More Silver
Aug. 23rd, 2006 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeIt's a special occasion, so with your forebearance, I'm indulging myself in another long post. Here's how we spent our day.
First, gifts. I received three books: The Man-Eater of Punanai, in which adventure-travel writer Christopher Ondaatje revisits his childhood in Sri Lanka; Terry Jones' Barbarians (as in Monty Python), for which I hope the TV series will appear soon; and From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. R. received CDs by The Soft Boys (featuring Robyn Hitchcock), The Minders, UHF, and Built to Spill.
Then we walked over to the neighborhood pub and played 7 rounds of pool (stars and stripes). R. played better, and I played more whimsically, and he won, 4-3, but five of the seven games were won on technicalities. (I sunk the 8-ball prematurely three times, R. did once too, and once he sunk the cue ball on the same shot as the otherwise winning 8-ball.) Then he briefly played pinball, and we briefly played Ms. Pac-Man, and then lunch arrived. R. had a southwest wrap and two Boont amber ales, I had a tomato juice, and we split some corn salsa quesadillas and fries. While paying the bill, we chatted with a couple of guys who were astonished to hear of our 25th anniversary, and I was flattered to be told that I only look about 27 or 30 myself, and when they joked with R. about how inexpensive our celebration was, it was surely the first time I'd ever heard him describe me as "low maintenance"!
R. napped, and I got out the iMac and scanned those pictures. Then he picked up D. and we hung out; I sat outside and started my Ondaatje book. We got our dinner from Chef's Kitchen, our nicest neighborhood restaurant, specializing in Swiss-PNW-Asian cuisine. R. had Swiss chicken chanterelle, and I had risotto al funghi, also with chanterelles. We also split an order of artichoke shrimp Tillamook, a baked dish with mornay sauce and Tillamook cheddar. (Then we tried to watch Date Movie, but, ick.)
First, gifts. I received three books: The Man-Eater of Punanai, in which adventure-travel writer Christopher Ondaatje revisits his childhood in Sri Lanka; Terry Jones' Barbarians (as in Monty Python), for which I hope the TV series will appear soon; and From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. R. received CDs by The Soft Boys (featuring Robyn Hitchcock), The Minders, UHF, and Built to Spill.
Then we walked over to the neighborhood pub and played 7 rounds of pool (stars and stripes). R. played better, and I played more whimsically, and he won, 4-3, but five of the seven games were won on technicalities. (I sunk the 8-ball prematurely three times, R. did once too, and once he sunk the cue ball on the same shot as the otherwise winning 8-ball.) Then he briefly played pinball, and we briefly played Ms. Pac-Man, and then lunch arrived. R. had a southwest wrap and two Boont amber ales, I had a tomato juice, and we split some corn salsa quesadillas and fries. While paying the bill, we chatted with a couple of guys who were astonished to hear of our 25th anniversary, and I was flattered to be told that I only look about 27 or 30 myself, and when they joked with R. about how inexpensive our celebration was, it was surely the first time I'd ever heard him describe me as "low maintenance"!
R. napped, and I got out the iMac and scanned those pictures. Then he picked up D. and we hung out; I sat outside and started my Ondaatje book. We got our dinner from Chef's Kitchen, our nicest neighborhood restaurant, specializing in Swiss-PNW-Asian cuisine. R. had Swiss chicken chanterelle, and I had risotto al funghi, also with chanterelles. We also split an order of artichoke shrimp Tillamook, a baked dish with mornay sauce and Tillamook cheddar. (Then we tried to watch Date Movie, but, ick.)