Bring on the Swedish Meatballs

Sarah and I went to Ikea, the Swedish meatball restaurant/furniture shop, this weekend to buy some things to prepare our house for all the coming excitement.

Whilst there, we rapidly realised that our plan to buy two china cabinets would be slightly complicated by the 44 page assembly manual. I have had trouble putting together bookshelves from Ikea, so building a functional china cabinet with glass, drawers, shelves and doors was perhaps not a good plan. The ikea price includes the cost of the item, but not the cost of marriage counselling, tears and broken plates from my complete inability to build things.

Luckily, on our way home, we stopped off at the Amish market we bought our table from, and they had a perfect match for us. This seems a better plan....

Decorating the Nursery

This weekend, Sarah and I took a quick trip to Great Falls, on the Potomac, to enjoy the beautiful February weather.

We spent the rest of the long weekend decorating the nursery-to-be in our spare room with Dinosaur decals. The decals are awesome, and look really good in the room:

Biometrics

On Friday, Sarah and I headed over to a small innocuous building in a Mall somewhere in the urban sprawl of DC. The building, between a Pizza Hut and a Subway, had blacked out windows and an unimpressive look. I was excited, as this was where I was going for biometric scanning to update my green card. I like the science in NCIS and Bones, so I couldn't wait to see the approaches that would be taken to biometricaly scan me. I imagined DNA readers, retinal scanners, maybe one of those cool machines they have at airports now to scan just under your clothes. I imagined there would be blue lights and infrared cameras.

It was disappointing when, after waiting briefly in line, I was fingerprinted and photoed by a very pleasant federal worker, and sent on my way. This was neat and all, but I somehow felt my high tech science hopes had been dashed....