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Saturday, Sunday...

Weekends go by fast. I’m still not sure how this one is over, already; last I checked it had barely started.

At least we made it out briefly on both days, an accomplishment which, considering the cold, was no small feat. The highlight Saturday was a quick visit to see 5-day-old Sofia, another MBA-year baby, and a particularly cute one, at that. Emmie’s not heavy, obviously, but newborn Sofia just seemed so very light.

On Sunday, we pushed out a little farther, to the other side of town (through Midsummer Commons, past Jesus Green, and over the Cam) for a birthday get-together at Jan and Elsje’s. Emelyn’s wee friend Tabitha was also present — and Emmie actually squealed with delight upon seeing her. (Az and Em saw Tabitha again today, but I’m told that Emelyn hardly seemed interested, and was instead completely preoccupied with Tabitha’s Marmite sandwiches. Go figure.)

All my other equally-gripping tales from Babydom revolve around sweet potatoes - baking them, pureeing them and serving them to Emmie. Rather than narrate at length, I suppose I should just point to this video.

And there you have it. Happy Monday evening, and to all a good night!

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Coonskin cap

I’m thinking I should take up blogging, again. Some things seem too precious not to share.

Case in point: Yesterday, I saw a man in a coonskin cap. I wanted to laugh, but this guy wound up being the scariest-looking dude I’ve ever seen on the streets of Cambridge.

He was tough enough without the hat. For starters, he was real weathered-looking. Like a big mean sailor. Something about him conveyed (and quickly) that this gentleman had already ‘been there, done that’ when it came to speedy resolution of conlicts. Pub fight, street fight, prison fight - check. Fists, beer bottles, butterfly knives - our man was clearly familiar with all the above.

And, as I have mentioned before, he was lumbering around Cambridge, England wearing a coonskin cap. Now, that’s a disconcerting choice of headgear on anyone, but here the effect was downright chilling.

I mean, where does one even procure such a thing? What haberdashery still stocks this item? The souvenier shop in Frontierland, for one, but that’s back in Anaheim, and I’m convinced this man had not been. He wasn’t the Magic Kingdom type, in so many words. Plus, his wasn’t a costume-shop racoon hat, it was gen-u-ine mammal. I think.

This was not a fashion statement. Nor an anachronistic affectation. This coonskip cap was, quite simply, one of Nature’s Little Warning Signs; a distinct cue for other members of the species (human and raccoon, in this case) to keep walking ahead, eyes fixed forward, never looking back.

Or laughing, either.

Going Bananas

Hi there. I feel like it’s been a long, long time since I wrote one of these entries on the train ride home. At the same time, Christmas in California seems almost equally far away.

We’re all slowly getting back into the swing of things here. Emmie’s had a tough time of it - it’s hard to say if it’s just jet lag or something more (like upper teeth coming in), but she’s simply refusing to sleep for more than an hour or two at a time.

The big bummer for me is that Emelyn’s been eating solid foods the whole week, and I have yet to witness it. (Well, I fed her her first spoons of rice cereal in LA, but that doesn’t count.) Emelyn’s moved on to super-mashed-up bananas now, and even if I haven’t personally witnessed her eating them, I can at least attest that her diapers have suddenly taken on a zesty tropical ambience which I can only describe as ‘unwelcome’.

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January 27

  • Jason checked in @
    Stumptown Coffee Cafe

January 21

  • Angry, upset, and frightened by the Big Mac Snack Wrap.
  • Jason checked in @
    Glo's

January 8

  • Am in the Tiki-Tiki-Tiki-Tiki Tiki room.

December 30

  • Jason checked in @
    Luscious Dumplings

December 24

  • Mannheim Steamrollin'.

December 22

  • Jason checked in @
    Tapas & Wine Bar C
  • Back in Pasadena for a couple weeks. Mentally prioritizing and optimizing my must-visit restaurant list. (Burrito Express = already done.)

December 20

  • Jason posted The Higo
  • Jason posted Tyrolean

December 13

  • Need a sniglet for this here feeling of trepidation/dread after wolfing down a post-midnight (Pike) street-vendor hotdog. "Nachtwurstangst"?

December 12

  • Kindle'd "And Another Thing...". So far, the reading experience has been like watching good movie with bad dubbing.

December 10

  • Jason checked in @
    Cafe Presse

December 9

  • Jason checked in @
    Philly's

December 7

  • Jason checked in @
    Slim's Last Chance Chili Shack

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