Dinner was a nice salad, lamb chops sauteed in garlic, fennel, cinnamon and burgundy, a warm and tasty Brie and Brioche dish from Costco, fresh croissants and a very nice Spanish red to christen the new decanter. I am ready for bed now, and hopefully the wife and kids are focusing more on the yumminess of dinner and not on the high probability that the new horse has a lymphosarcoma. And yes, I cooked dinner tonight.

Things I’ve learned this week so far:
1. Congress may not be concerned about universal health-care coverage and the fact that the lack of it puts our businesses at a disadvantage against Canadian and European businesses, but they are definitely on the ball when it comes to television. Yes, while we cannot figure out health insurance, those hdtv rebates are all ready and waiting! Yay!

2. The Fed-Ex guy prefers you to answer the door with pants ON.

3. My old slide scanner still works. And still takes forever to scan.

4. The previous owner of my house never threw anything away. Today I took three garage doors, including tracks and motors, to the dump. I still have several more. Fortunately, I disposed of most of his used-tire collection this summer.

5. Ummm, that’s it.

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