President’s Day weekend was a wild one in the Kingsbury household. Birthday activities for kid one included dinner Saturday at Lucky’s in Mendota (her past birthday favorite Don Pablo’s mysteriously shut down), roller skating at Skateville on Sunday afternoon and tickets to the Wild-Nashville game Sunday night (birthday pictures are up in the private album).

Sunday was not kind to me, as I nearly lost all functioning of my right wrist in a rather embarrassing sequence of events. First, I played several hours of Guitar Hero III (a new birthday present), which made the wrist a little sore. Then I decided to try roller skating again after a thirty year lapse. Two bad falls and the wrist was really hurting. Finally, the Wild made their game way too exciting, causing much clapping with the sore hands. By the end of the night, I couldn’t even unzip my jacket when we got home.

Some ice and Advil helped me recover enough to catch a 7am flight to LAX today. Lugged a bunch of video gear to the school and drove to Hollywood for a late lunch at Canter’s Deli on Fairfax. We drove by Pinks first, but there must have been at least 100 people in line. A nice drive down Sunset to the 405 completed the day. The Kings are on the local FSN channel tonight versus Phoenix, but I’m almost out of gas and the wrist could use some rest.