Saturday, July 7, 2012

Unskewered shish kebab

The ninja grilled a nice shish kebab tonight accompanied by roasted garlic-rosemary potatoes. Shish kebab shown here un-skewered. I paired it with a 2010 Sonoma Zinfandel.
The meal was delicious! Tasty end to a worthwhile weekend day. I started with 3 sets of tennis myself, then watched Serena Williams win the Wimbledon Final, finished some work and then had a great workout at the gym with my new trainer, Luke.

My next task is to prepare my speaker notes for Toastmasters. The meeting is Monday night. I'm to lead the Table Topics portion of the meeting.

My chosen theme is "Song Lyrics". I've talked before in these pages about my affinity for lyrics. That affinity is long-standing. As a college Sophomore, I took a Poetry and Drama class to satisfy one of my Literature requirements. The teacher was quite hip. He compared classic poetry and plays to current popular music and film. I wrote two papers in the class, one analyzing a Van Halen song from the 5150 album and my final paper analyzing the Jimmy Dean hit "Big Bad John". I made an A in the course.

I won't use either of those songs in my discussion on Monday. But I may tell the same story! I'll report back about how this goes.