I always used to say, “statistics can prove anything that you want from your data”. Yesterday, I heard a more elegant way of saying the same: Data, when tortured long enough, will confess to anything.
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Birds of the outback are back at Mystic Aquarium this year as well. We went for a member’s preview yesterday. Kids had a lot of fun like last Summer and we have a lot of arm and shoulder pain from lifting the kids up to feed the birds. No — we were not feeding our kids to the birds, but they were holding sticks with seeds stuck on them for the birds.
I am sure we’ll be back to the aquarium many times before the end of the season for the birds to go back. We have made good use of our aquarium membership. Must have made at lease one trip every month ever since we moved here last July and bought the membership.
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Last week, our old friend, Shailen came to visit us from Oxford, England. He stayed with us for four days and went to Yale for a conference over the weekend. We chatted and chatted for hours and ate a lot of good food. When we have guests over, we usually spend a lot of time cooking at home (which we enjoy). But, Shailen being omnivorous, we decided to go out and enjoy some restaurants in the area. We get magnificent seafood around here.
Tuesday: Rice Spice Noodles — Thai food with seafood
Flanders Fish Market — we ate 3 pounds of steamed mussels and clams
Wednesday: Village bake house — sandwiches; had my favorite tuna melt
Liv’s Oyster Bar — Shailen and I ate 3 dozen raw oysters, clam chowder, fried calamari, etc.
Thursday: Frank’s gourmet grille — diner-type food. ate fish sandwich and soup.
Shailen made salmon risotto at home
Monday: USS chowder cup III — seafood. had a great fried fish sandwich and awesome fresh coleslaw.
V made Shrimp at home.
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Behold the power of dollar cost averaging. Over the last six years or so, I have been investing small amount of money every month in various stocks and ETFs. I have sold some stocks just a few times, but mostly I have been adding to my positions slowly. This portfolio used to have big-time stinker like Enron, but not anymore.
Even after the recent downturn in the market, my portfolio hasn’t gone into red. Only 2 out of 14 stocks listed here show a very small loss. Click below on ‘more’ to see the portfolio. These days, I have been adding to FWLT and EPI.
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The caterpillars have been busy eating and growing over the last few days. On Saturday, they climbed up to the lid of the jar they call home and started the process of entering pupal stage.
By Sunday, two of them (ones on the right) had turned into cocoons.
This morning, all of them have turned into chrysalises and the fifth one is hanging upside down. By the time we get home, they’ll all have completed this next step in their life cycle.
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As I bit into my first mango of this season, the sweet taste brought back a ton of good memories of eating huge amounts of mangoes. Last year, some friends had told me that import of हापूस mangoes was allowed in US. But, I never saw them in the stores. This season, V found them at our local Indian store last week. They were expensive (>$2 per mango), but are definitely worth the money. They should get cheaper as we get into May.
My last mango season in India was in 1993.
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We are raising ‘Painted Lady’ butterflies this year, too. The caterpillars came in the mail last Saturday. They have been eating a lot and growing very rapidly.
Me: Ashwini, do you remember how the caterpillars turned into cocoons and then butterflies last year?
Ashwini: Yes. It is called metamorphosis.
I wasn’t sure if she remembered that word. But surely enough, she did.
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As it gets warmer and warmer, Adit and Ashwini are very excited about the fact that more and more birds are coming to the birdfeeder on the deck.
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