I'm gonna tell you a story
I'm gonna tell you about my town
I'm gonna tell you a big bad story, baby
Aww, it's all about my town

Yeah, down by the river
Down by the banks of the river Charles (aw, that's what's happenin' baby)
That's where you'll find me
Along with lovers, fuggers, and thieves (aw, but they're cool people)
Well I love that dirty water
Oh, Boston, you're my home (oh, you're the Number One place)

While walking around a reservoir this afternoon, I saw a bright yellow round object in a tree. “What’s that??” I walked over and saw that it was a plastic egg stuck between two branches. While grabing it, I said “It’s an Easter Egg!”

It was last spring or early summer that we found out a coffee shop was opening in the space where an old auction house used to occupy. Because the place is practically right across the street from our place, and we do go get coffee every morning, we were very very excited. It was also not just any cafe. This was going to be run by people who already had established good reputations in the town next to ours, by taking the art and science of coffee very seriously and successfully.

I left work early enough to have a nice 1.5 hour walk in the woods with the dog late afternoon. It’s something I try to do every Friday, during spring and summer.

This park is amazing. It has little lakes, little hills, woods, rocks, and numerous paths. It’s right next to an interstate, so it is not completely quiet, but it’s very convenient for us to get to.

It’s our monthly cleaning day. We try to turn everything up side down and vacuum & wipe. We try to re-set the dirty house back to a clean house, as much as the time allows.

We were off to a vacation in Colorado last month, and we can’t remember if we made up the missed cleaning day after we came back. The electronic piano that I never play seemed extremely dusty today. My feeling is that we never made it up. Eewww.

Spring is really here. Our town is decorated with flowers on the trees on every street. It is just beautiful. It makes it that much harder to go to work every morning (where I don’t have any windows while witting at my desk).

It’s difficult, even after the daylight savings kicks in, for me to be home before dark. But I try just so that we can walk the K-dog before the darkness sets in. There are some more options as to where we can go if there’s some light left outside.

Today, we managed to walk along the Charles. It felt good. I should be able to do this more often, if only I can get my productivity engine started earlier at work.

Well sort of. I live with those boys, and they are definitely more than just roommates.

I like living with them, but sometimes, I wish they would just get a room and not be so lovey dovey all the time.

:p

There’s a coffee shop opening right across from our home, soon. The problem is, this place has been “opening soon” for about 8 months. The windows are covered with paper, so we can’t really look inside. Such a long delay has made the place look so mysterious.

We knew it had a sister shop in the next town over. We decided ventured out there for a cup of latte and some insider info.

We are having a real tough time with this little guy’s hatred for nail clipping. We haven’t succeeded in cutting any in recent months. Since his nails are, as a result, getting longer and curlier, we decided that instead of the regular forest walks, he is going to walk on paved surfaces at least for half an hour to an hour every day.

Those flowers on the trees make me miss Japan.

This has been a common view at any (non-classical) shows nowadays. Everybody has some sort of image or video recording device in their pocket, and everybody tries to take home pieces of memory from the show. I also take photos at shows, and I totally get the motivation.

It’s just that sometimes, when people try to take a video of an entire song, you just end up with this really bright screens between you and the stage, and it can be distracting. Often times, I am fascinated by how good the image qualities are on those devices that I keep staring into their screens.

Fortunately, I use the DSLR or x100 in those situations, and they have the rear screens that can be turned off…