Various and sundry notes from the home office - Friday Edition.
1.) A bright yellow Eastern Goldfinch and his dowdy wife have been poking around my basil plants all day. I keep trying to take a picture but with no zoom lens it's not going so well. Great bird though and NJ is fortunate to have such a fine avian representative as its state bird.
2.) This "drought" or dry weather or whatever this hellish summer can be described as so far is responsible for some amazing tomatoes. I mean once-every-few-years-good tomatoes. My ramapos have such concentrated flavor compared to last years' soggy specimens. If you are not fortunate enough to have tomatoes growing in your yard, find a produce stand somewhere in monmouth county and get some, pronto. Also, my beets this year have tasted very concentrated. I guess I could attribute that to the drier weather, too.
3.) dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections just saved me about 1 hour of work on building out a server for a client from scratch. I think maybe I'll take that bonus hour and go over to Sickels' and get some cheese and prosciutto to go with my tomatoes.
