yucky II: the deuce

I have funny emotions with food. Food situations have a way of tugging at my heartstrings, maybe because it's such a personal craft and tied up with motherhood and providing and society and all that, and yet we've made it into this gov't regulated industry chugging along on conveyer belts, and all that. Well, Jill told you about the catering. I can't decide if it tugs at my heartstrings or not, but given enough information, here's how:

DECISION PROCEDURE

• If they did not know their catering food was bad, that is sad; it tugs at my heartstrings.
  
• If they knew their food was bad, yet continued to cater it, they are jerks; it does not tug at my heartstrings.

Either way my heartstrings did not get hit by a bullet, because we dodged one. This was supposed to be a slam dunk--but we were on the phone with new people as soon as we got back. It's not that the catering guys weren't pleasant! (See, heartstrings.) But Jill's assessment of the goop on the chicken was spot on. And we really could not identify that one dessert without documentation.

So we are looking for new people to make nicer food out of our grands and grands of dollars.

yucky!

We picked out a caterer over a month ago. The selection and photos of the food looked awesome. We were pretty much all set to put a deposit down on the caterer. The only thing that was stopping us was that we hadn't tried the food yet. On Sunday, we attended a mass tasting of the food at one of the caterer's many venues. Normally, I have a pretty wide range of acceptability for when it comes to food at events. When you prepare large quantities of food, it usually doesn't taste quite as good. I've accepted this after attending numerous weddings, proms, formals, etc. However, their food was just awful! You would think they would try a little harder to make it taste good since this is their "tasting." The lettuces in the salads were wilted and mushy. The chicken had so much goop on it that it was just gross. There was some question of what some of the desserts actually were. The hot food was on the cold side. The cake frosting for the wedding cake tasted like pure butter. Overall it was just gross! The only tasty food was the appetizers, salmon, and potatoes. I'm sorry, but if we're going to drop over 12 grand on food, it should at least taste somewhat decent.

So, all in all, this caterer was a bust. The plus side is that we didn't put down a deposit for the caterer! any suggestions for good caterers would be appreciated! Personally, I'm thinking we should just order pizza and be done with it! :-D

interblahg

CHICAGO

Jill and I have been drafting wedding invitations, walking on frozen beaches, crashing bachelorette parties with Mike, and deciding Rock and Roll McDonald's is a much better hangout than Excalibur. Today is our two-year anniversary!

ADRIAN BELEW

Dad and I went to go see King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew play a set of prog-rock power trio tunes at Sweetwater tonight. Pretty fantastic - small room, killer set, free. His band was a brother/sister team out of Philly, ages 23 and 21. I'm trying hard not to think about that because I ain't need a quarter-life crisis. Need to scrape the rust off my bass chops.

LÖVE

is a Lua-based game framework I've been playing with. It's got physics, particles, sound, all this good stuff. It works by giving you two callbacks per time slice - one where you update all your state and another where you draw everything. That threw me for a minute, because it means there's no good way to script a sequence of events - except wait, we're using Lua, we have coroutines! (These are blessed, fancy functions that can return mid-code, then start from that point next time they're called.) So I built sort of an actor system on this, in which the game entities live in coroutines and they all get stepped once per time slice, and now I think I've got something pretty usable for a post-MZX project.

music

The DJ has been taken off the do-to list!

We met with several DJ's. The first one was DJ company did mostly bar/bat mitzvahs and was way too expensive. The second one we visited was super cheesy and had way too big of a sales pitch. In addition, the second DJ wanted to talk about gross details of my birth before the daddy-daughter dance. (yucky). We finally met with final one that seemed the right amount of coolness and class (as much of those as a DJ company can have). They also were the cheapest, so that always helps. ;)

Now we must decide what songs to have at the wedding. Any suggestions would be great!

Jill :o)