Current mood:	pleased
Current music:	Girls & Boys -- Blur

Dinner party
I am becoming quite an expert at throwing dinner parties. This time around I had the pleasure of having 4 people (Kaleb, Jenn, Chris and Jeff) over for a jointly cooked (Jenn and I) meal. Jenn is a professionally trained cook who now works for allrecipes.com and she graciously offered to cook a birthday meal for me (this was back in October). I knew what I wanted but I thought it would be best to share it with other people, as it would be the same expense no matter what. Sooo, Jenn and I spent the better part of Saturday cooking for this dinner and then eating it with the three boys. I made some octopus salad, I had never made any before and it turned out to be very good (other people's comments, not mine :)). Jenn on the other hand made halibut with paprika, plus saffron rice with cashews, grapes and honey. For dessert, she made my favorite pie of all time, the triple coconut pie from Dahlia Lounge (Tom Douglas' cookbook has the recipe in it). After two bottles of wine and all this food, we were all quite full.

Afterwards, Chris and Jeff went to Manray with a Republican Spokanian friends of theirs, and Jenn and I went to the Baltic Room to see Dina Martina. It was quite a short show but fun nonetheless.

I am getting rehooked on Alpha Centauri with its Alien X-fire expansion pack. If anyone would like to, we can play head-to-head over the internet, let me know.