I’m trying to remember all the stuff that went on this weekend, but I’m sure that I’m going to miss a bunch. To me, it seems like all the weekends end up that way; we bounce from thing to thing, and lots of good, interesting stuff happens that I really want to blog, but I never seem to have time.

Thursday night, I was to go out and play volleyball, but the gym was closed, so I ended up going straight to the bar where the crew would have gone after the game. Friday was Jen’s night to go play at the same gym, and while the it was open, there was nobody else there to play. She ended up going for a walk.

Saturday, the two of us went out for a nice dinner in Del Mar. After two individual nights out, it was really nice to have some time together. Jennifer has done a great job of setting up date nights each week for the last month or so.

Sunday, our friends M. & K. dropped off their son C. for the night, as they were scheduled to give birth to their second baby early this morning (Monday). We still haven’t heard how everything went. As Jen was putting the two four-year-olds to bed, I went out to meet my friend R. As I write this, I’m realizing just how many nights I’ve been out this week–very unusual for a married-with-children guy like me. This coming week won’t be much different, as there are more evening events on the way.

Tonight, for the first time since college, I actually went into a library for the purpose of checking out books. As I spend time looking at great pictures on Flickr, I am very envious of some of the artistic ability of the photographers. I would really like to develop that ability for myself. I’ve generally approached photography as a way of capturing and preserving some of the beauty I see in the world. I would like to take the next step and develop the ability to create rather than merely capture. I checked one book on the history of photography; it has a nice selection of classic photos, and was one of the few books they had that was not about Ansel Adams. The other book was drawing tutorial; I think learning how to draw would help me plan out images I would like to create.