Breakfast today: Salt bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato and onion. This is one tasty combination, but so filling I only ate half of it all day. Lets hope the hungry gremlins in the office refrigerator don't find the other half.

Here's what half of a bagel and lox looks like when photographed using a Treo 700p smartphone:




That's fine, you say, but what does it look like when photographed with the still function on a Sanyo Xacti VPC-C6 digital camcorder? Wonder not:




OK - I know what you're thinking. Am I going to show you what a bagel and lox looks like when captured by a Nikon D50 SLR? Of course:




Wow - that's much clearer, no? We can even zoom into the delicious middle while individual onion chunks remain in focus:

Lunch yesterday: oddly shadow-laden chicken salad sandwich, this time from Park Place Gourmet on the south side of Farragut Square.

Weekend snack time: Guacachips ("made with real avocados"). Naturally, it is a great relief to know that my green-tinted tortilla chips are not made from imaginary or virtual avocados. They taste better already.

Lunch today: buffet-by-the-pound assembledge of vegetables and meat from SoHo deli. Ingredients include roast turkey, green beans, snow peas, watercress, a slice of chicken breast rolled with ham and cheese, diced tomato and onion, asparagus, straw mushrooms and those little miniature corn things.


I wonder if some people would think that $7.78 is an unncessarily high price to pay for a lunch one is going to eat at one's desk out of a styrofoam container. It certainly isn't in DC; the woman behind me paid $10.34.

Dinner tonight: DiGiorno Garlic Bread Pizza (Supreme). According to the Kraft Foods press release, this recently released product contains an "unforgettable garlic aroma [that] marries two consumer favorites," those two being, of course, pizza and garlic bread.

I'll say there is certainly a broad garlic aroma to the cooked product, though unforgettable might be stretching it a bit. First sexual encounter? Definitely unforgettable. That time I went rock climbing and almost fell twenty feet onto a particularly spiky rock formation? Sure, I'm not gonna forget that. The laboratory-produced smell of garlic on a $5.19 frozen pizza from 7-11? Not so much.



That said, though, it passes the basic tests for pizza that needs to be thawed: crisp crust, pleasantly melted cheese mixture and entirely acceptable sausage nuggets. You wouldn't obsessively cyber-stalk this pizza after a single taste, but one wouldn't kick it out of bed, either.

Breakfast today: toasted salt bagel with cream cheese and Starbucks Breakfast Blend coffee ("A blend of coffees from Latin America"). Bagel from the Daily Market around the corner.

Dinner on Sunday: Mexican chain restaurant grub. Platter o' vaguely Latinoamericano fare:



And the best possible side dish to Mexi-esque cuisine, Negro Modelo. These days, mostly called Afro-Americano Modelo:



And don't forget the unpriced tortilla chips and salsa, a tasty friend. Now, is it just me, or does that salsa fresca look a lot like raspberry jam?:

Dinner tonight: Thousand Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon (2003) and Utz Natural Sea Salt 'n' Vinegar Kettle Cooked Gourmet Potato Chips. Both purchased very nearby at my local wine shop.

A bottle of wine and a bag of potato chips for dinner? Pure decadence, the wags will say. But I say let them cluck their censorious toungues. Why not have robust red varietals and deep fried potato slices as an evening meal? I had french fries and bleu cheese dressing for lunch, after all (though I tragically forgot to take a picture of it).

Lunch, yesterday. Poorly-focused chicken salad and sour cream 'n' onion potato chips.