I'm at the dining room table, 4:38PM. I just watched another Fairly Legal episode...felt like the first time I sat down all day. Before that I lifted weights, before that I made a cake (I need to get better at getting the round ones out of pans without breaking them) and frosting, before that...not sure what I did, just busy. Oh, laundry, too. I want to take a bath soon. I'll have to make sure S and N don't argue about Halo while I'm in there, though...nothing worse than being in the bath and getting out early to mediate a dispute.

Well, from what I can tell the Frank Lloyd Wright show was good but I saw it at about 400 miles an hour because of the boys. N was the only interested child. They had magnifying glasses you could use to inspect the drawings up close, then models of the drawings nearby, and N had fun looking at the drawings under the magnifying glass then figuring out which part of the model matched the drawing. The other two were in "can we go?" mode pretty much from the start. Oh well. We also went in the basement because the boys didn't see that last time. Oh! And the suitcase with the dreams is back on the floor. I got S to take a picture of me before cliffs of Dover, too. Maybe I'll make that my facebook pic. I need a new one. Anyway, we were maybe there an hour, tops. At least the weather is great...mid-forties and sunny, a near fifty degree swing from a week or so past.

This weekend has been fine. Friday night I crashed early. Saturday morning T was over at a friend's house, recovering from a sleepover, while N and M were at some boy scouts event. S and I hit Dockside Deli for breakfast (he doesn't want to go to Harry's, he finds old diners creepy) then read at Smith Brothers until the bright sunlight drove us out. We drove around the neighborhood until T was ready for pickup. The rest of the day was fine...I read a lot, watched Fairly Legal with M, and cleaned the house. Later M and I got dinner at the Milwaukee Ale House. I had to talk a waitress into giving us a good table. Apparently the restaurant takes reservations and the Valentines traffic was heavy. Well, the traffic was supposed to be heavy but the space was pretty much empty while we ate. We were early, though. I'm renewing M's Health magazine subscription, by the way, and I made her a cake, so, well, double presents. She got me headphones. I needed them.

Tomorrow the boys are off of school (not sure why) so I'm planning on hitting a coffee shop early, working until M has to leave, then hanging out with the boys until I need to leave myself for an 11:30 meeting. After that I promised a colleague I would go to mass, then I have a 1:30 meeting. Then I'll hang out later, I think, and get things done. I've been staying later at work lately. Often I'm hellbent on getting on the road not long after class ends but the calm, quiet hours past 3PM have been productive. Plus, the boys usually want to play video games right after school so there's no reason for me to tear ass home.

A few bullet points:

I'm enjoying Frazier's Great Plains. I probably won't travel much this summer but I'd love to get back to the Badlands or maybe even hit the North Dakotan set.

I'm on a big Velvet Underground kick.

I've spent less time online lately. That's been good, I think.

Ok, more later. The bath is calling. Good night.