It's Freaking COLD in Kansas City

Like, I don't think it got above 10 today, and it was 4 downtown when I woke up at 7AM. I biffed it on the clothes - I brought totally the wrong stuff. I did bring gloves, which is helping. When I checked the weather report from home before I left, it looked like it would be snowing on and off, so I left my leather jacket at home and brought a rain shell that it good for slogging through the snow and scraping the car and stuff. But there is no snow in the forecast now, just bitter cold, and this rainshell doesn't have any insulation. On top of that, it seems that whenever I go to dinner, I'm sitting near enough to the door that I get an arctic blast whenever anyone comes in, and so I never really get warm. On top of that, my hotel room heat had not been turned on, and it was like 50 degrees in here when I arrived. Now, a day later, it's more reasonable. And on top of that, I hear that I get to come home just in time for another snowstorm. What a winter it has been.

No Malaysian Brunch, but a good one nonetheless

We had to go to Johnny D's. We couldn't raise the Malaysian place on the phone this morning, and we thought they probably didn't open until 11 or so. That's too late for Katherine, who needs to nap between 11 and 12. So we went to Johnny D's, and had a wicked good time. There was a three piece jazz band, and Katherine loved them. She kept swaying back and forth to the music, and dancing in her chair. She attracted a lot of attention, especially from the staff, who got a real kick out of our little dancing baby. Corby and Lalitha left from JD's, and went off to find a Korean grocery store we remembered over in Union Square before heading back to the wilds of Vermont. It was a fun visit, and we hope they come back soon. I've put a picture of them up on the home page, and no, Corby was not drinking from the sippy cup, it just happened to be on the table.