Nothing much new this weekend

I worked almost all weekend. Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday morning. Actually, Margaret and I both worked together. She finished her projects for school on Thursday, preseneted them that night, and she's in the clear for 3 weeks, so she works with me now. It's nice, to be running like mad around the restaurant and see her face. We make eyebrows at each other and point out the foibles of guests. (My two favorites from yesterday: The teenage girl crying into her salad while she explained to her parents that the car they were going to buy her was not adequate. The teenage girls who told each other, while I was standing there, in the most utterly scornful voice imaginable, "Well, I hear she's WAITRESSING now. Ewwwww." Awesome.)

Saturday my friend Sam had a table with three little girls who fell in love with me. The oldest was probably 9, but they were really sweet and drew pictures for me. Mano, Roman and Margot, there Mom was named Sabine. They were really sweet, really fun and they ran up to me and hugged me before they left. It kind of made my day. They also REALLY didn't like Margaret, nor the fact that I had married her. They were upset that I had given her a ring and they took it off her finger at one point. Margaret was bemused, until they dropped it under the table. But then Roman jumped under the table and retrieved it, so that was ok.

We went to a Pirate restaurant in Silver Spring on Saturday night, for date-night. It was pretty great. The service was awful, but the drinks were large enough that they could get away with that. There were a bunch of pirate re-enactors as the servers, which was funny and also seemed to open up a strange sub-species of Americana. There was fire-breathing and singing and general nonsense. Also some fake lesbians came before we left and sat right near us. We wished Ami was there to give them scornful looks. Definitely a place to bring Frank and Ami when they come.

After dinner we walked, or stumbled as the Pirates insisted on saying, over to the movie theatre to see The Simpsons Movie. It was good, a really well animated and fun 90 minute episode of The Simpsons, always worth-while. Lots of great little things, among the funnier and less mentioned in the film, the way the old lady is blowing into Homer's mouth when he wakes up. When the people from the bar and the church switch places when the apocalypse arrives, and every scene with Bart and Ned Flanders was just swell.

Also, everyone swing over to Vern's site and check it out, TWO new reviews from the weekend.