if you'd rather hold on to your pride We're being super-keen this weekend and attempting our first camping outing of the season. It's not supposed to be terribly warm or sunny, but we're armed with tarps and brand new tarp accessories (top quality poles and extra rope) so we're going to create a little camping village for ourselves and bring lots of warm clothes to keep ourselves warm. After a few instances of being caught in the rain last year, we figure we're prepared to plan the perfect shelter. I'm looking forward to it; camping is always a nice project to put some planning time into. Already I spent the evening prepping food for our meals (it makes it easier to pre-cook certain things), hauling out camping gear from storage, and we hit a couple stores for some additions to our gear (fancy new headlamps!).

That's the update.  | ¶ 10:06 p.m.