Yearly Archives: 2010

Flotsam / Jetsam

A miracle of technology

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I’m sitting in my living room getting ready to watch the Oscars, and guess what I’m typing this on? The dead computer. My mother-in-law took it to another computer guy last week, who started it up (which we’d been unable to do) and couldn’t find a thing wrong with it. I’m utterly confused.

Monday morning update!
That was a rather short-lived reunion. The computer worked fine yesterday evening. Today? It turned off while I was trying to import some songs into iTunes. And it won’t come back on. Again. I’m hoping it has at least one more miraculous resuscitation, though, because now I can’t get the CD that I was trying to import to iTunes to eject.

Music

Ten songs for the impending naptime

  1. “Dejalo,” Rilo Kiley
  2. “Only for Me,” James Taylor
  3. “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me,” Billy Joel
  4. “Slowness,” Calexico
  5. “Say It Ain’t So,” Weezer
  6. “We Both Go Down Together,” The Decemberists
  7. “Thought I Knew,” Weezer
  8. “Ring of Fire,” Elvis Costello
  9. “Philadelphia Freedom,” Elton John
  10. “Eleanor Rigby,” The Beatles
Family matters

I went back to Ohio, but my city was gone

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We had guests this weekend, so date night was almost shuffled aside this week. Those guests, though, had concert tickets for Friday night. So rather than turn on the TV after they’d left for the show and the kids had gone to bed, we pulled out a new game and played it until bedtime. There was, once again, no dressing up (or even changing out of my sweatshirt), but we had a lot of fun playing cards together anyway.

3/52
Project 52: Date Nights logo

  • Two children in bed.
  • House guests otherwise occupied.
  • A copy of Lost Cities.*

    • This was my first week “planning” date night, and all I did this time was buy a game in the event that we’d have time to play it. I’m at bat for all of March, and I’m a little nervous. I’ve made a list of things I thought would work nicely, but now I’m second-guessing myself and worrying that they’re too cheesy. Maybe we’ll just play “Lost Cities” every week for a month.

    (I will try not to do that. I promise.)

    *It’s an adventure-themed card game with five suits that’s reminiscent of gin rummy. Each suit corresponds to an “expedition.” It’s addictive.