Just found out I've got to work Saturday. Was going to go to a movie. :(

Tomorrow: Catching up on work [sorting bug samples I collected last year], then afternoon hike in the redwoods, some wine and bonfire.
Sunday: Go to this awesome bakery in Frestone (the Wild Flour) and read the times, eat yummy baked goods. Then writing all day.

Tonight I'm going out with friends to a pretty restaurant on the water. Then we're bar hopping at a couple slimy bars that are about 12' x 12' and have mediocre bands. You can imagine it's not very healthy for the ears to be in such a small space with amps. I should try to enjoy myself and let loose but I find it hard to enjoy when I can't hear or speak. Why can't I have friends that are low-key? Why do we have to party hardy? I'm getting too old for this shit. I guess I should stop my complaining since I agreed to go. I'm going to be very cheerful while I scream my beer order and watch drunk people dance!

Saturday and Sunday is a mixture of YMCA, beach, cleaning, cooking.

Friday: went to post office, watch and coffee museums, exhibit at Cabaret Voltaire (birthplace of Dada) and literary center with an exhibit about Bluebeard which was only in German. Had tomatoes (wanted dumpling soup, but it's too fucking hot), liver with rösti and strawberry mille-feuille at classic Zurich place. Have to do laundry.
Saturday: see last bits of Zurich, then train to Lucerne.
Sunday: sightseeing.

Tonight I am going to the gym. I haven't been to the gym for over a month. I am a slug.

Saturday afternoon I'm coordinating a Flickr meetup that may or may not coincide with a flash mob, mostly because flash mobs are so 2001 but Alaska is always way behind everyone else.

Saturday night poker at Rae's, can't decide if I want to bring Olive or not. Pros: she's adorable, may distract other players enough for me to win/steal all of the money, she's adorable, good socialization for her with other people and other dogs. Cons: She's bite-y, she's chew-y, she's still afraid of Rae's three big dogs and may want to be in my lap all night, she will require a bunch of attention so that she doesnt pee/poop in Rae's house.

Sunday is wide open. Maybe a movie? Probably some laundry.

Laundry, housework, packing, primping. Lots and lots of housework. There are dust bunnies everywhere. Normally I don't care, but as I'm going to be away for two weeks and there'll be people coming in to feed the cats, I need to have a good clean. Ugh!

Friday: Tour apartment
Saturday: Tour apartments and clean
Sunday: Philo's Baptism

Also, visiting my parents after reading MGL's Metafilter post. I visit them most every weekend, but I'm definitely going this weekend and I'm going to be extra nice.

Tonight is laundry and helping my brother decipher the local community college class catalog for classes in the fall. We're also using last night's chicken in some pasta sauce tonight!

Tomorrow was supposed to be the first showing of the house, but we've put the kibosh on all that for the next few weeks because my mom was feeling really, really pressured by her agent and dropped him. We'll see if we can find someone a little less bloodthirsty. Instead, we'll probably hang out in the garden and do some patio work; we've also got to fix our sliding glass door.

Sunday is packing! I leave for SF Monday morning on a zippy little jungle jet, which is my absolute favorite kind of plane! It's the one with one seat down one side and two seats down the other. Yay Embraer 145!

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A long bikeride in the morning with wife. After that, nothing more challenging than staining and assembling a new wine rack.

Saturday: Flying back from Portland, OR on a Redeye.
Sunday: Sleep

I mowed the lawn today. Tomorrow, spin class at the gym, and some shopping....because Monday night we are having my daughter's object of twitterpation over for dinner.

Today I went to see the roses at the Botanical Gardens with my friend Nan... quite lovely. Nothing specific for the weekend.

Tonight, I am hoping to go home and collapse. I just decided to skip the gym because I'm completely exhausted and I suspect I could use some extra rest.

Tomorrow, yoga class in the morning, hanging out with friends in the afternoon/evening.

Sunday, massage!

There should be some organizing/packing/cleaning happening in there, too, but I'm too tired to think about it now.

Work on Saturday, as usual.
Sunday is up in the air, but any day off is a good day.
Extending the weekend to Monday with a local minor league baseball game!

Just a phone call from my college roomie who was getting ready to go to work (a few states away at a bar) and she was discussing our plans for a long weekend at the end of the month.
Later this weekend will include more sleeping, a trip to the grocery store, and then work on Sunday.
I have also been given the mission to find outfits for my friend and I to wear to some renaissance festival during said long weekend.

Tonight, laying low.

Naked swimming party tomorrow! Then, later: Dragstrip66.

Sunday: Bastille celebrations on Venice Beach.

Boy, that's some frightening photoshopping going on in that link, myke. Looks like it'd be a blast.
(I'd never heard of Katy Perry before clicking on that link. She's catchy, and looks like Zooey Deschanel. Funny lyrics, too.)

Weekend: sleep, hours of beautiful sleep. Maybe drinks on the Drive, also need. more. books. Movies: more Babylon 5, and Lord of War and Battle Royale, which I'm looking forward to.

Last night I partied hardy with a bunch of different friends, starting at one bar, then somebody's house, then walk in theater featuring a local film parody of bad kung fu movies (which was awesome) at another bar.

Today I am naturally hungover but I have to leave momentarily and take my auntie (the prompt for that post on the blue, which was sent to me by my mefite brother, actually) up to Bat Cave to visit my friend D and her chickens and goats. But auntie wants to go swimming. Unfortunately all the swimming holes I know require hiking, which she can't really do. Therefore it is possible that we might have to pay money to go to the artificial tourist infested hot faux beach at Lake Lure. Gah. I wonder if she'll put her teeth in. Actually I shouldn't bitch; it'll be fine.

Tonight there's a barbecue at another friends house that I don't feel like going to and then tomorrow the gods only know. Maybe I can talk Auntie into going to see Genghis Khan.

Friday night: dinner at home (kale & caramelized onion quiche, corn bread, roasted sweet potatoes, brocolli) and the new Futurama movie.

Today: lolling around, reading, bathing, some chores.

This afternoon: going swimming! My mother's community pool requires her to bring a swim buddy, so I've been swimming with her twice already this week. It's blissful: my constant back pain disappears in the pool.

Tonight: a nice dinner out with Mom and my sister.

Just got back from short camping trip.
Thought I was going to a birthday party tonight but no one is texting me back with specifics.
Tomorrow going to brunch with a close friend who's been away for a while and going to a concert.
Sometime in all of that I have work to do and roommate crap to figure out, both of which I am dreading.