Saturday, September 03, 2005
Ohmygosh I'm such a good chef. :D
I picked up a filet of salmon today at the grocery and tonight I cooked it up. I sauteed some videllia onions, cellery, bell peppers, and garlic with some salt in a little olive oil.
Then I put some butter in a pan and tossed in the filet on medium heat, adding some white wine to the mix and some lime juice. I let it cook on both sides, adding more lime juice and white wine. I added the veggies back in, tossed in some bits of dried cayanne pepper (I grew them last year) and grated some zest of the lime onto the whole deal. I ate it with some Carolina Gold rice and an ear of sweet corn I cooked in the husk in the oven while I was fixing everything else.
It was oh so good... Man.
NOBTS has set up blogger spots for the faculty, staff, and students to post their status on after this disaster. I was reading through looking for familiar names and saw a few. None of you who read this other than becca would recognize any of these.
But, Darrell Lindsey apparently has three kids now, I didn't know this maybe you did. Martha and Allan Bowland are safe, too and they have a child now, also, which I don't think I knew. Also saw a post from Boyd and Andrea Harrington offering to help out students.
Anyway, though I knew that everyone would be safe from the seminary (except for Chris Friedmann, who was part of the skelleton crew who stayed behind, and was evacuated on Wednesday) since they would have evacuated it fully it was still comforting to read postings from people I've known, and to know they are safe.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Links regarding Katrina
Man shoots his sister in the head... This was in Hattiesburg, where I went to college.
NOBTS moves to the Altanta based extension -- no idea how the campus fared. This is where I spent my 10 years in New Orleans.
This looks like the apartment complex Chris Lovely lives in, but it could be another as it's a common deisgn in that area, I think.
This is almost humorous, with the caption. Just not something you expect to see stated matter-of-factly.
The city I spent 10 years of my life in.
The I-10 bridge that connects Slidell and New Orleans over the lake.
Another shot of the bridge.
Wow...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin’.
I see bad times today.
Chorus:
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
Hurricanes always bring this song to my mind, probably because the oldies stations in Louisiana love to play this song when there is a storm coming. Back when Andrew came to New Orelans, the first storm that we experienced after we moved there, I listened to the oldies stations a lot, and so when we evacuated the city and headed north, I listened to this song a lot on my Walkman.
I decided to read the local New Orleans coverage of Katrina, going to the Times Picayune's website, nola.com, and WWL channel 4's site as well. Reading the stories posted there is interesting. I know the places that are mentioned. It's not like other storms where I can read about flooding to the rooftops in such and such a place, or how the windows of the buildings in a particular area of a downtown are all blown out and these palces have no meaning to me. I've been to these places. When they say that the Chevron station at Franklin Ave and I-610 is almost completly submerged, I know exactly where that gas station is and have gotten gas there many times on the way home from church.
There was a lot of destruction in the city. Holes ripped in the roof of the Superdome, the I-10 bridge over the lake is devistated (that's one of the main arteries into the city from the east), there are, or at least were, houses with water to the rooftops. The whole time I lived in the city the hurricanes skirted around it. They would head straight for it and veer off at the last moment. This one hit pretty hard.
It's also odd to hear about how everyone at the motel in Memphis was checking nola.com and the local TV stations, watching local news reports on their laptops. 13 or however many years ago Andrew came you couldn't do that.
My friends Jason and Jennifer got out of the city, heading to Texas with some friends of theirs. My friend Carey is apparently north of Baton Rogue. I don't really have contact with anyone else in the city these days, though I do hope all the people I know from days gone by got out and are safe.
I wonder how the seminary fared through this. I bet that one lone trailer -- the one we lived in and had to move out of so they could build a building where it sat but it continued to sit there even through this past winter, three years after the forced move -- is gone.
Nola.com's coverage
WWL's slideshow
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)