Boston. And its not exactly beautiful, it's really cold. Spring. Opening day. I just can't help thinking that when the games come back to Fenway it will be really cold.

As I write the Sox are up 6-4 in the top of the tenth. Hoping for an Okajima save to win this one and put it in the books (so I can get back to work). Keeping track of the game on the ESPN game cast thing was not working. So old stand by Yahoo sports works pretty well - just not the cool graphics of the game cast.

Go Sox!!

UPDATE: Sox win to remain in first place - thanks to Manny "the Man" Ramirez and newcomer Brandon Moss (JD Who?). Hot dogs and beer for dinner. Here's to an undefeated season!

Not in Denial

I'm not in denial over what happened Sunday, but I'm not going to talk about it (or read about it, discuss it, watch it). So instead I'll go over the food, which was a huge success. I thoroughly enjoyed the fish fry. (We took pictures and I'll post when I get around to it). Here's the menu:

• Shrimp (ok, so I boiled the shrimp, I'm easing into the whole fry thing);
• Mussels steamed in butter and garlic with parsley and taragon (still not fried - yikes! Some fish fry!);
• Tilapia fillets, Guinness battered and fried(hurray!);
• Scallops, same Guinness batter and fried;
• Fish sticks for the kids - although they ate mostly the shrimp and some mussels - next time I'll skip the frozen sticks;
• French fries (ok, so I went frozen here as well - maybe next year I'll get a fryolator and make my own).

I guess that was it. I had planned to do cole slaw and some raw veggies but got all wrapped up in the fry. I need a sous chef sometimes.

Accompanying this was a few pints of Guinness. We ended with grocery store bakery cupcakes with red and blue icing and little plastic footballs on them. The footballs were rings and we wore those as we watched [something] on TV.

It worked out great. The food was ready and consumed before [something] started and we were couch bound with brews and snacks by [something].

I really enjoyed it - the battering and frying. *Sniff* *Sniff* Do I smell a fryolator in my future...