Saturday was the last day of our recuperation. Now Liz and I both
feel much more up-to-snuff. On Saturday morning we went to visit the
new Jordan’s in Reading. To say that Jordan’s is a furniture store is
like saying the USS John F Kennedy aircraft carrier is a boat.

Well, YES technically its a furniture store, but its also got a trapeze school in the lobby! There’s a Richardson’s Ice Cream shop
and a Liquid Fireworks water fountain display every 30 minutes. The
theme of this store is “Beantown”. This means everything is covered in
jelly beans. I think I read somewhere that there were six million jelly
beans. Wally the Green Monster is there — he’s captured a life-sized
Yankee baseball player in his mitt and his mechanical arm keeps feeding
the player to Wally’s mouth. In the Boston Public Garden is a wonderful
statue of George Washington on his horse. In Jordan’s there’s a statue
(made of jelly beans) depicting Elliott and Barry on the same horse.

Additionally Liz and I both like the furniture they sell. Its all of
a uniformally high quality and you can find almost anything you need.
Their prices aren’t low but they’re not unreasonable either.

We ate lunch at a great luncheonette in the store. They had a menu
that looked like it started off as a standard greasy-spoon menu, but
metamorphosed in to something influenced by Thai and California
cuisine. They have large booths and we enjoyed it thoroughly.

Today we’re trying to take it easy until tonight when we go trick or
treating. We also have to attend our friend Parris’ Halloween party.
We’re not sure how long we’ll stay but we’ll visit for a while.

This morning I got a good deal on a one-shot coffee maker. Its
Melita’s One:One and it makes decent coffee and tea. The deal was that
if we spent $45 on the giant coffee/tea sampler JCPenny would throw in
the coffee maker for free. They said it was normally $65. I thought it
was a pretty good deal so we got a red one.

Its red. How gorgeous is that? Anyway, I always feel lousy about
wasting so much coffee because I only drink a couple of cups out of a
pot. This will be better. Liz will also be able to offer guests coffee
or tea. She likes it too. She doesn’t normally drink coffee or tea but
she might enjoy the iced tea it can make.

More on Halloween later.

And I’ve tried Doom 3 — holy mackerel what a terrifying game!!

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