herveus | A fine weekend

Father's Day weekend was splendid. It was also the first date with my girlfriend.

Just to be clear, I'm doing this with the enthusiastic encouragement and consent of my wife. As in, upon discussing the concept with names attached, I was commanded "Then ask her out". So I did. And after six plus months of regular phone chats, we finally were able to get together. We are not experiencing marital difficulties -- just some envelope expanding into new territory.

Alys Mackintoich would be the girlfriend. The weekend went swimmingly, and we look forward to repeat engagements. Ocean City, NJ, is a pretty neat town. The dolphin watching cruise was a dry hole for dolphins, so we have a voucher to do it again. The cruise was otherwise pretty nice, module a stiff breeze (yes, I did end up a touch windburnt). Got to see friends I have seen very little of over the pandemic.

It turns out that Alys is a hockey fan, so we watched the Stanley Cup game Saturday night. Alys is also a herald (how I got to know her to start with), a fencer who can't any more, and a lawyer for a day job. We've known each other for the better part of a decade.

Wheee!