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Today I haven't done much of anything of interest, except scavenged around the kitchen for food, hung around with arwen_isobel, and fixed Trinity, who picked up that LoveSan worm within a few hours of being set up. It's my first experience with having a computer virus! It was nasty... just kept shutting down. The momster spent hours last night on the phone with tech support, and they got it running enough that I could download the new virus definitions today and clean everything up.

Today Coffee Place is still closed, so I haven't made any particular plans - maybe Library, maybe not. I don't really like the library. It's as noisy and busy as the bookstore, except you can't have snacks there and there's a lot of dust and mold in the air. I like the concept, "LIBRARY," and used to hang out there a lot when I was a teenager, but nowadays the reality usually leaves me with an allergic reaction. Tomorrow I will not be visiting Coffee Place either, since it's the momster's birthday. She's going to be 48.

If I were not so hungry and convinced that I'd spend too much money there (mmm salad soup bread sandwiches danishes bagels etc), I'd take Little Boy (the iBook) out to Panera and sit and drink hazelnut coffee all day! Perhaps I will - I have to go out this afternoon anyway, to run a few really boring errands..

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Afternoon spent almost exactly as planned, for once. Went out to Panera, had a salad and endless refills of hazelnut coffee, clattered away on Little Boy while listening to music. (CD-rom on laptop computer = fantastic; negates need to carry separate cd player.) Drove to Target, rather across town in rush-hour traffic, to return the two pairs of shoes I bought last week. I kept the black pointy Danton flats but got them in a different size. Again, photos forthcoming.

Decided to make a stop at the music store on the way home. I've been meaning to go there for a while to look for a few specific songbooks (The Singer's Musical Theater Anthology, Vol 1, Soprano - if you're curious), but it's out of the way, only accessible from one direction because of a weird triangular traffic island in front of it. I happened to be going in the proper direction, so I stopped - forgetting that school started this week and the store was chock full of junior high kids buying used cellos. They did not have the book I was looking for, but had another which looked interesting, particularly when I found a song I thought I was looking for. "Go, Lovely Rose." Except it wasn't. The song I found was actually "The Last Rose of Summer" and was a different song about roses that I sang a solo in when I was around sixteen years old. They sort of run together in my memory, except that one is a standard and the other is a sort of melancholy modernist madrigal. I went in with no intention of buying anything, and keeping to my intention was easy.

Also, picked up brownie mix (that's what momster wants for her birthday tomorrow instead of a cake). I believe we are going to eat a pot-roast tomorrow (sorry, vegan friends!) and paint ceramics.

Now I'm just waiting for it to be late enough for me to go to sleep. (Again, when did I become an 80-year-old man?)