Technically, "Dave" wasn't one of the choices

Laura and I went to a potluck for her friend's birthday. Once we got there, Laura realized she'd forgotten to bring the hostess a promised short story. "I'll mail it to you," said Laura to the hostess.

Well shucks, as long as she's mailing something, we might as well get something else to put in the envelope. Like, for instance, this coaster belonging to the hostess.

Fig. 1: Freedom from culpability

We put everything in the envelope and drove to Mary Jean's house, where wedged the envelope inside the screen door, rang the doorbell, and ran for Laura's car. We sat in the car and watched three people come out of the house and do a not-terribly-impressive job of looking for us, and then we spied on them as they opened the envelope and made our day with their reactions.

Celebrate good times (COME ON!)

Inflating 1100 balloons was difficult enough. Photographing them was even more difficult.

Fig. 1: I'm pretty sure I had better photos, but I don't know where they are

And just because:

Fig. 2: I have no idea who these people are ... except for the guy in the red shirt, because that's me

I've got callouses on my finger[tip]s!

I've got two messages on my machine this morning. They're both from me, from last night -- I didn't have any paper with me, so I had to call my voicemail so as not to lose my great ideas. Now, with the sun out and the temperature up, I'm somewhat reluctant to find out what constitues a "great idea" at 11:30 on a Saturday night.

But hey, if I set the timestamp for this post to last week, future generations will not see that i took a two-week break between posts. For a brighter future, I'll take a grim present any day.

I've got blisters on my finger[tip]s!

I know it's lame to complain about the weather, especially if you live in Saskatoon, but check this out:

Fig. 1: Not an April Fool's joke

Admittedly, the snow is very very light, but it's still snow. Uncool. Un-cool.

My fingers are still sore from tying 1100 balloons this weekend. I'll post a picture of said balloons later tonight.