The weather has been largely wet all week, mostly at night. There was even a thunderstorm alert for SFO although nothing we could see or hear.
For Valentine's Day, I bought Rich and myself a box of Joseph Schmidt truffles (don't eat them all at once :).
Mezzaluna had her annual vetdoctor appointment this week. That was amusing, as often. (I was amused; the vet was amused; I don't think Mez was amused.)
Long day at the Job on Wednesday. I had a "seminar" that went until 1:30, then I was waiting for an engineer to get free to talk to me. I never did have lunch. It turned out when I got home that Rich hadn't had lunch either so we headed into The City to a favorite place that fills up quickly.
We had a moment of financial embarrassment after dinner. Rich reached for his wallet and it wasn't there. The bill was $42 (there were three of us) but I had only $37 and our friend had no cash. Oops. Rich remembered pulling his wallet out of his pocket earlier in the day when he had to pay for parking and sticking it beside the seat. Unfortunately, that was in the other car. Then I recalled that there should be an emergency twenty in the car we'd driven. So Rich went back for the car and what-ho, we were saved.
Better yet, when we got home, Rich found his wallet safe and sound on the seat of the other car.
The hot tub heater element went out this week. That's no fun at all, especially when you discover after 11 pm on a chilly rainswept night. Brrrr. Rich has been hunting sources for hot tub heating elements.
I signed up for newsisfree.com . It's not quite what I'm looking for. I want to specify topical areas as well as feeds. But it's an interesting idea. Of course, the question is, will I read it?
I also subscribed to DailyINK (King Features syndicate comics by email). Now I can get comics from the three major newspaper syndicates.
I managed to break my email rather badly between Friday night and Saturday morning, corrupting my Inbox on the server somehow and causing everything that wasn't spam to bounce (the spam was deleted). Sigh. It took ages to fix because I didn't know what I'd done to break it. I seem to be back on the air now.
Rich went up to visit friends in the North Bay on Saturday and brought back half a dozen cans of weird Asian sodas. We tried the "Basil seed drink". It was… odd. Sort of syrupy. Honey-sweetened but did not taste like honey. The "basil seeds" were each surrounded in a little bubble like a tapioca. Most weird. Weird on the tongue. Weirder still when poured into a
glass! It looked like fish eggs or tadpoles!
Sunday night we went up to Barnes&Noble after dinner to look for a book I'd been waiting for (supposedly it came out on Feb. 15). However, when we got there, the store was playing a Frank Sinatra album and I really don't like that music. It rater upset my concentration to the point where I couldn't remember author or title of the book I had come for (and needed to leave the store right now).
I don't care if some employees say it drowns out customer conversations; I really despise "background music" in stores. If it causes your customers to leave before they've finished browsing (and buying!) what purpose has it really served?
After we'd left and I could think clearly again, I remembered the title. I called after I got home and ordered a copy (it wasn't in stock).
This week I read Hell of a Dog, by Carol Lea Benjamin. It was actually third in the series (I skipped the second by accident) but that didn't really matter. It's a good series.
In between and around the rest, I've had plenty of naps and 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 email from my mom.
Onward and Upward.
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