Sunday Morning Stuff and Things
arts and leisure, books, dining and cuisine, everyday glory, family and friends, IKEA, movies and TV, music, science and technology, style March 21st, 2010Sunday – 21 March 2010
Good morning, Second Day of Spring.
It’s a bright and sunny day outside. I can hear birds chirping in the trees outside the sliding glass door.
Yesterday also turned out to be a very nice day, weather-wise. Low-to-mid 50s, with lots of sun and no clouds. In fact, it was nice enough to ride around with the sunroof open and the windows down a bit.
SaraRules and I went to Cottonwood Cafe for lunch yesterday. One of these days, maybe I’ll remember how messy their Mushroom Bacon Cheeseburger is before I order it. (But, it’s oh so tasty…) Â After lunch, we trekked south and west to visit Hobby Lobby. We wandered around the store for a bit; I found a couple of model railroading books that followed me home. Next stop: The Garden of Sweden. Miraculously, I walked out of there empty-handed. I was proud of myself. (Or is it that I was disappointed in them for not having anything that I couldn’t live without…?) After the fun part of the excursion, came the less-fun-but-just-as-important task of running errands.
After errands were run and there was no place else that we needed/wanted to go, we came home. SaraRules took a nap, I hopped on the nerd. After an hour-plus of surfing the Interwebs, I had a minor epiphany: I was hungry. I awakened SaraRules and we decided to get something to eat. We agreed upon Olive Garden, called Galadriel to see if she wanted to join us and we were on our way. We were seated inside of five minutes. Our server, Jaron, was pretty quick on the uptake. I had the calamari appetizer, Pasta e Fagioli soup and the Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara, washed down with a glass of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay. Everything tasted very good.
Back home to finalize plans for the rest of the evening. We decided to go bowling. We figured that we’d check out Karen Pullman’s Pro Shop and Bowling Center, which is pretty much just around the corner from where we live. Nice place. Fifteen lanes. Not nearly as chaotic as Sandy All-Star Lanes used to be. Jana and Chris also joined us. My games were off — two of them were WAY off: I bowled 102, 106, 165. I couldn’t close a frame in the first two games to save my life. Seriously. And I missed some/most of the spares by inches. However, Galadriel had the hot hand last night:Â 144, 141, 186. Yeah, she was all over it.
Today, I have absolutely no idea what I want to do, let alone what I’m going to do. SaraRules has the final performance of The Italian Girl in Algiers this afternoon, which means that I’m a bachelor from about 1230 until 1800. We’ll have to see what comes up.
Stray Toasters
- Last night, I had a dream with my paternal grandfather in it. In the… over twenty years… that he’s been deceased, this is the first time that I recall having a dream with him in it. Â Odd.
- 10 Essentials: Paul Smith
- We finally confirmed that the little girls who live upstairs are actually roller-skating in their kitchen. That fact is made even more scary/fascinating given how small the kitchen is.
- Mom-and-Pop Site Busts the Web’s Biggest Myths
- It appears as though Live+Press is working again.
- My Very Own Gagavolution
Including a link, for those who haven’t seen it, to the video (NSFW) for Telephone - Sequels, reboots bring sizzle to summer box office, by way of
- How did Lois afford that apartment anyway?
- Children’s Drawings, Painted Realistically
- Abraham Lincoln Reborn as a Vampire Hunter
- Bishops’ remains stolen in Cyprus
- And this is why I use Keynote:
And, for those who don’t get it: Edward Tufte.
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