Sunday, March 26, 2006
Catch-up Ball: An Alloy of Work and Play Makes Chuckles Nigh Indestructable
It’s been a while since I just caught you all up on things. Let’s give that a try.
Zach seems to be over his sniffles, which is a friendly, benign word for his two-week transformation into Mt. Snotuvius. I stayed home with him on Thursday so he wouldn’t glaze the other kids in day care. He hasn’t been sleeping very well lately either, but at least he’s eating like a champ. A tofu-loving, lentil-sucking champ in a bib with a zebra driving a bus. Makes you wonder what kind of champs we’re minting these days.
Because I spent Thursday at home, I got to spend Saturday at work. That was one of those “better to do the right thing” situations and in retrospect I’m glad I went. It was a bit of a pain to be there though, palliated mainly by my heading straight over afterwards to Chez Lorson for Big Spaghetti Dinner, which I’ve been excited about for more than a month. The spaghetti was actually normal sized, but there were rashers of sausages and talus-slopes of meatballs and more than a gallon of rich, heavy valpollicella-laden sauce, and sugar cookies for the kids to press and bake and Ace Cafe Happy Sandwiches (or “death patties") for the grownups - slices of poppy-lemon pound cake, drowned in marscapone and toasted pine nuts, and then drizzled with chocolate sauce. With the cheeses and olives as appetizers first, I truly ate beyond my own capacity and didn’t stay up long once I got home.
And that leaves today, Sunday, whereon we’ve done some laundry and taken a nice walk in the Presidio, as we did last weekend. In fact, to make up for the lack of substance in this post, here’s some of the photos I took there. Enjoy, and you can expect a normal essay or something soon.
That’s it for now. Oh, but what do you think - will Evite suffer the same fate in Latin America as the Nova did? Discuss.
