defrosting prawns

Fairly tiring day. Went through documentation for query meeting next week, noting down what I thought about the items in case I forgot in the meantime. ;)

Note; do not try stirfrying prawns (defrosted) with salmon again. Wrong texture and wrong flavour. Not bad, but not what I want from salmon.

Parcel arrived while I was not at home, and was taken away again because it was too big. I'll pick it up tomorrow or Friday. I bet that was the copy of Garth Nix's Drowned Wednesday which I've been waiting for.

Still, too busy to really fret about that.

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Being a professional investigator, as well as a professional wizard, I'd seen slobbering beasties before. Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have succesfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters.

I ran away.

-- Blood Rites, Jim Butcher

interesting annotation

While reading Jim Butcher's Death Masks over lunch, I came across a few lines which seems at first to provide foreshadowing of an event in book 6, Blood Rites:

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His dark eyes glittered with something ugly. "Little Maggie's youngest. You've grown up to be a man of considerable strengths."
I stared at him for a long second, shivering and startled into silence. My mother's name was Margaret.
And I was her youngest? As far as I knew, I had been an only child. But I knew precious little of my parents. My mother died giving birth to me . . .
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So why does this intrigue me, especially given the events in book 6? (Which I will not go into here so as not to spoil it for those who have not read it.)

Only that Nicodemus seems to be a person who likes to be precise in his words and grammar. I can't see him saying "youngest" when he actually means "younger".

That's all.

Hm, hm . . .