To celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary last night, Jen and I had dinner at Cafe du Jour (review here) in the South Side. Excellent. The tiny storefront has a small, walled courtyard in the back, complete with trees, ivy, a pond, and a foundation. The food was fantastic, and quite inexpensive.

Folks have been inquiring about our car purchase. Yes, we got a Ford Focus. Basic specs: infrared ZX4 SES sedan. It’s a fun little car, and it’s nice to have a manual transmission again. Gas mileage has been very good (running around 30mpg in the city, 35+ on the highway), and, most importantly, Seb likes the “hot red car-car.” Oh, and the trunk is massive. We managed to stuff all of our climbing and camping gear back there without problems.

Also, I received the print edition of Comment earlier this week. Very nice. Good work, Gideon. I hope the WRF can continue to produce the print journal.

Posted on 10 August 2005