The walls are painted, the dining room furniture has been placed although I'm already starting to rethink the arrangement, and right now I'm sitting at the computer (which I've set up here in the living room, using the rather large t.v. as a monitor: yes!) eating some of the copious leftovers from last night's visit to Senor Wong. I am apparently the only one in my family who wants to deal with restaurant leftovers. Ridiculous and fortuitous.

It was my parent's anniversary weekend, so after hitting Wong last night we walked over to Cirque de Solei, where the eight of us had seats in the second row.

What I saw of the show was pretty cool, but unfortunately about halfway through we heard sirens in the background... and they had to evacuate everyone to a nearby parking garage to wait out the tornado warning. Picture white pillars everywhere, paint peeling off the ceiling in envelope-sized chunks. I resigned myself to not seeing the rest of the show basically immediately, and after about an hour they made it official and we headed back to Wong to retrieve our cars.

There were some seats available this morning, but not together and not in the second row, so we ended up accepting the refund. I guess that's a free hour of Cirque de Solei then?

For my own entertainment I've been playing Red Faction Guerrilla a.k.a. Explosions on Mars, but I've also been reading a fair amount, most recently God is Dead — the August selection for Noble Joshua's book club. It had some good bits.

I checked out China Mieville's The City and the City a few weeks back — I think he may be my favorite author these days — but it wasn't quite what I expected. I wanted a hundred little ideas, but as far as I could tell there was just one big one.

I'm reading a Tim Powers book at the moment, since he's apparently one of Mieville's influences. It's been slow-going so far though, not because it's bad but because there's been so much to make sense of. Crossing my fingers.

Well, I suppose I should go look at curtains. One of the houses across the street doesn't have any either, and I'd like to be able to look out at the street occasionally without creeping out the neighbors.