Rainy day recess

Well, this is more like it! After that November that came from who knows where -- San Diego? someplace sunny, anyway -- December has settled nicely into a more expected meteorological pattern: rainy, cold, and gray. Hooray for consistency!

Had a nice evening yesterday, meeting Soapy for pho in Ballard on the eve of his new gig. After dinner, we braved the wilds of the east side so Otis could get some supplies for her art workshop this weekend. It actually wasn't too bad, even though we had to follow our noses to the particular store: traffic, both vehicular and consumer, was only moderately heavy.

Today was low key. Otis had a couple of appointments; I stayed home, but real quiet-like, working on the second chunk of my last stack of assessing (got it done, too). We had a visit from NatDog in the afternoon, made a trip to Bartell's, and watched The Tao of Steve after dinner (it wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be).

Miscellany:

Oooh - I forgot to mention: On Sunday, I had a nice long video-Skype-call with Sachet! It was really cool to see her snuggled on her couch in Montreal while we caught up on news and stuff - we talked for almost an hour! She has a lot going on, for a bookworm doctoral candidate living like a churchmouse. I imagine she is in Paree by now - bon chance!

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Speaking of Paris, someone among our linguistically-inclined number can surely translate this cool song from this cool movie:

Tais-toi mon coeur - Dionysos
Uploaded by Dionysos

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T'other day, we didn't go to pho for lunch, partially because a pal of Johnbai's told us that the Cap Hill Than Bros had had some health department problems. Well, here's the tale o' the tape, as it were. Brrrr.