August 26th: Mensa day in Ottawa: went to lunch with some lovely people (and one with limited social skills, so situation normal) at The Table, a buffet vegetarian restaurant where you pay for what you dish up for yourself by weight. With about 20 dishes to choose from, all with every ingredient listed, it was vege paradise. Made up for missing this month's Mensa lunch in Wellington. Otherwise it was a rest day. Hot and stinky humid, so finishing my current (reading) book and writing a second draft of my short story were as much activity as I wanted. Urs and Nellie both started their new jobs today, so it was pretty quiet round here and lovely to have them home again at the end of it. Ended up watching lots of 'Jono and Ben at 10' on YouTube last night, so trying again for a movie tonight. Post script: 'Rise of the Guardians'. Enjoyed it.