I'm going to make up for a lack of recent news with a nice long one. How's that?
Lisa's brother and I went out to lunch today down in the loop (for yinz non-Chicagoans, that's the downtown area). He works there, I took the train in. We were recommended a taqueria that was supposed to have the best taquitos anywhere. Cool. Only the person making the recommendation didn't know the cross-street or the name of the restaurant. He knew what corner of the street it was on, and about how far away it was. Or so he said.
We found a place eventually, but it was not in the promised location. Brian thought it might have been the right one, since it was supposed to have a bar, which this place appeared to have. Walking in, we saw a bar, but almost nothing else. A smattering of people, a pool table, but no food anywhere.
Brian asked the bartender if they were serving lunch. She kind of squirmed. Brian asked again, this time in Spanish. She brightened up a bit and said yes, but they only had tacos, burritos, and tortas. We came for tacos, so that was fine by us. We both speak some Spanish (I'm probably rustier than he is), and we did just fine, got our food and enjoyed it.
I'm still not sure whether we went to the intended restaurant, though. The tacos were good, but not that good.
Peter Gabriel's new album Up came out yesterday. I didn't think I was going to be one of those people who buys it so soon after it comes out, considering I didn't even know about it until a couple weeks ago. And yet, there I was at a store today, shopping for a when it started calling to me. I buckled and bought it, and I don't regret it at all.
I don't claim to know a lot about him or his music, but this is a very good record. It was ten years in the making (which went by without any attention paid by me) and the results are worth it.
You can read a little bit about the album on Salon and Pixelsurgeon.
Along with working on web projects lately, I've been messing around with Applescript. There are some things about MacOS 10.2, in particular about Mail, that kind of annoy me, and so I've been trying to take some steps in the direction of fixing them. Unlike many of Apple's recent software offerings, Applescript does have some documentation, but it's not fully up to date and is not always helpful (a problem that plagues most developer documentation, in my opinion). As a result, I'm plodding along kind of slowly, but making progress. I'm hoping to have something done in a week or two.
For now, I need to finish up something Lisa and I have done for the next issue of On A Whim. What are you submitting?