Weekend Round-up

My computer died. it happened on Friday. Not just the hard drive the major innards. (Insert scream here).
On Saturday, I cooked and entertained. I've decided that since cooking is my main non-work hobby, that I need to be doing some kind of entertaining on at least a monthly basis. This time we had our friends B the attny and M of Berkley. B and M are mega remodelers. They've had a house in Albuquerque that they were (are) working on for something like 15 to 20 years. They love Mexico and bought a place in a city call San Miquel Allende. B has been sending up dates for almost 6 months on the renovations they've been doing. Almost sounded like the money pit; especially the waterfall that came down from the 3rd story while they were working on the roof and their adventures with Mexican bureaucracy.
In additon to the Mexican adventure stories, M got her nickname from me because she matriculated in Berkely during the famous (if you're a boomer) 60's free speech and protest days. On top of all that she was one of the first employees and a place foodies will recognize, Chez Panisse. So she was regailing us with all kinds of stories of Alice Waters (who she knew personally) and Jeremy Towers. Any time I get praise for our cooking from M, I feel I'm getting high praise indeed. (Details on dinner in 'foodie' post). Much wine was drunk since B the lawyer has a good cellar and doesn't have much chance to drink it since he's in Mexico so much.
On Sunday I had a real good hike on the South Crest Trail, one of my favorite hikes. Tomorrow we buy the new computer and go through the hell of getting things transferred over. Already I know I have a problem because my Outlook back-up files are all empty folders.