Some things never change. The little man’s paternal grandmother decided to take him Friday night, giving the husband and I the night off. So what did we do with our impromptu date night? Dinner and a movie (though my first choice would have been this movie). Saturday morning the house was eerily quiet in my boy’s absence. You’d think it would have helped me to focus on my freelance project, but you would be wrong. I am the queen of procrastinators and easily distracted. The silence distracted me. I had to don headphones, cycling through half a dozen CDs (the Monsoon Wedding soundtrack, Judge, Bikini Kill, Elliott Smith, et al.) before diving in. And then I had to fight upstream against my lazier urges. I’d like to say I’m riding the wave of the future…and that table-based layouts are dead to me, but I can’t…not entirely. Table tags are like my first language. Using CSS is sometimes like speaking French (eight years of French classes = toddler level French). I can speak in both (so to speak) but it requires more effort. But I’m getting the hang of it. The site I’m redesigning will be entirely table-less (though not in French).
Today found me reunited with the little man, and quite busy. I planned it that way, to keep myself distracted from the day’s significance (it would have been the baby’s due date) and it mostly worked. Zophia invited us to brunch at the home of one of her co-workers, who I’d never met. But if it’s a friend of hers, hey, they couldn’t be all bad, right? In fact, they were awesome. The co-worker friend was great (he even whipped us up a special batch of vegan pancakes). And Zophia didn’t tell me there would be geeks there. Three cool librarians and some techies. It was awesome. Talking with adults. And adults with common interests, no less. After thoroughly gorging ourselves we headed to the May Day Festival. Unfortunately the day was a bit chilly, the little man and I a bit logey, and the parade was slow as molasses. Not that we munchkins could see much of it. I mostly stayed for the conversation. Met more new folks…including yet another librarian, who is also a big comic book geek. Most excellent. And now it’s time for some more distraction before bed…in the form of book nine of the Vlad Taltos series.
