Four-day weekend

Christopher and I and May are having a lazy four-day weekend. Of
course, after a month of bright and weirdly warm weekends, it's cold,
wet, raw, and threatening the dreaded "wintry mix" this weekend. Still,
we like winter and are only complaining because it makes our socks wet.

What have we done so far? Not a lot. Yesterday, we had breakfast at the Yolk
and got to meet our fry cook's baby -- Nicholas. Then we made a foray
into the burbs and came out only slightly scathed. We had accidentally
ordered twoPFDs for Dad's Christmas present and had to return one. So,
we thought in our blithe ignorance, we'd pop up to the newish Bean in
Burlington, return that, maybe swing by WilliamsSonoma and spend the gift card we had there, and be home in two hours.

HA!

Turns out just parking was a 30 minute exercise.
(We gave up and parked in the next-door lot.) Then we had to wait on
line fore over an hour in the returns line. We could have driven toFreeport
and the original Bean store with only an extra half hour. Finally, we
abandoned the store rather than spend the money there, had lunch at Not
Your Average Joe's, hit the mall v. quickly (didn't spend the gift
card) and got home six hours later.

This is why we usually avoid the burbs. We're never really prepared for it.




Today we popped in on the MIT Puzzle Challenge which our friend Denis Moskowitz (and his brother Marc) participate in. However, at 11;30 on Sunday, no one was there. SO I must assume someone won the bloody thing. Or is even 11:30 too early for non-parents? I have to track down the web site as soon as I'm done with this to find
out.

Then we went to Pandemonium and bought Witch Way To Murder and GURPS Biotech. Christopher is currently ignoring me and May both for the Biotech book. Then back home.

Mr. Crepe has opened again in Davis and there was much rejoicing. I've been... umm.... Let's just say that the owner recognizes me and May already and knows my preferred order. (Spinach, basil, & tomato with feta. Or chocolate, banana, and coconut for dessert.)

May's new favorite trick is to put the LEGO bucket over her head and scream wot listen to the weird acoustics. My daughter, the future genius.

More later. Be well.