Sunday Afternoon

[nightdog_barks]

So it is 87 here (30.6 Celsius degrees). In mid-November. This is all kinds of wrong, so to remind myself it is fall I am looking at snow boots. A squirrel came to drink from the water dish on the deck -- I don't know what happened to this one's tail, but suffice it to say I call the little guy Stubtail.

About halfway through Joe Hill's Horns, and it is really pretty good.

One of the Meyer lemons on our little tree was ripe enough to try, and it was delicious! Milder and less acidic with surprising sweetness -- the juice tasted like a cross between a lemon and an orange.

Will be interested tonight to see if Almost Human is any good, and then Chiefs/Broncos, which should be a good game.

Yes, I am very boring today. Sigh.

Comments

[silverjackal]

the juice tasted like a cross between a lemon and an orange

^ This is why I miss the lemons from home (and from other warmer climes in general). I love lemons, and eat them like oranges, and the best are those which are tree ripened in a proper warm place, not picked too green and transported thousands of kilometers. I ate every shred of lemon that was garnish on any dish in Egypt for example, and the kitchen staff at my hotel realized how much I loved them and so gave me extra. *Pines after good lemons*

You are also emphatically *not* boring. Or if you are, than what of myself yes? ;D

[nightdog_barks]

Jackal, they are so good. I didn't know lemons could even taste like this! We are pretty much ecstatic over this little tree. So far all we have used the juice for is salad dressing and squeezed over fresh mussels, but we are actually excited about using them more. :D

Heh, I don't have a lemon icon yet, so I'll use my pretty green limes. *g*

[silverjackal]

I didn't know lemons could even taste like this!

Some people in all honesty do not taste it. There were some British tourists staying at the same guest house I was at in Aswan and they noticed my enthusiasm for the citrus fruit. (Food would be put out buffet style at meal times, and I would wait until everyone had taken their desired portions and then clear off the remaining lemon garnish before it was taken and thrown out when a fresh plate was brought in.) So some of them tried the lemons, and their reactions were "... It tastes like lemon..." and they were not enthusiastic about the results. My reaction "To each their own, and if you all don't care for it that means more for me.". This was when the staff started automatically putting any extra lemon on a side plate just for me. ;D

[nightdog_barks]

Well, the first time around, in the salad dressing, it was hard to distinguish. With the mussels, though, it was just the Meyer lemon, and we were (literally) licking our fingers (in AMAZEMENT).

[silverjackal]

The instance I'm citing was just the fruit as well -- fairly thick slices, too, that were placed on top of various dishes for ornamentation. Only the ornamentation didn't make it past me! I suspected it would be good and nicked some as soon as I was able, and then once I'd tasted it I surreptitiously cleared off every last slice I could get without being obvious about vulturing and depriving others of food. Not that the rest of the cuisine wasn't good -- I had the best squab I have ever eaten in Egypt, and that takes some doing as my Grandfather raised his own and was very particular about the quality of the birds that made it onto the table -- and fresh grape leaves are another entity to the canned and dried substitutes one get here, but the lemons, for this lover of the fruit, really stood out. I had not had such good fruit in over a decade (because of timing -- they were not optimally ripe when I was home) and I took every advantage. :)

[felis]

see if Almost Human is any good

So what was your verdict? :)

[nightdog_barks]

:D

I thought it was okay! But ... just okay, so I will readily confess my attention wandered and I found myself doing other stuff while it was on. I actually thought the second episode was better (so much love for the tiny toy giraffe), but my attention was STILL wandering. I do like it better than Agents of SHIELD, though.

[felis]

Heh, I only watched the pilot and found myself incredibly bored with the main guy, Urban or not. Dorian could have potential, but the world-building at large didn't really show many sparks of originality either I thought.

[nightdog_barks]

YES, THIS. I like Karl Urban, but yep, I didn't care anything about him. Dorian definitely has potential.

I thought there were sparks of originality -- the highway underpass lined with electronic advertisements was a nice touch, as was the tiny animatronic giraffe toy in the second episode -- but they're just that, sparks, and there's not enough of a seamless future-world behind them.

For example (and this isn't really a spoiler), the cops are talking to a "synthetic" (like Dorian) in the second episode, and Kennex (Urban, and where did they come up with his name?) keeps asking the synthetic "Where were you born?" And Dorian has to tell him that won't work, that synthetics don't have the concept of birth. And all I could think of -- hey, how long have synthetics been a thing in this world? A LONG DAMN TIME, FROM THE LOOK OF IT. So why aren't there GUIDELINES for how to talk to these beings? Shouldn't this world have classes, like in grade school, to teach kids how to interact with the synthetics? I mean, I realize we don't have classes now to teach kids how to talk to the toaster, but it's pretty obvious that at least some of the synthetics are much more aware than toasters.

AND ONE MORE THING. Wouldn't they have developed a more streamlined, less clumsy word than "synthetics" by now? OKAY I'M DONE. :D