Friday

I missed a day yesterday. No coincidence, perhaps, that we had been out carousing the night before. Well, not exactly carousing: we visited friends, had a glass or two of wine before dinner, and went out for dinner at a local restaurant. Ellie and I shared everything--salad, main course, dessert, but I still managed to sneak in another glass of wine. More than sufficient.

Friday was a busy day with telephone interviews in preparation for my next podcast. Tea, then, in the morning, and a quick bowl of porridge before getting down to work. For lunch, with Ellie busy having photographs done for her website, I prepared a picnic table of cold cuts, cheese and bread and crackers for lunch for all of us, and we finished up with a chocolate-dipped dunker for dessert.

Down to Laguna Beach mid-afternoon (the traffic not as bad as it might have been) and a ham hock and bean soup over a Netflix movie and Bill Maher. And a small bowl of soy ice cream. And a half a chocolate... Oh, AND a glass of red wine. Hmmmm.