dinosaur comics was good today. or was it yesterday’s that i just read today? anyway, it’s good as usual but this time i chuckled aloud instead of that cerebral inner “mmmm, yeeeees, that’s quite humorous, ha ha, ha ha, bravo.”

that’s my inner sophisticate replete with monocle and swirling brandy glass.

did i tell you how i played board games three nights in a row over this weekend? probably because i shouldn’t, because it’s sort of embarrassing when i think about it. board games should best be played under ‘oh wow, i haven’t played that in a while’ circumstances. e.g., friday night for cobi’s birthday, where it was a lot of fun until i lost at pictionary. i HATE losing at pictionary.

that’s why i was okay with playing again at spencer’s saturday night (post-swimming in the infinity pool and eating a delicious but 16 dollar french dip at dinner. nuts!), where we trounced the competition then watched spencer guide us to victory in trivial pursuit as well. that guy knows kind of a lot of things about pretty much everything, but probably doesn’t get to use all that knowledge for tangible gains except during board games. his poor brain, just crying out for proper recognition!

this weekend it’s off to illinois for a touch of chicago fun then several days of family action. should be a nice homey midwestern weekend which i haven’t had in ages and am looking forward to. hopefully jessica feels the same and isn’t secretly thinking, ‘i’m terrified to be meeting upwards of 20 of brian’s relatives all at once and they probably won’t like me’. especially because they almost definitely will and there’s nothing terrifying about my family unless you hate it when nice people offer you large amounts of tasty food and a seat on a porch in which to enjoy a cold beverage.

that would be an awful phobia, wouldn’t it?