A Non-Cheapass Day
This was probably the best Saturday I've had so far this year. Saturdays are usually rather depressing times for me lately, but today was genuinely fun, even if my legs do ache a bit after all the walking.
Karen and I had made plans to go for a walk today, so we did that, going to Olin Park a little south of my house to walk in the forest along Lake Monona. The lake is still frozen (people were walking on it), but it's definitely getting less frozen. There's hardly any snow on the ground after a week of 40-degree temperatures and rain, and I bet the lake thaws at least partly by the end of the month.
After that we went to Monty's Blue Plate Diner (a sort of up-scale greasy spoon) for lunch. I had a good BBQ park sandwich. If I haven't mentioned it before, Karen is allergic to just about everything under the sun (possibly including both oxygen and light [no, I'm just kidding about that]), so she always orders her hamburgers without the bun. I'm always a little surprised that she doesn't attract sarcastic comments from the waiters for this, but maybe I'm just more sarcastic than they are.
When I got home, I found that my order from Cheapass Games had arrived, and many of the games look very entertaining indeed, particularly Kill Dr. Lucky and The Very Clever Pipe Game. I'll have to have a cheapass gaming day at my apartment soon.
I also ran some errands, buying new vitamins (I ended up accidentally buying higher-powered vitamins than I usually take - and the ones I take are already pretty potent - so I might only take one every other day), some cat toys my sister wants me to send to her, and stopping in a used bookstore where I stumbled across a copy of cartoonist George Booth's collection Omnibooth. I find Booth very amusing, and he only has a few collections, so I snap up whatever I can find. I didn't even know this one existed until today.
I also bought a non-cheapass game called Lowenherz, which is one of several games which have been imported from Germany lately. I'm becoming a game junkie. Unfortunately (for my gaming habit) one of my better gaming buddies recently finished his Ph.D. and will apparently be leaving town for his new job soon (obviously this is a good thing for him!).
At the coffee shop tonight, in addition to reading the cheapass games' rules, I read the new Comics Buyer's Guide and the latest Consumer Reports. I have a nice stock of CRs, which is handy when I want to buy a big-ticket item. I used them in choosing my microwave oven, for instance, and will use them when and if I get around to buying new stereo speakers and a 27-inch television.
Tomorrow I will take it easy and mostly sit around at home. My legs really ache after all that walking!
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