Sunday I did end up having a couple friends over. It was fun, they brought their Wii and after some failed attempts by myself to play Tennis we switched to Mario Party 8, which was so dripping in cute that I fell in love. Alas, I will not be searching all the local stores to try to get my hands on one (apparently they’re still a bit tough to get), I really don’t have time for console gaming these days. I’m happy with my little pink DS.
I picked up our tickets for the Philadelphia Folk Festival in August. This is perhaps the only thing that ever happens in our lovely town of Schwenksville and we’ve never been to it. Every year there was always something, we were otherwise engaged, I couldn’t get the time off, we couldn’t afford it. But not so this year! We made plans way ahead of time and even bought the tickets before the 10% discount for early purchase ran out.
And speaking of fests, we’ll be attending the Brew at the Zoo 2007 on July 28th. A couple beer-loving friends of ours told us about this last year and I was pretty upset about missing it. I am not missing it this year! The microbrew lineup is really impressive. And you can’t beat the venue! Apparently the Elmwood Park Zoo is a pretty small Zoo (unlike the nearby Philadelphia Zoo), but they have cute, fuzzy things like sugar gliders and a jaguar so I’m happy.
And now it’s time to complain about the weather. The highs have been consistently in the 80s this week (up to 89 today), which would be tolerable except for the humidity. The humidity absolutely kills me, yesterday evening I was even feeling a little sick and skipped going to the gym. I shouldn’t even have to have my A/C on right now but it’s just so intolerable without it. And rain does nothing to clear out the humidity (like it did in Maine), I think it just makes it worse. Yuck. I hate the summers here.
Thanks again to everyone who commented on my entry asking for veggie recipes, we got some good ideas. Too bad most of the recommended books are out of print! But I guess that’s how it goes with cookbooks. It looks like I can snag most of them from Amazon resellers, and those I can’t are added to my used bookstore list.
I’ve been able to get more reading in lately, not nearly as much as I have in the past as I’ve been reading the same two books for 3 months now. I finally started Cryptonomicon, which was recommended to me about fifty thousand times but I never got around to. I’m about halfway through now and it’s been quite enjoyable. I’m also reading Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which is easily now in my top 5 as far as historical books go. It’s absolutely fascinating, and I find myself talking about it more often than I typically talk about books. Once I finish it I’ll be picking up the PBS Documentary version that I caught a clip of a couple years ago which led me to the book.
Aside from one little outing, my plans for the weekend are pretty much: Find air-conditioned place. Read. Yeah, I could use a relaxing weekend, I’ve been busy lately.