I made it back from La Quinta (it's about 120 mile drive each way). The weather was nice over the weekend, (though it rained on Friday) and I even sat by the pool for a bit yesterday and finished "A Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth George, which is, apparently, the first of the Inspector Lynley mysteries. In this book, additional background information was offered on the main characters that I didn't know from reading the later books in the series.

The other book I had with me is "The Strange Affair of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Between it and Dracula, which I have been listening to on my iPod, I'm taking a stroll through creepy late 19th century literature and enjoying it alot. Maybe I'll head back to the early 19th century for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein next?

A bunch of us ate at a very cool restaurant called the Sand Bar in La Quinta on Friday night. It looks like it hasn't changed much since Frank, Dino and Sammy ate there in the '50s. The Palm Springs area may be booming, but they know their target audience.

Nanners and Noodles are glad to have me home, and this looks to be a busy week; but the highlight? Thursday, I am off to see David Sedaris.

Hope everyone has good things planned for the coming week!