Good weekend. I started off with a celebration of the release of the Y website. That's a major milestone, and this project took full advantage of both my technical and artistic talents. Then I rode a metric century Saturday morning in perfect weather and with my teammates, who are my favorite people to ride with. During the ride I was feeling grateful for having the time and ability to ride my bike with friends, and I was enjoying the scenery of the country. (I couldn't get that Hem song Half an Acre outta my head, though.) On Saturday afternoon, I accomplished several errands and bought a dining room table and six chairs. Saturday night was the weekly dinner at Fish Market with the cycling folks; there's usually a pretty large group. I realize I am supposed to be an adult and all that, but I laughed harder than I have laughed in a long time at the guys making a hush puppy into a projectile with a fulcrum and a fork. Especially when one of those guys is my dad's age (60ish), and he's being that silly.

Sunday is more work, until the new farmboy helps me retrieve the furniture from the store ("As you wish," he says). Then my niece is having a birthday party (she is 3), and I am going to steal my baby niece and hold her the entire time, unless she poops in her diaper in which I will then give her back to her mother. But when she's clean, I will steal her back again.