Perfect Saturday
Ye Gawds, it feels like forever since the last one.
Slept late, did some housecleaning, ate huevos rancheros with green sauce. Went to iaido, ran through the first jo kata something like twenty times in a row, nonstop (it ends right where it begins, so you can just keep on going), and then some slightly bleary sword kata practice. Rushed home, then to Angyl's, then back home again, doing prep-work for the rest of the day, after which Angyl and I had a leisurely dinner at Shiki Sushi (which was in unusually fine form, even by its usual standards). Renewed my season tickets to the opera, and then saw this season's second-to-last production, a pair of one-acts. Bluebeard’s Castle was a showstopper, one I’ll gladly seek out again. (Best. Lighting. EVAR.) Erwartung was nasty, brutish, and mercifully short, but I enjoyed it far more than I expected to, thanks to the imaginative staging. Then home again, with just enough snowfall to be confusing, and not enough to actually cause traffic peril. Took Png on a brisk late-nite trot to tire him out, which was only marginally successful, but I wouldn't discover that until well after midnight which means that it's a ding against Sunday, not Saturday.
A shout-out to my awesome friends who crashed my house and took care of Png so that Angyl and I could have our first real date night in quite a long time. They reschedule the start time of Saturday Exalted so I can make it to Iai, then they cancel it altogether because of events like this. And then they have the gall to say they're just happy to help out.
I love you guys.
Slept late, did some housecleaning, ate huevos rancheros with green sauce. Went to iaido, ran through the first jo kata something like twenty times in a row, nonstop (it ends right where it begins, so you can just keep on going), and then some slightly bleary sword kata practice. Rushed home, then to Angyl's, then back home again, doing prep-work for the rest of the day, after which Angyl and I had a leisurely dinner at Shiki Sushi (which was in unusually fine form, even by its usual standards). Renewed my season tickets to the opera, and then saw this season's second-to-last production, a pair of one-acts. Bluebeard’s Castle was a showstopper, one I’ll gladly seek out again. (Best. Lighting. EVAR.) Erwartung was nasty, brutish, and mercifully short, but I enjoyed it far more than I expected to, thanks to the imaginative staging. Then home again, with just enough snowfall to be confusing, and not enough to actually cause traffic peril. Took Png on a brisk late-nite trot to tire him out, which was only marginally successful, but I wouldn't discover that until well after midnight which means that it's a ding against Sunday, not Saturday.
A shout-out to my awesome friends who crashed my house and took care of Png so that Angyl and I could have our first real date night in quite a long time. They reschedule the start time of Saturday Exalted so I can make it to Iai, then they cancel it altogether because of events like this. And then they have the gall to say they're just happy to help out.
I love you guys.