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- I took a mental health half-day on Friday. Helped a bit. Did not have a lot of luck in finding a place to relax, though. Settled into one place - until a pile driver started up next door. Found a different park...until un-predicted thunderstorm sent me scrambling. Tried a tea shop...until the iPhone they had plugged into the sound system got a flood alert and everyone jumped out of their skin.
- We took ARR on a trip to the Philly area. Hit up the Please Touch Museum, which was about as awesome as I remembered from a museum conference years and years ago. Weirdly, ran into Fairest there with her kid. She doesn't actually live there.
- We have a new family game. It's called "Customer Service Swan." ARR found a giant fiberglass swan, which he sat on, because what else do you do with a giant fiberglass swan. Then he demanded that we pretend to be angry customers. (I have no idea where this came from.) We had to complain about things. Now, I was expecting an anthropomorphic swan, since when he's a dinosaur, he can talk. But no. When the customers complained about their ill-advised purchases, the customer service swan did what a swan would do. He honked in our faces. ...I now kind of want to replace our company's customer service reps with swans.
- We hit Sesame Place yesterday. It was...really crowded. Unpleasantly so. After some dismay at standing in line, though, ARR got used to the idea, and he and I had a really pleasant afternoon hanging out and chatting and then riding the occasional water ride.
- We took ARR on a trip to the Philly area. Hit up the Please Touch Museum, which was about as awesome as I remembered from a museum conference years and years ago. Weirdly, ran into Fairest there with her kid. She doesn't actually live there.
- We have a new family game. It's called "Customer Service Swan." ARR found a giant fiberglass swan, which he sat on, because what else do you do with a giant fiberglass swan. Then he demanded that we pretend to be angry customers. (I have no idea where this came from.) We had to complain about things. Now, I was expecting an anthropomorphic swan, since when he's a dinosaur, he can talk. But no. When the customers complained about their ill-advised purchases, the customer service swan did what a swan would do. He honked in our faces. ...I now kind of want to replace our company's customer service reps with swans.
- We hit Sesame Place yesterday. It was...really crowded. Unpleasantly so. After some dismay at standing in line, though, ARR got used to the idea, and he and I had a really pleasant afternoon hanging out and chatting and then riding the occasional water ride.
