Nick & Sue in the Avante Garde Overworld

We went to see a play performed by the Berkeley Repertoire theater last Saturday: Finn in the Underworld. We got great seats, great parking, enjoyed browsing the used book store next door, and just had a great date night without the little bratchild to torment us. She was busy tormenting grandparents, forcing them to play Go Fish and the like. We were free for the evening!

The play was billed as a ghost story, and it was...but with a Berkeley twist, I guess. So it was better than going to a movie, but probably not as good as snuggling under a blanket at home with the kidlump to watch Toy Story. Ah, well, there's always next year.

Random thought about ghosts: Wini kind of took to the idea of ghosts; at least, she took to the idea of putting a sheet/towel/blanket/pillowcase over her head to pretend to be a ghost. The funny thing is, she somehow got it into her head that she has to strip naked before donning her sheet. Otherwise we'd see her clothes, you see, and she wouldn't be invisible. So we've had some R-rated ghost hauntings in the Kibre household. What made me think of it just now? The appearance of a Thomas the Tank Engine ghost (pillowcase) with no arms. At least it covered her bottom this time.

I had the machine on Monday and Tuesday and came home to find 12 messages on it. All these professions of love for my birthday, I thought! Not so much. Three messages from relatives, one from the dentist, and the rest were political ads. We had several propositions to weigh in on, but I found it pretty easy to decide how to vote. If Schwartzenegger proposed it, I voted against it. Maybe when he puts the $2 billion back in the education budget that has forced some kindergardens to have 30 students in our district I'll consider his ideas. Until then, he gets a big fat NO.

I'm going to try to upload some pictures from Nick's trip to New Orleans.

Just a glimpse for now, they take a while to upload because the files are big.