The Visible Woman...September 17, 2003

It's hard to get fourteen people, aged one to eight-six together. But not impossible.

Bucca di Beppo. I spotted it in a strip shopping center on my walk. This chain restaurant is the ultimate in family style. They deliver big platters of food. It overwhelmed the six people in our party when we visited the location in Austin. Also, it is lound and busy. If kids sreamed, who would hear it?

So we gathered there, on the 'last day he would be 86' with my dad. Little B. Jeff is eighteen months old. In between were a couple of other generations.

It was loud but there were several people to baby the kids, to take Jack outside for a bit. The big platters of food disappeared. Our noise was absorbed. The wine was welcome.

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

A Journal from Austin, Texas. A Project of LBFFP Stealth Publishing.
food	reading	writing	time	exercise	health and mood

learning to love books	large gathering It's hard to get fourteen people, aged one to eight-six together. But not impossible. Bucca di Beppo. I spotted it in a strip shopping center on my walk. This chain restaurant is the ultimate in family style. They deliver big platters of food. It overwhelmed the six people in our party when we visited the location in Austin. Also, it is lound and busy. If kids sreamed, who would hear it? So we gathered there, on the 'last day he would be 86' with my dad. Little B. Jeff is eighteen months old. In between were a couple of other generations. It was loud but there were several people to baby the kids, to take Jack outside for a bit. The big platters of food disappeared. Our noise was absorbed. The wine was welcome.
JUST TYPING I look up and down the table. I can only hear the conversation at my end. The food and children pass around. The wine bottle. The tales and love.
		Food Diary. *breakfast* cinnamon twist roll *lunch* two bowls of salad, banana, three or four ounces cheddar cheese, fifty or sixty goldfish, some grapes. *dinner* a little bit of all the following: penne pasta with chicken and artichokes, tortilini with a meat filling and sauce, veal marsala, chicken parmaagnia, salad, garlic bread, Chianti, tiramisu, green beans. It's really hard to figure out how much you are eating at these family style places.
		Time flies.... The day kind of disappeared with a walk, a shower, reading, going out with family and friends.

		Reading. Two Sides of the Beach by Edmund Blandford is an attempt to balance the British and Canadian invasion story and the German defense (defence, it's a British book). There is a bit of a prejudice against the Americans in it all, I think, but this ought to give a balance to the other accounts I've read and their American perspective..
		Nope. I did make up a character's name for fiction, though.
		Exercise Walked at least three miles. Did some stretches and sit-ups.
		Have felt pretty good with some ups and downs in mood.