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a delightful dinner away from .. that sort

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

We had pricey pizzas for dinner tonight to celebrate my darling wife's "75th" birthday.

We were shown a seat close to the front of the restaurant, and were near the reception. At one point I noticed a woman ask to be seated "away from the children" (she made her request obvious through rolled eyes and body language, though she attempted to mask her words - it was either us or the two ladies in wheelchairs two tables over, and the waiter who served her commented that hers was "a common request"). A while later the maître d’ seated a family with kids next to the woman's table. I hope for her precious sake she survived.

After dinner we took the boy for a ride on his "balance bike" and strolled up the boardwalk by the water. Night is already coming more quickly, and there is a slight fragility to the warmth in the evening. Autumn has shown its hand early this year.