Celebrating Little Kat

This morning we celebrated Little Kat's birthday. There were some gifts that were delayed for one reason or another. For example, Little Kat got to open the huge box we had in our computer room. It was a weight bench. However the dumbells that are to be used with it are still being shipped.

Little Kat also got some type of Zombies game for the PC. I think he plays the same game on his iPhone a lot. So does Momoko. I got Little Kat a few gifts. The main one was a handheld radio. It runs on batteries and can also tune radio station audio. With some cash gifts from friends. Little Kat purchased himself a new power cable for his laptop.

Although we had red velvet birthday cake around lunch time, we also took Little Kat our to eat for dinner. He chose Friendlys so that he could get ice cream as well. They had a seasonal special where they served ice cream out of Frankenstein's head. You get to keep the Frankenstein mug when you are done. Of course Little Kat got that. Momoko also picked up one of those mugs for her classroom. All in all an eventful day.

Killer Traffic

I got tied up at work the other day. So I did not get to leave on time. That's ok I thought. I would just drive home and have a nice dinner with Momoko. As soon as I got on the highway, I knew I was in trouble.

In fact, I knew I was in trouble well before getting on the highway. The thing was a parking lot. It took a long time just to get from the on ramp onto the highway. I turned on the radio. Apparently they shut down a few lanes on the highway. If you do that in rush hour around here, traffic just halts.

In the end I somehow made it to the right hand lane. Then I inched by for an hour. Eventually I just drove off on the shoulder and took the next exit. The back roads got me home a lot faster than if I had to wait it out. It was still a very long and painful ride home.