Seattle's new meat locker.

Kouryou-chan and I went to the new Seattle Public Library yesterday evening while we waited for Omaha to get through a one-hour appointment of some import. The library has been getting some rave reviews recently, with the New Yorker calling it "The first adult building of our century," the LA Times saying, "The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained with a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision." And the librarian herself gushes, "The design runs counter to the traditional notion of a library as a place devoted solely to books."

( Welcome to the machine. )

Kouryou-chan and I went to the kid's section, which was the only part really made for human beings: friendly colors and good lighting predominated. She didn't want to read books or even play on the computers; she wanted to play with the other kids there and the stuffed animals strewn about the reading space. Good for her. We left after about half an hour there and headed out to pick up Omaha.

There wasn't much food at home, so I scrounged up a jar of vegetable broth concentrate, some Aborio rice, and some vegetables, and made a really delicious vegetarian risotto. Mmmm... carbs. Kinda hankered for some pancetta in there, but I can live: omaha prefers without. Comfort food for sure. And enough leftover for one or two lunches. We had dessert-- cookies for Omaha and me, a popsicle for Kouryou-chan. Kouryou-chan and I read Fox in Sock together, and then it was time for her to go to bed. She was pretty good about it, too.

I finished Tron. Well, okay. I "finished" it in the sense that I reached the final boss level, but I have doubts that I'll be interested in defeating the "boss" so much that I'll actually bother. Pretty good. The last "big fight" in the force-field generator room was much more fun than any of the boss levels.