in which a weekend was had
Jul. 12th, 2009 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesAs far as birthday weekends go, it was a very nice one.
On Friday night I did in fact take myself out for dinner at Lineage, where I had the most expensive meal I've ever had, but it was worth it. Arugula salad, followed by sea scallops, followed by blueberry bread pudding (which arrived with a candle in it because I mentioned it was a birthday dinner).
Before I went to dinner, I went to Brookline Booksmith and bought Schott's Original Miscellany, which I've looked at in bookstores three or four times now. I love it, partly because it's so random. (Just for instance, page 81 consists of a list of decimal prefixes, a list of the 12 labors of Hercules, and a list of Santa's reindeer. You can also look up how to read cattle brands, how a symphony orchestra is arranged, the list of English monarchs from 1410-present, and the Braille alphabet.) The Original is from 2002; I looked at the 2008 version, but it's arranged by subject, and less fun.
Saturday consisted of a trip to NH, involving seeing Public Enemies in Merrimack. They got it mostly right, history-wise, but the way they handled the plot came out somewhere around pretty good. I'm glad I saw it, but I don't need to see it again. Oh well, it was a good day anyway, and I didn't have to wait at all for three of the six trains involved in getting there and back. And I got home about two minutes before it started to rain HARD, last night.
Today I should've done a lot of things I didn't do, but I didn't do anything I really shouldn't have done, so it all comes out even.
On Friday night I did in fact take myself out for dinner at Lineage, where I had the most expensive meal I've ever had, but it was worth it. Arugula salad, followed by sea scallops, followed by blueberry bread pudding (which arrived with a candle in it because I mentioned it was a birthday dinner).
Before I went to dinner, I went to Brookline Booksmith and bought Schott's Original Miscellany, which I've looked at in bookstores three or four times now. I love it, partly because it's so random. (Just for instance, page 81 consists of a list of decimal prefixes, a list of the 12 labors of Hercules, and a list of Santa's reindeer. You can also look up how to read cattle brands, how a symphony orchestra is arranged, the list of English monarchs from 1410-present, and the Braille alphabet.) The Original is from 2002; I looked at the 2008 version, but it's arranged by subject, and less fun.
Saturday consisted of a trip to NH, involving seeing Public Enemies in Merrimack. They got it mostly right, history-wise, but the way they handled the plot came out somewhere around pretty good. I'm glad I saw it, but I don't need to see it again. Oh well, it was a good day anyway, and I didn't have to wait at all for three of the six trains involved in getting there and back. And I got home about two minutes before it started to rain HARD, last night.
Today I should've done a lot of things I didn't do, but I didn't do anything I really shouldn't have done, so it all comes out even.
