to paint, perchance to church
Feb. 13th, 2005 08:25 amTime to drag myself out and apply one more finishing coat of Zolatone to the cabinet trim pieces before we all go off to the 9am family service... was up until after 2am, after
patgreene and I went out for tapas and wine last night. Finishing up at midnight with chocolate bread pudding at the Palo Alto (nee Peninsula) Creamery.
We talked about travel... assuming I'm not RIF'ed in the meanwhile, I'm due to go to the Arctic (July), Spain-Munich-Spain (August and most of September), and possibly southern Japan in October (if my paper is accepted...) for a week. Pat would like to go with me somewhere for a week or so, but her mom is getting too frail to come out and watch my kids, and
scarlet1 will have her hands full at home with my dad's condition. So I may go around and try to hit up various friends/sweeties for a couple of days of childcare, later this year...
Yesterday I spent making detailed drawings of cabinet work, then cutting lumber to match, then applying a base coat of Zolatone to trim pieces before heading out to drive across the Bay with the van and James to help
sarahh's move. Which was basically complete by the time we arrived (ulp!), due to a larger-than-expected turnout.
So I followed
tenacious_snail over to
deyo and
mactavish's housewarming nearby, which I hadn't known I was invited to (missed her LJ post). And saw lots of people there, including the vivacious
cjsmith (whom I hadn't seen in something like a year!). And met the new dog. Then followed
bdot and
vvvexation over to the joint birthday party at the Rabbit Warren, where I spent, oh, 10 minutes... and James and I sung to Dawn and Darla before heading home. :) Dressed in jeans and dirty moving-caliber T-shirts, while the partygoers were clean and freshly pressed... (grin). Still, I got to see Dawn's Cretan-priestess cake and Darla's knockout platform boots.
Now, to go paint...
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We talked about travel... assuming I'm not RIF'ed in the meanwhile, I'm due to go to the Arctic (July), Spain-Munich-Spain (August and most of September), and possibly southern Japan in October (if my paper is accepted...) for a week. Pat would like to go with me somewhere for a week or so, but her mom is getting too frail to come out and watch my kids, and
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Now, to go paint...