Well, that was a lovely weekend. We were graced by the presence of zenwolph, and we did…well, we didn’t do much, and that was kind of nice. Zen came in late Friday night and we stayed up entirely too late chatting. After a far-too early wakeup on Saturday (curse my internal alarm clock!), we ventured out, with our first stop being an introduction to geocaching for Zen. A relatively easy find, and I was finally able to drop off the travel bug that I picked up from awfulhorrid and chouette about eight months ago. Um, whoops. After that, we stopped by The Q Shack for some delicious barbeque (love their Texas-style sauce!), then wandered around Beast Buy a bit and picked up a new wireless adapter. Unfortunately, I found later in the weekend that for some reason this adapter doesn’t play well with something on my laptop and just…quits at random intervals, the only recovery being a full reboot. So that’s going back to the store this week.

We came back and lounged around a bit, watching an episode of Wolf’s Rain and the final Iron Chef America episode. Feeling the need to break the inertia, we wandered over to the newly-reopened-from-bankruptcy FunWerks where Zen and Takaza played a little DDR and we watched the go-karts for a bit. We didn’t actually get in on it because the lines were just too long, but we’ll be going back sometime soon, I suspect. Afterwards, we stopped by a Patronie’s Pizza to pick up dinner. This of course fueled Harry-Potter-inspired puns about waiting for the pizza guy: Expecto Patronies! Yeah, yeah, groan all you want 🙂

Sunday was a nice slow start, with another episode of Wolf’s Rain and just hanging out and chatting (and laptop geeking – those of you who have visited us before know how surprising that is!). We grabbed lunch at Abbey Road Tavern and Grill (mmm, their Ringo burger is tasty, but someone deserves a swift kick in the head for that nasty stuff they’re serving as garlic mashed potatoes), then it was time to see Zen off for Richmond. As always, it was lovely having him down and we look forward to next time!

We took a short nap after that and then I made an extremely tasty pound cake (I can post the recipe if anyone wants). me_not_you and wildmouse came over and we watched the Survivor: All-Stars finale. Well, I was pulling for Rupert, but I would have been happy with Jenna, even. It seems the two winning strategies are either screw everyone in sight or fly under the radar, though the former is exceedingly difficult to pull off and is almost always trumped by the latter when it comes to the Final Two. It wasn’t the least-satisfying ending I’ve seen on Survivor, but it ranked pretty far down. (And those who would comment about how virtuous you are and what an awful show Survivor is: you are cordially invited to piss off) I look forward to the premiere of The Amazing Race 5 on July 6; it’s by far our favorite reality show and a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

Several phone calls to make today, jobs to be applied to, and catch up on a bit of housework. Hope everyone’s week is just fabulous!