crab dinner

today's accomplishment: spreadsheets for insectifuge and complex lotion calculation. i need a scale that can indicate smaller increments than the one we got.

went to point roberts memorial park for the evening walk, which was lovely -- i hadn't planned to go into the water, but the siren call was too strong, so i whipped off my tshirt and gave it to the paramour to keep dry, and waded in. too cold of course, at first, but that immediately faded to a refreshing coolth. very clear water with the tide just coming in. lots and lots of little crabs who scuttled away, but quickly returned to try and eat me. they are so tenacious, the little buggers; they'll grab onto a fingernail and i can lift them entirely out of the water then.

books in progress:

david m. pierce, angels in heaven -- just a few pages more while eating. it's a little too self-consciously hardboiled.

mandy aftel, essence and alchemy: a natural history of perfume -- not in the mood for it today.