Weekend highlights

A great weekend, somehow we kept ourselves busy despite not really having any plans going in... Here are some highlights:

- Heather and I had a fantastic dinner Friday night and an even better jazz brunch Sunday at a local restaurant that shall go nameless, for now, on the flat of the Hill. Dinner and brunch were so great, and the atmosphere so low key and neighborhood-like, that I don't want to start giving away the secret then see the place overrun! It's difficult to get a table at our usual brunch spots mere yards away, but this place was very accommodating and even better quality! If you really want to know, then ask nicely and maybe I'll tell.

- ND beat Washington 36-17. Now we're #13. I slept through the 4th quarter. Check out this story about Charlie Weis' inspirational playcalling, granting a dying boy his wish. The stuff of legends.

- Did you know Boston had a 375th anniversary parade yesterday? Neither did we until we ran across it while shopping on Boylston Street.

- Saw Tim Robbins-Burton's stop-motion Corpse Bride yesterday. It exceeded Robbins-Burton's usual mastery of dark and spooky atmospherics and brilliant color, and unlike some recent Robbins-Burton movies this one actually has an engaging plot and instantly endearing characters voiced by the likes of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Heather especially liked the skeleton dog, Scraps. Go see it!

- Excellent dinner at Paramount with Heather and her parents before they headed to Sudbury for the night.

- I got one of those tribal tattoos on my upper arm, it's pretty cool. (just checking if you're paying attention, mom)

- Went for a 5 mile run on the Charles Sunday morning. Need to do that more often. That would have been a better resolution at the beginning of the summer than in September.

- Bit the bullet and bought a new digital camera, the Canon SD400. Whoa, it's a lot smaller and lighter without the Best Buy security anchor attached!