Lynne Cod and The Petterino Peppers

On August 12, 2025, I wrote that I had been staying in Crescent CIty with an old college classmate. The day before I was hard pressed to finish writing because my host and his guest were really gregarious and there was a lot of crosstalk, especially on how preoccupied I was with writing. However, by the time I was done they were really deep into making lynne cod and the petterino peppers and rice really made it good. I got photos and we texted with people living in another part of the state.

We did this game where we drew pictures and wrote poems and I messed with everyone by mimicking everyone else’s responses. We also did a blind taste test where we had two shots and each of us had to guess but we messed it up and I got two rye whiskies and another person got two scotches. As we slowly started to nod off I ended up talking about an ex-girlfriend too much.

in the morning of the day that I wrote this, the both left for work and I slept until 10 o’clock. When I woke up I “worked from home” and made myself some granola. Later I had an avocado and egg bagel.

I called my brother to confirm that the my kids were doing all right with him at his school in Oregon. We discussed the week. I did housework. When my host returned, I was looking at the surf out the window. He took me to the house which he had purchased only a few days before across the street. Then he took a nap while I was writing in my notebook. I made myself a moscow mule.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.