02 MAY 2008 : FRIDAY
I worked at home. Nothing too exciting. Amanda was at clinic. My mom watched LK. Later she went out to dinner with a friend who was visiting from D.C..
I went to Karl’s birthday celebration at Taste of India. Amanda thought about going as well, but she decided to stay home with LK since she was tired and she had been away from LK since she had started working again and it was way past LK’s bedtime. I did offer to watch him instead, but she decided to stay home.

I had not been to the restaurant since Karl’s last birthday… it is north of the ship canal (of which my knowledge of the city is relatively minimal). Other than Eve and Karl, the other people there were his brother and sister-in-law, James and his friend (whose name I have again forgotten), Stacey, and Randy.
Dinner was fun. The proprietors gave Karl a bunch of sweets and a bottle of wine since it was his birthday. I believe they went out to a bar afterwards, but I left to return home since it was pretty late once we had finished dinner.

The above picture of Karl is pretty grainy since I took it with my cell phone. We lost our camera during our not-yet-recapped Tennessee trip.

03 MAY 2008 : SATURDAY
It was a rainy day, so we thought we would be denied in our scooter shopping. And, in fact, the place we wanted to go only had two 50cc scooters left, but it was raining too hard to test drive them. They suggested calling back in a few hours to see what the weather was doing.
We did call them back, and in the interim someone had bought one of the scooters! Without actually riding it I presume. However, they said to come on down as the rain had kinda let up.

The scooter people were great. Amanda did test drive the scooter, and it was fine, so we bought it and the required accouterments (i.e. helmets) on the spot. Well, it did take a bit to fill out all the paperwork. Apparently, a lot of people do the same as they are burning through their scooters, especially the 50cc models, as fast as they can get them.

Amanda was amused that she wears an extra-small helmet while I have a xx-large size. I also choose a black helmet in spite of the fact lighter helmets are more visible because their white helmet styles looked way too stormtrooper-like. I presume Amanda agreed because she picked a silver model.

Amanda did not feel confident riding the scooter home in the rain… it had started coming down again… so I rode it back while Amanda followed in the car. It went a lot faster than I thought it would, and the traffic was no problem at all since I was basically going as fast as the cars were. It was fun riding through downtown, although it would have been funner had it not been raining.

We must have done something in the evening, but I have forgotten. Hmm, maybe I played a little GTA4. I think I did actually while rocking LK to sleep in a chair. Amanda caught up on work.

04 MAY 2008 : SUNDAY
We did a lot of P-Patch work in the morning. Basically, that meant doing some final bed preparations and actually planting. We planted the usual beets, carrots, onions, lettuces, arugula, spinach, and peas. And we still have onions, swiss chard, and garlicks growing. LK was with us for a while, but Amanda and my mom took him home before he melted down.

It was a very nice day, so I went for a short ride on Lake Washington Blvd to test the scooter out more. It definitely needs warming up. Amanda did some scooter rides, too, but only near the house.

She later went grocery shopping with Mandy while I went to our start-of-the-season P-Patch meeting. There was more turnover than I thought there would be, and we have two new leaders/chieftains. Alas, there are many people on the waiting list, so they are retiring the kids garden and giving it to someone. Amanda was sad all the work she had done with the strawberries may go to waste. But who can say what the new people will do.

05 MAY 2008 : MONDAY
Work. Amanda did not have to work today and attempted to go to the library with my mom, but it does not open until 1pm or somesuch on Mondays.

LK apparently exhibited some weird screaming in the afternoon, so Amanda made an emergency appointment to take him in (she does not want to be his doctor as it is harder for her to be objective). She called me, so I came back home to take them to Group Health. As we kinda expected since his weird screaming had abruptly stopped, there was nothing obvious wrong with him once we got there, but obviously one never knows, eh?

I went back to work. Then came home. We had chili for dinner. LK wigged out again, but it was not so bad. I worked more then stopped to write this entry. Everyone else is sleeping upstairs except for piglet, who is keeping me company.