I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

This morning I got up to an early (for me) start when KF made a phone call in the room. I don’t get how those silicone earplugs and help me filter out sounds, but when it comes to talking, I can pretty much hear it all.

Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed, and was presented with the option of going with him to Burlingame to get the brakes on his car fixed. And I figured, since he probably has to wait a couple hours for the job, we could stroll over to Burlingame Avenue to a yarn store where I got a couple of yarns I haven’t been able to find anywhere else. I needed just a little more to lengthen a scarf I made, and probably another skein of an orange one so I could make a pair of mitts or something. Yay. Win-win for everybody.

So we had a quick breakfast, and headed off. We got to the mechanic’s at 11am, and heard the drill. We left at about 11:20am, and proceeded to walk to Burlingame Avenue. We decided to walk through the residential area and re-lived a bit of our house-hunting fun from a few months back. Here’s the route we took. The walk started out fine, but it got progressively hotter. It’s hot in Burlingame! It was probably about 26-28°C but it isn’t as humid as it is at home, so that made the walk more tolerable.

We had lunch at Barracuda, because it was the first restaurant we saw. It was here about three years back that I first realised that while sushi is a sophisticated food, having sushi on a date, especially a first date, is probably a bad idea because over in the US, the makis are rolled and cut up way too big and there’s no elegant way to eat it. You either have to bite it in half – unglam; or stuff the whole thing in your mouth – lagi unglam.

Anyway. After some food I was all ready to hunt for my yarn store. I even brought that almost-complete project along so I could keep working on it if we had to wait. When we got to the store it was closed.

Very annoying. I walked 3 miles total, under the blazing California sun, and the yarn store where I got the yarns that I really can’t find anywhere else online, is closed.

UGH!!!!!!!!!! No win-win!!! It was more like walk-walk-walk and more walk!

So when we got home I made bacon+scallop spaghetti.