mmerriam | Dashing Hither and Yonder

And so a hectic and fun filled weekend ends. I still had not completely recovered from my first trip to the Minnesota State Fair on Thursday, when out to karaoke we went on Friday. I did sing. No, really I did. I have now sung karaoke and that's that. There is a reason I play Bass Guitar. I can't carry a tune in a basket with handles. Yet oddly enough, I wasn't the worst singer there by any stretch. Meanwhile, the lovely

careswen did a smoldering rendition of Peggy Lee's Fever. She had an admirer or two after that. We didn't get home until after two in the morning.

Saturday we tried to start getting ready for the impending visit of

careswen's mother and brother next Friday. Then a group of us went to see King Arthur at the discount theatre in Hopkins. I tried very hard to refrain from criticizing both military tactics and the idea of what Arthur and his knights were as presented in the movie (and Gwenhwyfar a Woad? What?). Basically it was a decent action movie, kind of The Seven Samurai with a round table. After the movie, the six of us went for coffee and chatted, and when the coffeehouse closed, we retired to Merriam Manor for Vienna Roast coffee and fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies. Again, well past two in the morning before we crawled into bed.

Then today it was an afternoon cookout with some people from Vision Loss Resources. The conversation was stimulating, the food fantastic, and the company good. When we got home at five in the afternoon

careswen and I both fell on the bed and lay there for about an hour.

A very good weekend indeed. I need to go to bed now.

In Peace
Michael