Candleblog

Things that make life kind of nice today, despite the cold and the holiday shoppers…

• Sleeping late. Very late.
• Emily’s cute pig tails.
• Emily making a yummy mac-n-cheese with broccoli and whole grain mustard just in time for me to wake up to the smell of it
• The Soup with Joel McHale on TiVo
• Spontaneous decisions to go out into the cold for coffee
• Remembering the super-secret always-open downtown holiday parking lot
• Delicious Vietnamese coffee at The Sapa
• Delicious chocolate & peanut toffee bars, also at The Sapa
• My very warm (almost too warm) VCAM hoodie
• The excellent Bonnie Raitt album playing at The Sapa as I type this list
• The free wi-fi at The Sapa

It’s only 6:00 P.M. so I’m hoping this list will continue to grow as the evening progresses.

UPDATE: harshing my simple-pleasures vibe right now is the game of Go going on at a table across the coffee house from us. One of the players has this thing where he slams his stones onto the board with a loud, reverie-disturbing crack. Is that a Go thing? Is he trying to psych out his opponent? Because I think it will ultimately be a strategy of failure when I go over there and “accidentally” throw all of their stones on the floor. Hey, what do you know? Sarcastic derision is a simple pleasure too!