thoughts about a(n upcoming) dinner party.

1. having friends over for dinner is a good excuse to buy several types of good cheese. some items, in plenty, are too decadent for solitary consumption.
   
   
2. one guest has repeatedly offered to make something. in retrospect i should have let him make the salad. in conversation and in email, he's brought it up ..
   
   as for why i didn't, he called me (less than an hour after emailing me) about whether he should bring salad. i was at the grocery at the time and had just bagged a head of green-leaf lettuce, as well as other sundries.
   
   he's on baguette-&-red wine detail, now. hopefully he isn't offended.