Here Endeth the Week of Birthdays
Mar. 30th, 2014 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aIt began on Monday, which was of course my birthday. I took the day off work, and good thing because it was a glorious day. My plan was to bike up to Wildcat Canyon. There were some troubles on the way there, as my gear cable snapped less than a mile out of my house. Fortunately, the folks at Missing Link were willing to fix it right away. Willing, but somewhat less able, as my gear shifters largely boggled the mechanic working on my bike. He had to keep looking at instructions on the internet. Did I note I bought those gear shifters at Missing Link? Within an hour all was well and I was on the road again.
It was actually warm (nay: hot) when I biked through Wildcat Canyon, and overall was quite a nice ride. I hung out for a bit at Jewel Lake, reading and (almost) napping a while, then headed home.
For dinner, Kimberly and I went to Chevy's.
Then afterward we went to see Veronica Mars: The Movie. Fun movie, but unlikely to be of interest for non-fans. It continues our streak of good movies at two, following a good Winter's Tale for Valentine's Day, and before that the disappointing Hobbit 2: Elves with Swords last Christmas.
The birthdaying picked up in earnest on Friday night, which is K's birthday. It was less eventful than my own, but we went out for a very tasty dinner & dessert at Pasta Pomodero in El Cerrito.
Tasty food, but pretty bad service. Slow, slow, slow. Our waitress was also constantly worried about forgetting little things we asked for (like no onions in K's salad), and I think she honestly forgot about picking up our check. We probably did 45-50 minutes of reading of our current book (Prince of Chaos) while there.
Saturday, K. went out for tea in the city with a friend and I hung around Berkeley. I'd been planning a big bike ride to somewhere I haven't ridden before (I was considering a few different bridges), but I was foiled by rain. (Sadly, this was the second foiling: two weeks ago I was foiled by a hard drive crash at Skotos.)
Anywho, I had a fast food lunch in Berkeley, then hung out at the main library, mainly to have some time away from the house. Up on the top floor, I had wifi which made it easy to do the writing I was working on, and I also had a nice view of the Marin headlands when the sky finally started to clear.
Tonight the Wiedlins came by. We had a nice dinner over at La Med, some ice cream, and some chatting here and there. We also got some prezzies: I got some fancy bike shorts which may keep my butt from hurting when I do long rides; we'll see how they work out.
I've also been buying myself some birthday prezzies online. Unsurprisingly: books and comics. I'm most excited about The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell, a preorder that'll arrive in a few months. So the birthday times keep going and going!
In other news, this morning K. and I finally caught up with our backlog of TV that appeared when we visited Hawaii at the start of the month. Whew! (Since then, The Amazing Race, Once Upon a Time, and The Walking Dead have taped; but Sunday is our biggest DVRing day)
And we've started in on season 4 of Justified from Netflix. Nice to have one of best quality TV shows again!
It was actually warm (nay: hot) when I biked through Wildcat Canyon, and overall was quite a nice ride. I hung out for a bit at Jewel Lake, reading and (almost) napping a while, then headed home.
For dinner, Kimberly and I went to Chevy's.
Then afterward we went to see Veronica Mars: The Movie. Fun movie, but unlikely to be of interest for non-fans. It continues our streak of good movies at two, following a good Winter's Tale for Valentine's Day, and before that the disappointing Hobbit 2: Elves with Swords last Christmas.
The birthdaying picked up in earnest on Friday night, which is K's birthday. It was less eventful than my own, but we went out for a very tasty dinner & dessert at Pasta Pomodero in El Cerrito.
Tasty food, but pretty bad service. Slow, slow, slow. Our waitress was also constantly worried about forgetting little things we asked for (like no onions in K's salad), and I think she honestly forgot about picking up our check. We probably did 45-50 minutes of reading of our current book (Prince of Chaos) while there.
Saturday, K. went out for tea in the city with a friend and I hung around Berkeley. I'd been planning a big bike ride to somewhere I haven't ridden before (I was considering a few different bridges), but I was foiled by rain. (Sadly, this was the second foiling: two weeks ago I was foiled by a hard drive crash at Skotos.)
Anywho, I had a fast food lunch in Berkeley, then hung out at the main library, mainly to have some time away from the house. Up on the top floor, I had wifi which made it easy to do the writing I was working on, and I also had a nice view of the Marin headlands when the sky finally started to clear.
Tonight the Wiedlins came by. We had a nice dinner over at La Med, some ice cream, and some chatting here and there. We also got some prezzies: I got some fancy bike shorts which may keep my butt from hurting when I do long rides; we'll see how they work out.
I've also been buying myself some birthday prezzies online. Unsurprisingly: books and comics. I'm most excited about The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell, a preorder that'll arrive in a few months. So the birthday times keep going and going!
In other news, this morning K. and I finally caught up with our backlog of TV that appeared when we visited Hawaii at the start of the month. Whew! (Since then, The Amazing Race, Once Upon a Time, and The Walking Dead have taped; but Sunday is our biggest DVRing day)
And we've started in on season 4 of Justified from Netflix. Nice to have one of best quality TV shows again!