It's been a week since I wrote anything here because I've been spending time bumming around Lawrence with Brad and reading a fantastic new book, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Written several years ago, it's been out in paperback long enough to land in used booked stores, which is a favorite haunt of ours. 
That's what we were doing in Lawrence, plus stopping in to the Free State Brewery which is at least not smokey, but it was too crowded to be much fun. And a rather serendipitous thing happened after we were seated, ordered and were partway through our lunch. A designer I had just met two days before, working on a project together for a new client, sat down in the table next to us. Well, I didn't recognize him with his railroad hat on. But within about 10 minutes he introduced himself. I responded that I didn't recognize him with his hat to which his girl friend said, "I told him the hat was sketchy." Just another odd thing on an odd planet that is vast and small at the same time.
After a delicious lunch of pastrami on French bread and a nice porty-beer, we headed back to the bookstore where I picked up this book, along with several others. I also talked to the shop-cat, Kasper (...no, that's not his name, hmmm.) I've flown through this book. It's not a literary work of art, but it's a real page turner. Boy, those are a Godsend. That night, I read 100 pages. And then on Sunday, after the morning paper, I sat on the purple couch for hours and read 100 more pages. So much for working on stuff around the house or in the office.
Here, Brad's caught enjoying a Stone Cold Creamery cup of Chocolate Decadence (?).
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