I'd give every dime I made to see her silver hair shining

[sovay]

I had an incredibly frustrating evening at the phone store. On the other hand, I got a picture of the mall doing its best to look like the Precinct of Amun-Re à la David Macaulay:



selkie and I conversed until the talkie window ran out of battery. When I ordered my favorite seasonal sundae from the Scoop 'n' Scootery, they included a little paper bag of free cookies with a friendly handwritten note. And when spatch got home from work, he presented me with my birthday present courtesy of the recent half-price Criterion sale, the DVD of Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946). So on balance, I must have had a good day.

P.S. Rob has just informed me that our jackhammer-slammed summer had a theme.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I hadn't heard that Captain Sensible record in eons.

What is your favorite seasonal sundae?

[sovay]

I hadn't heard that Captain Sensible record in eons.

I'd never heard it! It followed directly on spatch subjecting me to Captain Sensible's "Happy Talk" (1982).

What is your favorite seasonal sundae?

All of their sundaes have clever names, so this one is the Sweater Weather: pumpkin ice cream with caramel and cinnamon whipped cream and a slice of pumpkin pie, plus a couple of additionally sugary toppings that I always ask them to hold because it takes me two rounds to eat this sundae no matter what. They only have pumpkin ice cream in the fall, starting in October and ending whenever in November they run out. It's my favorite flavor of theirs; sometimes I just order it by itself. They do offer other sundaes that use it as a base, but I have never liked any of them as well. Basically they started as a late-night ice cream truck catering to college students, so just about everything they serve is slightly outrageous and the size of a person's head.