15 JUN 2007 : FRIDAY
The carpet fixer guy showed up (after getting delayed by an accident) to fix our bunched up carpet upstairs. It was impressive how he was able to fix/restretch the carpet without moving any furniture, but it still took him a long long time. It seemed to be one of those very straightforward things that is very easy if you have the right tools and equipment. Which of course, no one except carpet installers have.
The tile and bathroom person (who is actually teamed up with Carpet Man) showed up a bit later to check out the bathroom. He seemed confused about what he installed a year ago, but decided that he did not have the right stuff, so we made another appointment. He had a very nice phone and PDA to update his schedule. He also will recaulk the kitchen counters which will save me another trip to the hardware store.
Amanda and I had dinner at the Vegetarian Bistro in the International District because she was insta-hungry. She felt ill during dinner, so we went home and she dozed off.
16 JUN 2007 : SATURDAY
Amanda had Saturday Morning Clinic. Went she returned, we went back to the pond store and acquired a water lily and two little comet goldfish. We also went to Lowe’s for plants, mulch, and more rocks to line the pond, so the day was filled with more house projects.
Hopefully the goldfish will prosper. Piglet is already very interested in them. I may have to rig up some sort of bio filter for them later.
We replaced all of our recessed lighting in the house with compact fluorescents or varying spectrum; we had mail-ordered them earlier in the week. The 5100K and 5900K ones are quite impressive, although Amanda found them a bit weird to have in most of the house, so we put the “warmer” ones in the living areas (2900K? 3100K? I don’t recall). Maybe we will change them around later to see if the 5XXX ones are better at combating the winter darkness blues. I have the 5900K ones in my office and it is almost daylight inside when they are on.
17 JUN 2008 : SUNDAY
We met up with Rachel and Sabino for brunch downtown. We were going to have brunch at Six Seven at the Edgewater Hotel downtown at Sabino’s suggestion, but while we tried to get reservations earlier (it was unclear if they were needed), they turned out to be very full. Kind of a bummer really, since we had to pay $4 to park for 15 minutes.
Amanda and I had gotten there first, so we eventually met up with them in Pike Place Market. We wandered around a bit and found a place (Bacco) with no wait right outside the market. After a pleasant brunch, we walked around a while before parting ways.
Mandy was not available, so again I was permitted to accompany Amanda on the Trader Joe’s run. Nothing untoward happened and many groceries were obtained.
Back home we finally hung up all the picture we had gotten framed last week.
I uploaded a lot of pictures to the gallery (not just on Saturday, though). I decided to just start with the current ones and work backwards. They are not organized yet, but some of the dynamic albums will automatically update. I will still have to reorganize all the old albums.
We had a typical dinner for us recently: salad from the garden, cheese, bread, olives, asparagus, 0.5 beer for me, 0 beers for Amanda.
We watched Once A Thief after dinner. Once it started, we realized that we had seen it before, but it was still entertaining.
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We went to La Medusa last Wednesday to celebrate the progeny; it was a spur of the moment decision while we were at the Farmer’s Market. They have a special Farmer’s Market prix fixe meal. La Medusa usually requires reservations, but we were lucky to get a table. There was a guy sitting next to us who apparently is a big commercial property owner, and one of his tenants came in and was arguing with him about locks and restraining orders and all sorts of weird stuff, but eventually the tenant left. Weird.