The weeks continue to fly by.  No way is it February already.  That’s what happens when you’re keeping busy I guess.  That, for instance, wasn’t an all-together boring weekend.  Friday was of moderately poor weather outside, so I defaulted to the Hop House for my after work entertainment.  It was about on par for Friday entertainment too;  Served a purpose.  Saturday we made a half-hearted attempt at running some errands.  Those plans were quickly derailed when I got frustrated with the traffic though, as usual.  We got absolutely nothing done, but we did have a nice lunch out I guess.  I bailed out for the safety of the house, and spent the rest of the day working on my tired old computer.  It’s getting a little on the aged side.  I believe I’ve had this one roughly 8 years, which makes it about 500 in computer years.  In a last ditch effort to speed it up a bit, I dropped a snappy new SSD drive in it and cloned my old spindle drive to it.  As advertised, it is noticeably more responsive.  It should easily get me through a few more years like this.  However, I’ve pretty much already made up my mind that it’s time to upgrade so we shall see what comes of that.  The new drive would make a fine base for a new PC for sure, so it won’t be money wasted.  (No more so than any money spent on a pc is wasted anyway.)

Sunday the oddly poor weather continued.  Actually I guess it’s not that odd…  It is, in all fairness, winter time.  A few inclement days are to be expected I suppose.  Man it wouldn’t let up though;  torrential downpours, one after another.  At least it’s fairly warm out, which takes the edge off a bit.  We were getting a little bored of sitting around the house, so we headed out for an afternoon showing of American Sniper.  Good movie, I think we both enjoyed it.  After the show it was still dumping rain, putting me in the mood for some comfort food.  We stopped by the grocery and I picked up some short ribs, which I’ve been wanting to cook lately anyway.  (Mostly just for the joy of using my fancy Staub cookware, it makes me happy.)  I used a recipe from Anne Burrell, and I was quite happy with the results.

Today and tomorrow I am enjoying a few days off.  I spent my morning today renting a trailer and hauling my broken-down scooter to Sac-town.  What a nuisance.  Had to be done though, that’s my main form of transportation and it hasn’t run in months.  The drive down there was nerve-racking to be sure.  My tie-down job left something to be desired apparently, and it kept sliding all over the trailer.  I don’t know how it didn’t tip over, but it never did.  I was hoping they could fix it and I could haul it back home, but of course nothing is that easy, they estimated a week.  Sigh.  It remains to be seen if I trailer it back up the hill or just ride it home…  I think I’d rather ride a scooter on the freeway than make that arduous journey with the trailer again.  (Not to mention it wasn’t particularly cheap renting it.)  Tonight we’re going to head down to a friends house to spend the night, then get up at the crack of dawn (pre-dawn actually) to queue up for a glass of Pliny the Younger beer.  I do not find the idea of standing in line six hours for a beer particularly appealing, but I’m going anyway, just to say I did.  Something tells me it will fall quite squarely in the “not worth the wait” category, but I’m trying to keep an open mind.