Saturday, January 12, 2002
We eat oatmeal and cereal for breakfast, then play with our new Internet connection for awhile. I configure IPs and DNS settings. We call Brian and Kelly to invite them along on our trip to University Avenue in Berkeley so that we can use our Barnes and Noble gift cards that Sam and his mom Dianne gave us for Christmas. They decide to go, too, and Brian drives us over in their car. We strolled through downtown Berkeley and find the Barnes and Noble. Patrick buys "Exile and the Kingdom" by Camus, "Anil's Ghost" by Michael Ondaatje, and "The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War" by Adam Nositter. I bought "Kodak Guide to 35 MM Photography" by Kodak. For lunch, we stumble upon a great Irish pub called Beckett's. Our server has a scraped up nose, and Brian publically imagined that he had gotten in a bar brawl recently. "They don't call them the fighting Irish for nothin'!" However, he confessed instead that he had gotten it in a fall, not a fight. His charm was enough to change two drink orders from a soda and an iced tea to two beers.