Happy Matt's Birthday!

You may not have noticed, we've been avoiding talking about it at my house, but Matt had a birthday this weekend. Not a big round one, but one big enough that he didn't want to talk about it. So, to fufill my role as a dutiful wife who isn't married to a geezer I tracked down some fun stuff for the weekend to keep his mind off things.

The Main event was the Steel City Big Pour, a beer festival featuring dozens of breweries and food vendors at a construction recycling warehouse. I went as a DD, which meant for $10 I stuffed my faced for 3 hours and sampled sips of only the best of the probably hundred beers available on tap. Breweries came from all over- big highlights being Unibroue and Stone- as well as all our local and regional favorites, like the Church Brew Works and the East End Brewery. A good time (and then a nap) was had by all.

Later that night, W and J came over for dinner and to watch Matt open his presents. No cake, but we did have a peach crisp (although juicy peaches don't crisp, it was still good). Matt was the happy youthful recipient of a HUGE new TV, and totally surprised by the Garmin GPS Mom and Dad sent. Cool Toys!

Sunday we went shopping to find the perfect TV. Those who have ever had the joy of coaching Matt through a major purchase like this may appreciate that he spent 2 extra hours reading reviews (I say extra, because it isn't like he never thought about this before) before we went to Costco. And then he fretted about inputs, and whether we should just buy and upscaling DVD player now, or if we should get a cheaper TV and buy a blue-ray player, or upgrade the video card on his computer and... I suspect these things bring him great joy, but I told him to get the TV, and the rest we can install later. W and J came back to help us move the thing in and get it installed. We spent the rest of the night watching HD broadcast, and buying tickets to Cancun. More on this later!

So much entertainment

Hello,

Nagano and Tigger continue to 'sorta' get along. Occasionally they'll just hang out and be lazy cats next to each other, but usually Nagano wants to pounce on something, so Jess and I spend a lot of time entertaining him so he won't torment Tigger too much. He's still totally adorable.

Jess has also discovered that NetFlix has Heroes online, so we can watch it whenever we want. We started on saturday, and are rapidly coming up to the season finale as we speak. Good show.

-N