It was a mostly relaxing weekend, which was a Good Thing between busy weeks at work. No major purchases to report, either, though I do want to find a dealer with silver and red ’04 Priuses sometime so I can see what those colors actually look like. Not that I have any imminent plans requiring that knowledge or anything like that.

We did make a quick trip to Costco and bought a blister pack full of phones to replace our existing cordless and answering machine; the old cordless had a wonderful “out of range alarm” feature which beeped if you walked far enough from the base unit for the remote to lose signal. Unfortunately, the alarm also sounded if the base unit lost power, which was not a good thing at 3am. The new cordless units put a message on their display if you try to use them and they don’t have a signal — that seems to be more reasonable behavior to me.

I finally made it home — then we made Shabbat and had dinner — and now I’m sitting in front of the computer reflecting for a few minutes before shutting down and relaxing.

It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been back at work for a week — vacation seems like it was a long time ago. It’s almost as hard to believe that Monday was a quiet day, and Tuesday wasn’t really busy…because it’s been run, run, run full out since then!

XM Bootcamp has been interesting, too; I was surprised by how much I liked the 60’s on 6 and the 40’s on 4. I expected to enjoy the 50’s on 5 more than I did; Laugh USA didn’t surprise me at all.

Now, it’s time to turn to other pursuits; tomorrow, we start Torah study again (Proverbs, which should be interesting) after a one-week break while the Rabbi was out of town (we finished the Twelve Minor Prophets just before the end of the year — we really zoomed through Joel, too!). Sunday morning is busy, too. And we have some paperwork to get done before Sunday. But other than that, this should be a quiet weekend — and I’m quite ready for it!