general A few updates

Posted September 26, 2005 • Comments Off on A few updates

First, I just read one of the best newspaper retractions ever.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501103.html

Second, I had a really nice birthday weekend. The crabfeast was lovely and small, and the evening was breezy and outside and just delightful. The right people stayed late and it was really nice. The moment that sticks most in my mind is David and I playing a bizarre breath-powered version of tabletop football with a mini peanut butter cup foil wrapper for no reason at all. He beat me senseless.

I wouldn’t let Lisa buy truffles at $299.99 a pound, so she tried to do a cartwheel for last week’s New Thing instead. On the front lawn, well after dark. The cartwheeling did not go well, so Pat took her around the block on the back of his motorcycle. New Thing. Check. Then I did it too. We probably only got up to about 35 miles an hour, but it felt really fast. I seriously can’t imagine how anyone can stand to use a motorcycle as their primary transportation, especially as a passenger. It wasn’t particularly scary, and I didn’t feel unsafe; it just wasn’t particularly comforting. Not like riding in a car at all. Plus, where do you plug in your mp3 player?