A Few Quick Notes 177

-While not all that warm, today has been a pretty nice day. Temperatures were steady for much of the day, hovering within a degree or two of 10. More importantly, the sun has been out since this morning, and even more unusual was that it's presence wasn't marred by clouds diminishing its effectiveness.

-This morning, as is our habit, Kirsten and I made our way over to Georgetown Bakery to pick up a dozen sesame bagels. Unlike other trips, in this instance we left the house before 8:00 AM. The only negative side-effect of this early departure is that we weren't able to stop by and pick up a drink at the local coffee shop, as is our practice, because the store didn't open until 8:00 AM

The great benefit of the early departure time was that it meant fewer customers where there, and that a much greater selection of goods was available (not that this last fact mattered as we were only interested in buying one thing). It was very enjoyable not to have to worry about person ahead of us in line buying all of the particular item we had our eyes on.

The only exciting part of the return trip was the belated visit to the coffee shop, and that wasn't that exciting. Kirsten and I kept things simple by sticking to our usual orders.

-Earlier this evening, while I was in the midst of baking some cookies, I noticed that the barbecue that I had started in the late afternoon seemed to have gone out. In some ways this wasn't all that surprising as we have been doing a fair bit of barbecuing these past few days, and not once have we run out of gas. Anyway, the problem was that we now had a partly cooked pork roast on the spit and no effective means of finishing the cooking.

Eventually my father was able to head out to pick up more gas, but not without a delay of at least an hour. Since his return the gas has been hooked up and the flow and flame re-started. Hopefully things won't take as long as I fear they will (if they do we won't be eating until about 9:00 PM).

-Yesterday my team played its first Ultimate game of the year. Much to our surprise we won 15-0, and managed to finish the game in much less than an hour. While I don't think that it is likely that we will win all of our games with such authority, it would be nice if we continued to score as effectively.