Me: “This isn’t the best wine.” Meghan: “It’s not even the best canned wine.”

Meghan and the bambina met us at Mod Pizza.

Magic with the dude, Greg, and his kids.

Walked to Third Place with the dude.

Tonight’s kitchen victory: insalata di arance (not this recipe, but a similar one).

Currently reading The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America by Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku, Satake, Tsuji, Ueda, and Yamaguchi.

“Have you considered being a manager?” Yes, every year or two as a matter of fact. Each time, I come to the same conclusion: I don’t want to be responsible for personnel issues. But I appreciate the sentiment regardless.

While the bambina was at a birthday party and the dude was at a D&D game, Meghan and I went up the street to the pub for beer, cider, sopes, and tres leches cake.

Brunch at Salare with the family, Katie, Matt, their boy, Billie, and Sandra.

Rewatched Les Triplettes de Belleville with Meghan last night. Such a weird (almost grotesque, in an older definition), fun movie.

Yesterday’s kitchen victories: beef stroganoff and butterscotch pudding.

Watched The Godfather Part II again. (Both of these spanned two days, by the way, because I didn’t want to inflict them on the kids just yet.)

Watched The Godfather again.

Today’s kitchen victory: salted caramels.

Meghan is off to Vegas for an extended weekend trip to visit a friend.