Jared visit!

In an amazing stroke of good fortune, Jared will be visiting this coming week! He has not one but two interviews for jobs that interest him, so he'll be coming up Monday and staying until Friday. :-) I'm so excited; I really hope these work out for him, because if they do, it means he will be back in town! You have no idea how eagerly I await that. This was a very spur of the moment trip, so I don't have a lot of time to plan fun things to do. At the very least, I hope you'll all come to BSCF this week because he'd love to see and spend time with everyone.

Just two more days until he comes!

Coffee table at last

After several months of enduring a big empty space in the middle of my living room, I finally found a coffee table on Craigslist. It was tough to nail down one I liked. The one we used to have was kind of unattractive, but it had the advantage of being very large, conducive to serving dinner on and playing board games. I couldn't find anything nearly so big in two or three months of searching, so I settled for something about three quarters the size. Its certainly nicer-looking, made of dark wood and also with a second level shelf underneath the tabletop. It could use some restaining, and I might try to get it to match the espresso color of the end tables also in the living room. It isn't perfect, but the living room is a lot more functional and complete-looking than it did without it. My dinner parties and unofficial BSCF should be better now.