Hudson Bay, Josef Mach, and Filet Mignon

     So I've had an alright off-day {how about you? comes automatically to mind} yesterday.  The kind where one wakes early and lingers over the course of two pots of coffee into the afternoon; scrolling through the news for anything interesting, a string of movies playing themselves out through the Netflix in the background (Superman II, Ransom, Johnny Dangerously, Revenge of the Nerds, Highlander...) while a rousing computer game is being played listlessly, or an article or two typed halfway and scrapped, or the inevitable thought that draws one to the Wikipedia.
     My thoughts of the day were on the Hudson Bay Company and Westerns (as a genre); pursuing the former led to a cool map and the knowledge that the company is still extant and run/owned by Americans as a sort of historical Eddie Bauer; the latter led me to the subgenre of the Ostern, a soviet-era Western (Stalin's favorite genre, surprisingly) which bucks its American counterpart by vilifying the settlers and portraying strong, defiant Natives.  The more accessible of these (again, via the Netflix) are the films of Josef Mach.  I've dropped two onto the queue, so we'll see how it goes eventually.
     Finally the day was capped off with a grand meal of filet mignon, whipped potatoes, and frozen yellow corn (meal fit for kings, that!).  Earlier in the day I had placed the four filets into a freezer bag with a considerable amount of butter, freshly crushed garlic, and just a touch (just a touch, mind) of the Worchestershire.  Lop that back into the fridge, and by sixish you're set and ready to go like!  I sauteed some onions and Portobello mushrooms for a couple of minutes, removed them, then put down the steaks on a HI heat for a minute and a half per side; crank it back to a MED setting and cover with the mushrooms etc for a few more minutes.  And voila! ready to eat {and damnably delicious}.
     End it with an evening at the bars, and that is a Rudian day off.