The verdict was that “it’s probably better than sitting around watching tv all night” so we took a chance and drove to the far side of the city and beyond and found ourselves in one of the little bedroom communities on the outskirts of town, driving through a dark gravel road and ending up at a tiny little community hall in the middle of the middle of the middle of nowhere.

Turns out, CC had uncovered news of a local “trivia night” being held out there and wanted some chumps for a team. So, Karin and I made the trip.

Of course it was all fun and friendly enough, but the whole night I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was crashing something, like I had showed up at a party uninvited or strolled into a wedding mistaking it for the hotel restaurant.

We got second place in the trivia contest tho.

The kid and I went to the gym on Saturday and otherwise it was a pretty much lazy day. The dog had endured some dental surgery earlier in the week and she was still in a phase of sleeping off the meds.

I spent a couple hours in the basement playing around with some new audio equipment that had arrived on Friday, too. I may write more about that later, but I am rigging out a bit more for a audio project I am working on and the pieces for that are coming together—and they are fun to play with beyond the project, too.

That night, Karin and I were back at the Jube for the second week in a row. This time we had tickets for a travelling Broadway production of Moulin Rouge. It was solid.

Sunday morning the ice was calling, so we put on our running spikes and went out for an eight klick run.  Even with cleats on the trails were borderline dangerous, and one of our number took a minor tumble. No injuries to report, but it was not a productive training run so much as a nice-to-be-outside adventure.  That said, I really need to start doing some productive training runs soon.

More fussing with my audio toys that afternoon after I figured out I could hook my violin into the mix, so I recorded some silly riffs and had some fun making as much noise as music.

Then the Kid and I got hurtled into grocery duty… which led to dinner duty… which led to burning off the rest of the evening just idling around the house. Some weekends just start hot and end with you nearly dozing off on the couch, I guess.