I would have loved Findlay Market at 10. I was a weird 10-year-old, though.

Oh, and Newport on the Levee has giant hamster balls that you can roll around in. Plus an aquarium and probably some other stuff kids might like.

Cool thanks! I saw Graeters in the freezer case of my whole foods last night! I didn't get any because i had donuts for breakfast and couldn't think of eating more sweet food at that point.

Update: the girls may now want to meet and dye their hair instead? Seems like the wrong choice to me as shopping will have way more potential for fun but hey, not my party.

When I was standing in line at a Burger King a while back some woman who had driven up from Louisiana started chatting with me, and talking about how that particular place was so well-run, unlike the ones in her hometown (where The Blacks couldn't be trusted to do anything right). I just turned my back and froze her out from that point on, but what I should have done was loudly point out that she'd mistaken me for a fellow racist and tell her to hop back in the bigotmobile and go home.

I just Googled a question that has been nagging me for ages--how the heck do those little slidey things on the refrigerator drawer do anything to affect the humidity? To my surprise, the concept is not to keep humid air out, it's to control the humidity/vapors being generated inside. I have learned something, and it makes sense.

Timelies all!

The Mondayness of today was not helped by having to get up a half-hour early this morning. (Gary has an in-town meeting, and was required to be there at 7:30. Which meant getting up at 5:30 to leave the house by 6:30. Meanwhile, I had to take the little guy to daycare, so I was out of the house around 6:45. There are two more days of this.)

The weather is beautiful here - melting much of the snow we got Friday.

Relatedly, I started packing for this week's Salt Lake City trip and after picking outfits, I decided to check weather.gov. Snow. SNOW! Now to repack.

Yeah, snow/rain for the next couple of days, sorry.

I called a plumber and am meeting them at the house tomorrow to scope out and get an estimate on what will likely be a repipe.

Depending on what it comes to, I may get another but these guys come highly recommended for this neighborhood.

I think that is adulting.

And then I will probably get the estimate and start sucking my thumb and rocking.

I'm dizzy again and kind of nauseated, and I assumed it was just because the sinus infection isn't totally gone. Tim suggested I take my blood pressure. It's 90-something over 70, which isn't technically low (I don't think), and certainly not dangerously low, but shit, for a Lang, that's low. My normal is around 130/86.

Other than caffeine, I'm not sure how to correct hypotension, and I don't really want to drink coffee this late, because then I won't be able to sleep. The internet says to elevate my feet and drink fluids.

I was thinking crystal meth would work. Alas, I am not a junkie.

Still, you guys, this is WEIRD.