This is a special Saturday. It's my last off for a while. My last weekend day with my guy, for however long it takes me to get a schedule that doesn't suck. The weather is oppressively hot today (damn you, Portland, how dare you get all uncomfortable on my days off??) and I think we were tempted to just sit around like lumps. Like hot, sweaty lumps. Feel our sexy.

Anyway, the urge was strong, but we resisted. Very glad we did. We had a nice day of just enjoying time together on someone else's air conditioning dime. An afternoon of running around culminated in a spontaneous decision to go bowling. The local lanes had their Cosmic on – which means that everything's laser lit, coated in blacklight, and about twice as expensive. But what the hell, it's our last weekend. It was lot of fun, although my scores were embarrassingly poor. I do not bowl well.

We're home now, and still looking at a nice long evening together – particularly if Mike digs in and stays up with me as I try to retrain myself back to late nights. Plus all of tomorrow until 3pm, which is not insignificant. I feel fortified for my week ahead.

Yesterday, as it turns out, I didn't watch a movie at lunch at all. We did around midnight though, and for the "I don't have to concentrate too hard" factor, settled on Across the Universe. Good, good movie. The musical theater nerd in me was in heaven. And, as ever, it's worth anything for even a glimpse of Eddie Izzard. Plus two alternate takes of his Mr. Kite sequence! Golden.

I now settle back with some cold water while my guy basks in the joy of his new wireless gamepad for emulation. I shall order my new monitor, and then in a bit we'll Rock Band.

Life is good.