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I've been listening to this song all day.
I made it to the library fairly early this afternoon, and got the bulk of my contributions to the group project out of the way. Since it's an annotated bibliography I'll need to go back, make sure the citation formatting is correct and explain all the items' usefulness, which should be easy enough now that I have the materials to work with. It's quite possible I could go back to the assignment tomorrow and add in another five or ten items, but I don't think that'll be necessary. I wouldn't mind going to the library to do other work, though: it's a gorgeous building with lots of windows and plenty of light, and for Davis, being able to go up to a third story is an extreme novelty.
After I got back home, I went on a very short bike ride, just out to the North Davis Ponds. Nothing strange, nothing exciting, and I'll probably do a longer loop out that way this weekend. What made it worth it, besides burning off a bit of energy, was watching the geese. It's not on a major flyway but geese do pass by, and it's warm enough that they're settling in for the spring. One of the ponds is quite a bit smaller and surrounded by lawn, and the other one's much larger and surrounded by a tall fence. There's a couple of wooden walkways so people can get closer to the birds without disrupting them, which is how I got ten feet about a mated pair of Canadian geese hissing and honking at another mated pair across a little waterway. I stuck around and listened to more geese join in, and then another pair fly down and land on the water, and other birds try to go about their business and try not to get involved. I had to hurry home sooner than I wanted so we could go out to dinner.
We went to a Japanese restaurant in Sacramento, Sapporo. It was pretty nice, and managed to scratch my sushi itch. It loses points for having large TVs that offer intense visual distractions for people in the booths on the other side of the building, and gets points for remembering to put a bit of wasabi between the fish and the rice. The rolls weren't special, but the fish was fresh, which was what I wanted. And I got some toro. Oh, man, I didn't even do anything to that, just had those little bits of tuna belly straight-up. That stuff dissolves in your mouth like nothing else, leaving this wonderful feeling of fish.
And now I'm quite ready for bed, happy to have my computer even if I do feel like I should sandblast it, and very, very mellow.
Thank you for the birthday wishes - they mean a lot to me.
After I got back home, I went on a very short bike ride, just out to the North Davis Ponds. Nothing strange, nothing exciting, and I'll probably do a longer loop out that way this weekend. What made it worth it, besides burning off a bit of energy, was watching the geese. It's not on a major flyway but geese do pass by, and it's warm enough that they're settling in for the spring. One of the ponds is quite a bit smaller and surrounded by lawn, and the other one's much larger and surrounded by a tall fence. There's a couple of wooden walkways so people can get closer to the birds without disrupting them, which is how I got ten feet about a mated pair of Canadian geese hissing and honking at another mated pair across a little waterway. I stuck around and listened to more geese join in, and then another pair fly down and land on the water, and other birds try to go about their business and try not to get involved. I had to hurry home sooner than I wanted so we could go out to dinner.
We went to a Japanese restaurant in Sacramento, Sapporo. It was pretty nice, and managed to scratch my sushi itch. It loses points for having large TVs that offer intense visual distractions for people in the booths on the other side of the building, and gets points for remembering to put a bit of wasabi between the fish and the rice. The rolls weren't special, but the fish was fresh, which was what I wanted. And I got some toro. Oh, man, I didn't even do anything to that, just had those little bits of tuna belly straight-up. That stuff dissolves in your mouth like nothing else, leaving this wonderful feeling of fish.
And now I'm quite ready for bed, happy to have my computer even if I do feel like I should sandblast it, and very, very mellow.
Thank you for the birthday wishes - they mean a lot to me.