Monday morning, Monday morning, closing in on me..
Friday night: Amy and I go to the Barrymore, roughly at the drop of a hat, to see She & Him, Zooey Deschanel's band, out of curiosity and feeling like local delegates of cadhla who would wonder why the heck we hadn't gone. Opening act is very, very twee female singer/songwriter. During one song in a slow country tempo she sings "I've never drunk the ocean, but the ocean might drink me", and Amy turns to me and sings, along with the walking bass, "glub, glub, glub". Hilarity ensues.

I am sort of 'meh' about She & Him; I'd read that the principals originally got together to record a cover of Richard Thompson's "When I Get To The Border", which is awesome, and that they sort of had a 60s folk-rock thing going on. I don't know what the Isthmus meant by that, but I imagined chiming twelve-strings, psychedelic Hammond organ, pretentious lyrics. I like that kind of thing. Instead they are in a sort of oldies/bluesy/Tin Pan Alley/country retro-Americana vein that I just don't really warm to. But Amy likes them, and we're at least sitting down so I can doze and half-listen.

We get home and discover that fairestcat, lovelokest, and izzybeth have been burgled, and head over with wine, vodka and sympathy, not these things are of tremendous use but, you know. Better than nothing.

Saturday and Sunday morning: relaxing, cleaning, and waiting for mellybean71 and sultrysong to arrive, kids in tow, which they do around 10:30 at night. There is food and drink and catching up. In the morning we have a leisurely breakfast for 6 - with brats, since this is Wisconsin after all - and send them on their way to the House on the Rock and points West. (They'll turn around once they get to the Pacific, basically.)

Then I put Amy on a bus to points East (Cedar Point) and then even more West (Alaska). Do some work. Walk home with a Red Eye from Ground Zero; on the way I see a tiger swallowtail, and a bright green grasshopper which lets me get down close to it and look as it paws the sidewalk deciding where to jump. Camera battery is still dead, oops.

Home is very quiet, and rather empty.