5/20: Celebrated Inna's big 30th birthday with Liz & Jav with a dinner at Green Street Grill.

5/15: Checked out the annual ArtBike show at CMAC.

5/13: Visited the new and excellent Davis Square Indian eatery Namaskar with Inna.

5/11: Completed reading the surprisingly valuable "Sartre for Beginners".

5/7: Took mom to the BPL to hear the National Trust for Scotland's head curator lecture about several of their properties.

5/6: Went to the MFA with mom during her two-day visit to Boston.

5/5: Drove for the first time through the new New Chardon St. tunnel, the Central Artery Tunnel, and over the Zakim bridge!

5/3: Dinner at Chili's with DargonZine writer Dave Fallon.

5/2: After an excellent meal at Cafe of India, spent three chilly hours in the cold as Inna sang at the CRC's Bridges Alight celebration. Then warmed up with Inna, Mike, and Allison and a Macallen 12 at Finale

4/29: My first interactive portfolio review at the New England School of Art & Design.

4/28: The DargonZine Summit ended on Monday, and Rhonda and I visited the Texas State House before I headed back to Boston.

4/27: On Sunday we continued writing, and I got up to 3,250 words before we went into Austin for a river tour and viewing the bats leave the Congress Ave bridge.

4/26: We devoted most of the weekend to developing and writing a new story arc for DargonZine. On the first day I got about 950 words written.

4/25: After Friday's working sessions, we explored the ¾-mile Longhorn Caverns, went cliff-jumping at Inks Lake, and went star-gazing at the Eagle Eye Observatory.

4/24: After half a day of working sessions, the DargonZine crew spent the afternoon on Lake Travis, swimming from a rented party boat.

4/23: Spent the first half of Summit arrivals day at Hamilton Pool with Rhonda.

4/22: Spent most of the day traveling to Austin's Lake Travis for the 2003 DargonZine Writers' Summit.

4/21: Biked 52 miles down the Claire Salstonstall Bikeway, all the way to Brockton.

4/20: Acquired 9 new Sartre and 2 new Nietzsche books from someone who was throwing them away!

4/15: Spent the first 80-degree day of spring enjoying several biking firsts: Stopped at Turtle Pond on Enneking Parkway, rode to the summit of 635-foot Great Blue Hill (the biggest hill in the Boston area), and rode 2 miles through the swamp on the old Burma Road, and over Route 128 on the abandoned "Bridge to Nowhere"! Four pictures in Cycling Photos

4/13: Rode 35 miles the length of Mass Ave from Dorchester to Lexington with the UJP / Bikes Not Bombs protest of the war on Iraq.

4/5: Checked out the Boston Bicycle Show at the Cyclorama.