Leaving town isn't so difficult when you're lucky enough to have friends who hold good-bye parties for you. Tonight my friends Amy Rudnick and Ben Hillman had me and a few others over for a tastilicious Moroccan chicken dinner. Robin's delish shrimp appetizer, my parsnip puree with sauteed Brussells sprouts, and BZ's intensely intense flourless chocolate cake all contributed to a tasty evening. Hostess Amy and guest Jonathan are smiling at the thought of all that good food. But I think some friends are saying "Enough already. Be gone." Well, okay. Tata
P.S. My friend Steven Haas spent many hours programming my computer with the latest Garmin maps so I could download them onto the Garmin for my car. And then I spent many hours on Sunday creating "waypoints" so I could easily get maps from here to there, wherever I was.
Yesterday, though, when I took the Garmin to the car, it was stuck in Waukegan Illinois, and nothing I could do would let me out of there. Much gnashing of teeth. But this morning--very very early--Steven came over to see what the problem was. Diagnosis: dead battery. Hmm. Silly me.
