palace of winds

I had yesterday off work, and had vague plans to clean — I have a few boxes to go through, and vacuuming, a little laundry, etc. But Sunday evening Jo came over and we had lots of pizza and played Spore and visited our Sims — and she brought over a few books to lend me: the first three Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, and Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris), to be exact. I started browsing through the first one a bit during Brothers & Sisters commercials, and after Jo left around midnight began reading in earnest…

And yesterday around dinnertime, finished the third book. It was a glorious day off.

I even managed to drag myself to the grocery store after watching House! Though their entire produce section was in desperate condition: wrinkling apples, small hard nectarines, and bananas all spotted brown. I couldn’t find a single banana I trusted to be edible in the morning, and ended up coming home with no fresh fruit at all. Still, I got most of the other things I’d gone for. And there was a little snow falling so softly, as many flakes drifting up as down, the beautiful light swirl that charms you into thinking that this winter thing, in Minnesota? Not so bad after all.

Speaking of productivity, over the weekend I finally managed to edit the team sorting video I promised you in, what, November? And voila!:

It was shot on my digital camera (and I had to process it twice through Premiere, for one reason and another), so the quality is not great at all, but there you go. I’ve been kicking around the idea of getting an actual video camera lately, because it would be fun! and useful! Except I’m worried that I’d get one and then never remember to use it…