Determined to typify society's lukewarm adoption of blogging, I have practically abandoned my blog in recent weeks! I hereby throw out a few sops to my blog, starting with this backdated entry to memorialize Linda Havrilla's visit.

Yes, I choose to load the true blame for my lack of recent blogging squarely onto the back of my dad! In theory, the 'rents were to have visited Jeanie and me in Tampa a little over a week ago, but then Dad apparently crippled himself playing with his two grandsons and spent the week crouched precariously on the floor instead, unable either to stand up or lie down comfortably. To this I say, "boo!" Wuss. Old Man.

At any rate, the various activities that had been planned for the parents' trip went largely undone, but Linda Havrilla was still in town. She and I met for lunch on Monday, and I snapped this fine photo of her as we prepared to motor out of my apartment complex:



We ended up eating at a local place called Circle's, which was reupted to be good by Jeanie's colleagues. It was indeed OK, though I avoided the Italian-centric portion of their menu and thereby doomed myself to suffer through yet another mediocre Tampa-area Cuban Sandwich.
- posted by John @ 5:18 PM