We bought a kilo of shrimp from the shrimp truck the other day. I seem to be talking about food a lot on here but frankly, it's either food or house design so enjoy the food.

They were good sized and very fresh although frozen. That's good, I don't want any shrimp that have been traveling around in the back of a truck in this heat and aren't frozen, even for 10 minutes. But they were and they were so fresh that it looked like their little eyes were moving. I managed to butcher them and peel them and de-vein them with the help of my wonderful shrimp deveining scissors. I did all this while Mimi watched a football game because if she spotted those eyeballs and the damn feelers all over the counter, she would have had peanut butter and jelly for dinner. I had to do some powerful psychological disconnecting myself to get it done but I'm pretty darn good at that. I can tell myself stories and pretend I'm somewhere else under almost any circumstances, I proved that a few weeks ago at the dentist. So there.


I added lots of garlic, butter, sliced fresh carrots - remind me to rave sometime about how carrots in Mexico taste so much better than carrots in the US - and some frozen french green beans from Trader Joe's. All this over rice - it was wonderful!

I've been having problems again with Blogger, or more like a combination of Blogger and my satellite internet connection. We had water in the lens on the sat arm and we cut the lens off and dried it out and put a bag over it. That's all good but we are right on the ocean and I think that the circuit boards or whatever is inside there are starting to corrode or rust. More specifically, the transmit part. We can surf the net and download anything but if an upload goes more than a few seconds, as in uploading a picture over Bloggers really slow software, it stalls and fails. I've started uploading the pictures myself which works most of the time, and then pointing Blogger to them. This is a kludge, especially since even the fast FTP program occasionally stalls as well. We were advised to take the whole thing apart, clean the guts and put silicone grease on the O ring and seal it back up. Not for the faint at heart or those who can't stand the idea of days without internet if something goes wrong.