Anastasia met Alexei and I on her way home from work.  All together we tried to find an ATM that would take her [physically] large paycheck.  We finally succeeded in Old Town Takoma Park.  While there, we stopped by the ice cream parlor.  Alexei had a scoop of strawberry mango, Anastasia had two scoops of chocolatey something or another in a waffle cone, and I had a lemon flavored shake.

Naturally, this impromptu excursion shot any chances of me working, but I'd say it was worth it.  Walking around a shop or two, grabbing some 'healthy' eats, and watching the Metro zoom by was the best possible thing for my growing fam this evening.

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For some reason, Alexei and I were both starving this morning when it came time for breakfast.  Before I even had a chance to start my bowl of cereal, he had finished his Cheerios and was asking for seconds.  It's been a long time since I ate that much cereal, but today I even had two full bowls before we were through.

I remember vividly sitting in Mrs. Odesky's kindergarten class and sharing what I had eaten for breakfast.  All the other little kindergartners said they'd had a bowl of Trix or a Pop-Tart or something normal like that.  My answer was four bowls of Cheerios.  That's right, a little fat 7-year-old kid ate more than his teachers.

My days of four bowls for breakfast are thankfully finished.  In a small way, breakfast this morning brought back the good old days.  No doubt, my son will soon be the age I was.  Maybe then we can share eight bowls between the two of us.

One of the values I find in my all-to-often reading of Twitter is the diversity of information.  Take twecipe.com (or its Twitter counterpart @twecipe), for example.  A brilliantly executed service to find recipes.  All one has to do is feed it a list of ingredients and a recipe will pop out.

By itself, that is pretty amazing; Anastasia was in love with it the moment I mentioned it to her.  However, the cool part for me came when I read the rest of the story.  Niall Harbison has succeeded in coming up with a truly useful idea and implementing it.  The fact that it only cost $300 and took five days from concept to reality is icing on the cake.