A friend called while I was in the back garden swearing at a thorny, recalcitrant wild strawberry vine that was growing over some of our “real” plants. He asked what I was up to. I responded, “We’re out in the garden finding all sorts of mystery weeds to uproot.”

There was a pause, and he responded dubiously, “Well, I guess that sounds like a good thing to do on a Saturday.”

I thought about it after I got off the phone with him. It’s not so much the uprooting weeds, it’s the results afterwards.

Which is rather the point of a lot of things, I think.

Adam Curry writes: “Tuesday my new Xserves arrive. This is good news for users of schoolblogs, my jamby and diaries.com.”

Since the latter is Esta’s weblog host, that’s good news for her too.

…was a very cold (55°) and very wet graduation ceremony at MIT.

Sorry I didn’t blog yesterday. It’s definitely the time of year when it’s easy for outdoor projects to consume every iota of my time and attention. Even if it does hit 95° (which is, I think, a record for the Seattle area in June). More rocks to dig in today, and a garden (someone else’s) to visit.

A belated happy anniversary to my parents. Esta arranged for the anniversary to be called out on the loudspeaker at the baseball game they went to on Thursday night.