[Shrek & Fiona] A "not so brief" update

We've both been meaning to make an update post but we just haven't gotten around to it until now.

Firstly, jury duty...the guy was--SURPRISE!!!--found guilty of all charges. I forgot to copy the guy's name down, but it doesn't matter that much. He'll be a guest of the Commonwealth for the next 20 years or so. A brief mention in the Telegram mentioned that he'll be facing additional charges in Connecticut soon, with any potential sentence to be served there after his time here is served.

We were both on vacation the week of July 4th, and spent the first couple days running some of the errands that had piled up over the last few weeks. We dubbed Tuesday "Hell Day" as Fiona had to go to the RMV for a new license picture, I had to go to my doctor's office for some blood work, and we capped the afternoon off with a trip to the dentist. All three errands were completed almost painlessly.

Thursday was Fiona's birthday, so we celebrated by going to breakfast at Eller's on the Hill, a breakfast place in Cherry Valley on Stafford St. Our usual breakfast place, Bickford's, closed a while back and one of our favorite waitresses from there went to work at Eller's, so we "followed" here there.

We didn't do much the rest of Thursday, and late in the afternoon went to dinner at Chuck's Steak House on route 20 in Auburn. It has one of the best salad bars around (all you can eat, too), and Fiona filled up on soup and salad and could barely touch her chicken-kabobs. I had no issue finishing my prime rib despite a couple salad bar trips.

We had planned to go to the Tornadoes game Thursday night, but with the heat and humidity we decided to pass on the game. Good thing too, because as were were driving on I-290 past Fitton Field it started to rain. It rained so hard that despite having the tarp over the infield they had to call off the game because the field was unplayable.

We spent the Fourth at a cookout at my uncle's house, catching up with family I hadn't seen in awhile. As is the custom at Hunt family gatherings, there was more food than an entire army could eat. Fiona ate lots of veggies. I ate lots of meat, potato salad, and desserts. Together we added up to a couple of well balanced meals.

There wasn't much going on last week, at least nothing worth mentioning. We did spend a portion of Saturday at That's Entertainment catching up with Paul Howley. Paul only gets to the store a couple times a year so we make sure to have nothing planned for the day he's at the Worcester store.

It's funny, despite not seeing each other much it's just like the old days when we saw each other just about every day. A few other of the "old timers" dropped by and it was just like old times.

Conversations eventually turned to blogs, and Paul mentioned Cousin Steve had one (for the record, "Cousin Steve" is Paul's cousin). Steve owns a store in Waltham called The Outer Limits--which I would have linked to had his store had a website--and writes a blog called "I Ain't No Oprah", which Paul said to check out. I did, and now it's linked in the right column.

Next weekend will be another reunion when John and Kile come up from Virginia for the weekend. We'll be joined by some other TotalCon friends for what hopefully will be a fun day.