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.