Daily Doings at the Line of Death Bar & Grill

Yesterday, we went shopping at the Mall at Fairfield Commons, in Beavercreek. I try to avoid shopping at malls because there just isn't a lot of stuff there that interests me. Okay, there are a few clothing stores there that I like -- Eddie Bauer, Abercrombie & Fitch, Structure, American Eagle Outfitters -- but I didn't go clothes shopping. I needed to get next year's calendar pages at the Franklin Covey store. My wife wanted to go to a few stores as well, so we put Maria's car seat in the stroller and did one lap of the mall. We came out with a pair of shoes for Rebecca, clothes for Maria, and some Disney DVDs for us -- Schoolhouse Rock, Beauty and the Beast, and Snow White. (Oh yeah...and some Godiva truffles for Rebecca since it was Sweetest Day.) That night, instead of going out for dinner, I went to the Dorothy Lane Market and brought home some yummy heat-and-serve food -- herb-roasted beef tenderloin, green beans almondine, grilled portabella mushrooms, and twice-baked potatoes.

Today, I cleaned out the refrigerator and inventoried its contents, one shelf at a time. I now have a spreadsheet that lists what I have in the fridge, and where it is. In some cases, I know when I first put it in there. I understand that future models will have built-in computers. If they add a wand or built-in barcode reader, that would be perfect -- the fridge can take and keep the inventory for me. I also have a cleaner fridge, since I got rid of stuff that was no longer appetizing or edible. Meanwhile, my wife was watching Trading Spaces and complained about the designer who spray-painted a couch pink, left it outside to dry and became ruined because it rained that night. What was the designer thinking?

That's quite a far cry from ( what I did this weekend five years ago. )