2014 APR 05 : SATURDAY

I went to the gym at 8am. ARK came at nine with the kiddies. I look J to Tin Umbrella to get a badly needed caffeine shot for myself. We then returned to the gym to wait for ARK to finish her workout. The kiddies were kinda crazy; I tried to burn off their energy by making them do burpees. LK did ten before he got bored. J did them erratically. She was not big on the jumping up and clapping part.

After exercise, ARK went with the kiddies and her mother to Costco. I went to the townhouse to do landlord things. The main thing was to clean out the dryer vent. Unfortunately, when I managed to get up in to attic, I found out that the vent had become undone and the dryer lint had been spewing out all over the attic. That can’t be good. After wrestling about trying to get the stuff back together, I gave up and went to Lowes for additional supplies. Basically, I had problems getting everything back together because it was obviously assembled in a different order and it was no longer physically impossible to reassemble. I was also overheating and had breathed in too much fiberglass and lint. I had hoped to find a different angled connector or possibly use a flexible tube, but that didn’t happen. I ended up getting another angled connector, some metal tape to reseal everything assuming I got everything back together, and some tools to clean out the lint from the piping. And some masks so that I would not breathe in crap and get cancer.

I finally was able to get the vent stuff back together and sealed it. I still have to actually clean it out, but that will wait for another day. I also have to fix the mount straps that were holding everything up; they have come undone for some reason which perhaps is why everything fell apart. And all that lint in the attic should be removed. But, yes, another day.

I also fixed the townhouse doorbell. That was easy.

We had a date night again. ARK’s mother took J while our neighbor S watched LK… just like our last date night. And just like our last date night, we went to Luc. Their four course menu du jour was pretty much the same as last time (which some minor alterations), so we ordered off their normal menu. I got a Luc’s Mule (vodka, ginger ale, lime, cassis, plus other stuff) cause it was a date night and why not booze it up. Speaking of booze, we got a carafe of their house red (which supposedly is specially made for them). It was good. We got a cheese plate plus these fried potato puffy things that were served with a mayo/harissa sauce. I’m not sure how they made them (they looked like thin-walled fried potato torpedoes), but they were awesome. ARK got a gnocchi thing while I got moules frites which is basically mussels with french fries. It was very good, and something I would not normally get. ARK got a s’more ice cream for dessert while I got salted caramel ice cream with caramel sauce on top.

The food was good and still a good bargain relatively. Unfortunately, we have exhausted their veggie options, so we can’t go back until they change their menu again.