Scatterday Saturday

Well, although it was a day that did its best to encourage indolence (yet another record-breaker), yesterday saw a lot of activity in these parts.

Fairly early, we joined Rye-N and Kris-10 for a scootering celebration of Kris's birthday. When we got fully underway, we had three shiny rental scooters, my dear ol' Basque-sheeped Ruby, and a big Honda sport bike cruising through Seattle with eight riders looking for touble, or at least coffee. We made some loops through the arboretum and down along the lake to Seward Park before heading up to Tamarind Tree for a late lunch.

As the sun grew warmer in the sky after a great meal, Otis and I had the leave the gang, which roared putted off towards Discovery Park. We swung through Fremont to stop by and see JJ, who was hosting the 85th Anniversary celebration of her Fremont Library, and had a nice chance encounter with MaryBee as well. Then it was home for TCB, and a dip in the poolette to cool off, and, quite frankly, a little nap.

We stopped off to catch up at the post-scooter party that was rounding off Kris's birthday, and then headed off to do some evening errands, but somehow wound up at a late showing of Prairie Home Companion, which we enjoyed but found ultimately unsatisfying.

Today promises to be just as full: we need to head up to LFP for some house-sitting duties, and I need to clock some miles on the pedal-bike (missing from yesterday's agenda) and maybe get some lesson-planning in. Doesn't look like it's gonna be much cooler today; let's just think about it as storing up sunlight for February.

Today's link: New Scientist had a report on the top ten robots in the wrold right now. You can read the whole article if you like, but you have got to check out this one video: the body movements of the autonomous dancing robots are amazing.