First of all, Casey is obsessed with drawer pulls and door handles. He can spend hours on the internet researching all the different kinds. I’m going to send him a link to this page so he can see the great pulls and handles you’re using in your kitchen.

Secondly, I am a huge fan of the laptop in the kitchen. Casey is even thinking of building me a shelf so that I can have a dedicated space for my computer in the kitchen. Also, I’m more careful with my laptop than cookbooks. I’m sorry to say that I’ve burned and/or melted a number of our really cookbooks by putting them down on a burner while I’m cooking and later turning on that burner. Oops.

I guess it’s one more reason why it’s important for me to cook with gas, since I never have this problem with a gas stove.

Casey’s door pull obsession is a familiar one. Both Zak and I notice little weird details like that, so, I reach.

I have slopped stuff on my books before, but not set them ablaze! That would be a new one. However, I have burned dishtowels on the stove before!

I think that a dedicated laptop spot is a great idea for a kitchen–they are so useful for recipe storage, data retrieval and internet searches that I think that any computer-literate cook could find a use for a computer in the kitchen.

How was the trip to Columbus, btw?