Thursday
Wrapped up a week of jury duty that I’m not supposed to talk about (mwaaahaha I bet you’re curious. Hint: it was a murder trial!) and picked my sister, Emily at JFK from her flight from Germany (where she lives). It took an hour to get there, but it was really easy. Yay MTA. Set her up on my awesome futon.

Friday
My one-day work-week. I spent the whole day on busywork catching up on stuff even though MHP was kind enough to process POs for me while I was out. Had a couple of meetings:
- about my fun SMTP marketing project
- the snazzy new Plugin Architecture FogBugz 7 is going to have
- a quick chat with our Tech Support lead, Rich about how I’m going to help even out the bumps of the support load.
That evening, the Mom arrived and we went out to a Chinese/Japanese restaurant on Smith Street, Chance. We took a chance (har har) and it wasn’t great. I had a lychee martini, so I was happy.

Saturday
Thanks to earplugs, both mom and sis slept well on the queen-size futon. Thanks to Fog Creek leftovers by Neuman’s and Emily’s multi-skillet talent, we had tasty baby spinach, bacon, asparagus and bleu/feta cheese omlets. MMMmmmm Emily can come cook for me ANY time :)
We spent the morning walking around 5th and 7th aves in Park Slope and had a nice lunch at 200 Fifth. Em and Mom peaced out to go see 33 Variations. Emily’s using “writing a paper about it” as an excuse to see it again. I did laundry and napped.
When they got back, we had a delicious dinner at Moutarde on 5th ave in Park Slope. It was soooo good and we were happy that the place called “mustard” gave us 4 kinds of mustard and veggie stix to stick in ‘em as a snackie. Great atomosphere and authentic cute french girl working there = ++.

Sunday
Got up earlyish again, I filled some of the time before brunch at Bar Tabac started at 10 by cutting my hair (yes, it’s supposed to look messy). At brunch we all had: coffee, mimosa, salad, home-fries, poached eggs on english muffins with Ham(Emily), Smoked Salmon(Adam), Spinach(Mom) and shared Tuna Tartare. So tasty.
A couple more pictures here.