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Last night while Sarah and I were renting some new movies we decided to make spaghetti and meatballs. So we stopped over at the store to pick-up some meat, freshly grated pecorino cheese, and garlic bread. We came home with a host of other items including a new loofa sponge, a replacement can opener, a new brush for Sarah, and US Magazine's weekly update on Brad and Jennifer's break-up.

Sarah was mildly annoyed with me during the shopping excursion because I had refused to help her reach for the brush that she wanted that was on an overhanging hook where Stop and Shop has decided to sell odd items that you didn't used to find in a supermarket. It is like a whole other world when you look up at the overhanging items while you shop. I mainly was just giving her a hard time because she always pushes the pug dog to jump onto the bed or into or out of the car instead of helping him to do it. The reaching for the brush reminded me of that experience so I decided to give her a similar response. The "Good girl" command that I gave her after she successfully retrieved the brush after six or seven jumping swipes at her fingertips was probably what really made her miffed. Remember New Years resolution number 10 - Be nice to Sarah. Ooops.

When we got home we were still sweaty from the gym so we went to our respective corners to make telephone calls to people. I called Robert to ask if he wanted to come to dinner and Sarah talked to Lynne. We both invited folks over to dinner but Lynne was going over to Francisco's place so we didn't manage to get our Italian consult on spaghetti and meatballs. But Robert was over at Lisa and Dave's so all three of them came over for a big Italian dinner celebration. Robert has declared 2005 the year of the dinner party. I personally think it is the year of the Poker night as movies like Tilt are even coming out about Poker. Poker is the new trend that has knocked out Swing dancing. It is too bad because swing dancing is more active. Regardless of the mega-trend. The local trend is that we are all eating dinner in because it is cheaper.

So Robert, Dave, and Lisa came with a bottle of red wine. Because of that we left our bottle of white wine that we had put in the freezer to chill quickly in the freezer. I found it this morning frozen. It had dripped a little through the cork to form a frozen wine puddle in the freezer. Hopefully it is still drinkable but it could just be a casualty of irresponsibility. Things could be worse.

The meal was quite tasty and we spent plenty of time getting the scoop from Lisa and Dave about their lives and times. They launched their new blog Musings today through their newsletter that is promoting the big Club Passim show at the end of the month. See below.

A good chunk of the end of the evening was spent watching Robert trying to make a copy of Renaldo and Clara, a Bob Dylan movie only available through a bootleg made off of Spanish television. DVD copying of a 4 hour movie takes over 4 hours and tons of disk space so Robert eventually had to abandon the project.

Today was a big day for software because Picasa 2 was announced. I'm psyched to play with it to improve the indexing of those photos on my site.

Monday, January 31, 7 PM
CLUB PASSIM
Street Performers' Night-A Benefit for the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter47 Palmer StreetCambridge (Harvard Square), MA(617) 492-7679
Featuring Tom Bianchi (host), Danielle Miraglia, Lisa Bastoni, Teresa Storch, Kevin So , Rachel McCartney, Brian Webb, Ari & more

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