sitting here in panera because we had to leave the house because it's full of painters all tearing down wallpaper and removing popcorn ceilings and prepping and painting. every time we take down a window treatment, my old man's like, are we saving this one?, and if i say, no, he says, where are we going to get the money for new ones, and if i say, yes, he says, yuck i don't like it and it won't match the new colours. it is this type of intelligent and playful banter that makes household jobs so fun. speaking of colours, the colour we're auditioning for the kitchen is called ash violet. i direct you again to sherwin williams's online site for a viewing.

this guy is politely holding the door for some young women to come into panera and the thing is that he is impolitely bathing those of us inside with cold air. you can see right there a tipping point between polite and impolite but he could not see it because the young women were wearing really short skirts.

skip ahead several hours.

i am now watching junior and my old man play wii canoeing. it's almost like real canoeing, only completely not. have you ever played wii? back in the day, we had the matchbox which was a homemade electronic game. when you are the progeny of an electrical engineer, you get homemade electronic games. later we got a pong, which in case you don't know was the first ever video game. then we got an atari which i don't remember ever using and as far as i know that was the end of the video game road, probably because we didn't play with them. i don't understand the appeal. do you? if so, please enlighten me. thanks.