Well, her in-laws (and her sister-in-law and niece-in-law) were all in town and so she’s been busy. We all met up for dinner today and it cost me less than the dinner I had by myself in Boston’s North End. I think I know her big secret, and the secret is I WANT A NEW LAPTOP. Well, I want my laptop back and then I want to sell it to her when the new Intel MacBooks come out. The rumor on the intarweb is sometime this fall.

OK, so it’s not her secret, it’s my nefarious scheme, but whatever. Those of you who are coming here because Mariko’s not posting: this is as good as it’s gonna get. I can’t cook, I haven’t sewed anything since the teddy bear I made for my ex-fiancee about 14 years ago, and I don’t think I’ve knit anything other than a lopsided scarf in grade school. I can’t understand why no one believes I sewed a teddy bear. I can’t believe I put a whole bag of stuffing in that thing.