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Well, after a quick breakfast Omaha and I went out with the girls to Half-Price Books to return a paper-bag full of children's books they'd outgrown, programming books I'd outgrown, and fiction books nobody was ever going to read (Tom Clancy's Bear and Dragon; Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full), and to buy more. Yamaarashi-chan picked up a full set of The Chronicles of Narnia, and Kouryou-chan picked up a nicely segmented but slightly abridged copy of The Wind in the Willows, one of her favorites as well.

We'd somehow skipped lunch and so, desperate for food, we drove to McDonalds. Yeah, I know, we diss MD's a lot, but this was an emergency, man! I had just a burger, the girls got happy meals, and Omaha had a nightmare. She had to try three times to get the order and they still didn't get it right. She went inside and they still didn't get it right. The only part of her order they didn't screw up was the Sprite. Yeesh. So, that was our annual trip to MD's, not to be repeated for another year or so. The burger reminded me of why I don't eat there.

We headed up to Vivace's to hang out with some people, meeting the very lovely amythis (whose name I did remember by thinking of her as "a-myth-is", even though she claims nobody ever does), who writes fascinatingly well-charactered Harry Potter slash, and the equally fascinating Lion, who runs the Futures Project, a discussion site for the implication of practical biocybernetics. I found it fascinating that, even though I can't remember visiting this particular site before, some of the pages on the index come up as "You've read this already."

I went home, and Omaha decided to go hang out with a friend, so it was up to me to give the girls dinner (ravioli and meat sauce), Girl Scout cookies, and give them baths. We've been having an ant invasion, a slow-motion sort, and I finally got tired of it and sprayed the entire line of lineoleum around the bathroom with diatomaceous powder, a non-toxic but very effective ant solution. They've been quiet since.

Sleeping children.

I read to them, one chapter of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and one chapter of Mole Meets The River. Yamaarashi-chan did her eye exercises, and Kouryou-chan had to do them too. I don't think there's any harm in doing so. They fell asleep in my bed. Before Omaha and I moved them into their own beds, I had to take a picture, they were too cute.