Last night, as I was finishing what I'd been writing about Penzey's, Bryan (the groom), Krista (the bride), and Brad (her brother) came by to invite us to join them at Dave and Buster's.  I like D&B a lot more than GameWorks, which is Tampa's lame excuse for a grownups' arcade.  I had mentioned going there while we were at Al's Pizza in Riverside, ( Read more... )

Since Heathrita asked, here's the dirt on Penzey's:

There are two store in Jacksonville; we went to the one further east.  Its hours are ludicrously short (they're never open past 5:30), but we had over an hour to browse, and used almost all of it.

The store is difficult to find; it's in a strip mall.  But it's worth the hassle.  It's not the ( Read more... )

Yesterday the bed arrived and we managed to get almost everything done AND still leave town well-rested at a reasonable hour.

I went to bed with an aching back (because it's hard work to take apart a queen bed and schlep it to the dumpster with the five-foot-high rim), and we had to shift around a bit to get comfortable, but part of that was that ( Read more... )