Wow. Busy weekend. Not quite what I wanted to do; I was down in Laurel again working on 10-20, and while it wasn’t exciting, it was professionally interesting. Jen however knocked herself out on Sunday by baking me a cake and making a fantastic dinner of lamb and potato-leek soup with homemade wheat muffins. Delicious. It was the best birthday I’ve had in 10 years.

There was a beautiful short Steelcase desk out in the alley this morning, and I thought I might have an unexpected birthday present, but when I tipped it up, I noticed that all the drawers were gone. Too bad- it’s one of the old-style rounded corner desks from the 50’s, and in good shape would be a killer piece of furniture. Oh, well. I also pulled out the chunks of concrete from under my A/C unit out back and exposed the dirt, so that the guys pouring the concrete (for the second time) will actually fix what got broke, and not overlook it.

Taxes are mailed. Hallelujah, amen. Gimme my money!

I am one of the proud few who has never composed an e-mail message or a web page containing an emoticon. I am very happy about this fact, as I don’t like emoticons. They sound too much like Decepticons.