The weather was been nice last week although there's been a storm in the Pacific – I kept getting Coastal Flood Watch and High Tide warnings from the weather service.
We did a Perl & Egg Rolls SIG meeting (Perl programmers meet for Chinese dinner) in The City. Good food; nine people. We adjourned for ice cream afterwards (my fortune had said that "joy and contentment lay around the corner" 🙂 Rich and I split an "apple pie sundae" – apple pie fillng/topping (heated), pieces of "crust" (like shortbread, two scoops of ice cream. yummm. We could make that at home some time!
I had another dental appointment, this time to get the cavity filled ;-( I do that under nitrous. With the noise-canceling headphones and the iPod tuned to my favorite Air Pudding, it wasn't tooo bad. It was kind of funny though; this was the first time I'd used the iPod this way and I wasn't sure of the controls. Always before I've used it via iTunes through the desktop interface!
After the dentist, I went across the street to Pet Club for cat crunchies and litter. When I got to the checkout with my 80 lb (4 bags) of crunchies and my 144 lb (8 bags) of litter the checkout guy said "Um, do you know we have a customer limit now of 2 bags?". WHAT?! He started backpedaling. I don't know if he was afraid I'd walk out or make a scene, but he rang me up in two transactions.
I came home and wrote a strongly worded note to the store manager. A 2 bag per customer limit on kitty litter?! What were they thinking?!
I bought a poster that starts "Every cat lover should…". I had to rearrange some things on my office wall but I hung it where I can see it. I don't personally know `the look that says,"I was going out anyway,"' but I do
know the look that says "I meant to do that". It's probably a similar look.
Saturday was my birthday. It's fun to have a weekend birthday (although it's also fun to have it on a weekday because I always take that day off). I celebrated by making the bed (with help from Raven and Bebop) and taking a nap 🙂 For dinner we went into the City to a favorite restaurant; we also did a little shopping before and after dinner. The weather was nice, dinner was tasty, we found a convenient parking place and a new store with nifty stuff. We each got a couple of new t-shirts at a favorite store. It was a pleasant evening.
This week I read 7 Days and 7 Nights, by Wendy Wax (a fun romantic comedy) and Troika, a spy novel by David Montross. I first read the latter when I was in High School; I finally decided to try to find it again and turned it up in a web search on alibris.com. There are at least three novels with the same title; I guessed I was looking for this one based on the publication dates (and I was right).
In between and around the rest, I've had almost enough naps and plenty of snuggles with the cats. There have been good meals and interesting conversations with Spouse and friends. I've had a few chats with my Dad and exchanged email with my mom.
Onward and Upward.
Slightly Off KIlter 