Hi, all is well. A long time ago I started gradually moving more or
less over to alt.support.diet.low-carb while having less time online.
This year my girlfirend moved in with me and I went 6 months to UC
Davis, where the little time I had online was spent with my girlfriend
and a little on the diet NG.
I didn't get to meet Tammy, but I met Christine Dabney and Carol and
Crash.
In Davis I lived in a house with 2 women (for most of the time - the
last month I and one of the others moved to another similar home, where
2 guys were living), who didn't use the kitchen much, so I had it
almost to myself. They were surprised to see a person spend time on
cooking! It was an interesting experience to do the food shopping in
California. ChrisD showed me the tricks in Berkeley (much too late,
though). The Spanish table rocks! I do mainly mediterranian cooking
these days - my girlfriend lived in Spain for 10 years. My home in
Davis had a rosemary bush, a lemon tree and a fig tree.
When I got home I've been busy going to conferences, writing papers to
present at them and doing the research to write about. I've been to
Verina and Italy (I ate veal's brain, yuk! And horse
steak/stew/carpaccio and sausage, yummy!) and Leuven in Belgium (they
certainly like their fruits on savoury dishes).
Plus, my girlfriend is using her computer and the internet and I only
use it at work, where I haven't been able to use newsgroups (until now
that google features newsgroup activity instead of just archiving
them).

Now, who knows how to make the kalamata olive sourdough breads they
make in Berkeley? I tried to make my own starter, but it seemed to be
mouldy instead of bubbly...