Intelligent Life Discovered On Earth

Friday at Fricano's was especially nice. Morning coffee al fresco with just Paul and DeeAnne while Allison helped customers inside. I had the feeling that everyone's housing thing was either gonna get better or worse and I think that by day's end it turned out to be both.

Dinner was more refreshing than usual. Chris-the-Younger and Tino-the-Thinish were outside the place when I arrived. Twas good to see them and cop some hugs and stuff. Only missing person was Josh-the-Rock and about 20 other regulars whom I would have loved to have seen all at once.

Michael the Scientist was holding down the counter and, together at first, we did Thursday's New York Times crossword puzzle, with help from Jamil and Paul. Once we got the "valentine" theme nailed down, it was pretty much Michael's job to finish it off, which he did rather well and was rewarded by having the pleasure of success. He actually did a solid 1/3 of the thing by himself. 4 Kudos.

Paul mustered up every ounce of deft in order to create for me the most exquisite sandwich. I was going to suffer the use of "panache" in that sentence after having failed during the first draft to include "deft" or "deftly," and now it's all falling apart at the last possible moment, quite unlike the sandwich.

I got a bit lonesome after a few hours at home doing computer stuff*, but as usual I survived, and look forward to Saturday's meeting with Lindsay for a trip to Barack Obama's campaign headquarters. More about Lindsay later.

Robert Altman's only great movie - Nashville - just started on TCM. So many great performances and such great cinema. I may nod off to it, but I'll save a copy for old age and Fricano's.

Nighty-night.

* I spent several hours retooling my website so that pages would load faster. Stop by my cartoons page and play Monty Python's "I Like Chinese" in case you haven't heard it before. It's a hoot as they say.