A Date!

tamidon & I had a date last night! We left alyveritya in charge of herself and her sister, and when we returned, the house had not burned down! Hooray!

We went to see Neil Gaiman speak at MIT. There were many of our crowd there, balancing the age of the audience of many MIT students. I did not take notes, but kjc007 did. I don't think she'd mind if I were to link to her write-up of the lecture.

But as this was the first annual "Julie Schwartz Lecture", Neil started by reading Alan Moore's eulogy to Julie Schwartz. You should read it too.

Neil said many writer-inspiring things, so expect my fiction output to be a little less moribund. "It is the writer's job to explode, and the academic's job to pick through the pieces and see whether the explosion did what it was supposed to."

After the lecture, we stopped at Mary Chung's for suan la chow show and dun-dun noodles and bon-bon chicken.

Exercize Log -- First Use of Wii Fit

The Wii Fit we ordered showed up, and the kids (and tamidon) had already racked up the first slate of high scores before I'd even opened my own file.

But it looks like fun, it is fun in some places, and it has drilled into me on no uncertain terms that I am an unbalanced weakling. It also claims that I am 171 pounds, which is approximately 30 pounds down from last year.

So last year's bout (or burst) of exercize was definitely beneficial, but it didn't stick thru the winter. We'll see whether the Wii Fit's ability to mix things up keeps me going.

Today's "Wii Bank": 34 minutes.