obsessions

There are several things that I am obsessed with, but today we will only cover three.

These blank notebooks and journals. If there are any of these in a book store or gift shop, I will find them and admire them for a while, taking the ones that really grab my attention into my sweaty hands to turn over and open and check out. Do they have lined pages? What kind of paper? Right now I have a lot of blank ones, and a few that are full of notes from days past. Just the other day I opened one up from 2008/2009 and was reminded of some good and not-so good times. Why am I obsessed with these things?

This place. This is St. Roch's in New Orleans on St. Claude Street. We've been to a few of these new "Food Halls" (Perhaps you remember something called a "Food Court." Get with the program. The Food Hall is the thing now, baby.) in various cities, but I think this is the best one yet. It seems to operate as some sort of cooperative. Real plates (not paper) and utensils (not plastic). Bus boys / attendants to clear tables and refill your water if you like. And really good food. There's enough quinoa to satisfy those healthy hipsters and enough biscuits and gravy to make the rest of us happy. We are already looking forward to our next visit.

This. We've been working on our web presence and our social media stuff. Well, Mr. Beers has been working on this. You can place orders for good ol' deli grub directly from our website now! Maybe this is something everybody else has been doing for a while, but for us it's fairly new. Try it from your phone, tablet, or computer. It really, really works! www.wddeli.com