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I love patgreene dearly, and I'm glad to be home. I feel bad that I'm kind of blue... there are unrelated reasons, but she's taking it personally at times. That isn't fair to her... sigh.

Tonight we tried to get away from my moodiness and reconnect with each other... talk over dinner at the Tied House, a nice pint of IPA, and then watching Johnny Depp swishing through "Pirates of the Caribbean"... now I understand the "but... why the rum?" and "you don't know pain, you haven't worn a corset" references I've been seeing for three weeks :-).

Still... maybe things would have been better if I'd gotten the extra time in the field, had come home tomorrow and then pressed immediately back to work Monday. My presence at home hasn't helped much, other than I'm physically here to ask things or hug occasionally.

Second birthday ;-)

This evening patgreene and the kids celebrated my birthday, nearly two weeks late. I had been a bit down, having received no cards or notes from my parents or siblings for the first time. But I cheered up quickly... Pat made an intense chocolate cake, too rich for Kevin. Seven 71% large Valrhona bars went into the ganache frosting.

( picture and haul ;) )