Albany --

Dave writes:
Right now (2:30pm Saturday November 12) I'm at my office typing this up, with both Calvin and Isabel alternately hanging off of me, drinking hot chocolate, and playing around with various office paraphernalia. Ordinarily we wouldn't be here on the weekend, of course, but we dropped in to the Family Fun program at WMHT radio (next door in the Tech Park) to say hello to Gord the Dragon and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

For canned entertainment, this was moderately amusing -- but then we found a nice patch of Fragmides (ten-foot-tall invasive grass) in the empty building lot nearby, and we stomped out a nice grass-maze for ourselves, and tickled each other with the fluffed-out seed heads from ten feet away. So that was even better!

-- Except that when I tried to harvest some grass stems to try to weave a basket, I found that the broken edges were surprisingly sharp... so I had to stop in here for a Band-Aid. Back to our regularly scheduled program now -- there's a bunk bed to be built, or at least worked on, this weekend...