Megan arrived lateish Friday night, having driven the Nissan out from New Hampshire with her Dad. Breakfast Saturday at the Milk Bar was disappointing: a plateful of glue cakes. They ran off to get some shopping done for Megan’s apartment, and I did some Econ homework. Homework, now that’s funny. An “inferior good” is something the demand for which decreases as income increases — that is, things you tend to stop buying as you make more money. Like auto parts.

Saturday afternoon, we drove up to Fond du Lac to try to catch some of the ice boat regatta… by the time we got up there and had lunch at Schmitty’s Oar House, and got out onto the ice, the races were over and the boats were being packed up, but we did see a few DN’s zipping back and forth, and got a good look at Deuce, one of the big stern-steerers out there — very impressive looking boats.

Saturday evening we had dinner at Harvest, which some say is “the best” restaurant in Madison. I’m not so sure about that, but the black tie crowd from the annual Frosty Ball made their way in, and we did have some exceptionally good wine (a 2000 Olivier Leflaive Pommard). Today we had a much better breakfast at Bluephie’s (although I remain loyal to Just For You), and drove around looking at houses and such until it was time to take Megan’s dad to the airport for his flight home…

I have pretty much decided to drop Portuguese in favor of a second planning course, basically so I can get on with what I came here do to. I also felt that my slightly aging brain can only absorb a limited number of widely differing subjects simultaneously at this point… Also, we’re planning to go to Mexico for spring break, and Portuguese would probably only confuse me further — I should be able to find someplace to practice my Spanish once or twice a week… The second planning course is Ecology of the City. Now I’m off to read and write a bit.