My nephew's birthday is today, so we had a celebration yesterday evening. My sister arranged a party at a kind of play gym for children of all ages. It's run by a very pleasant couple who organize various home-made activites based on something like the old TV show, American Gladiators, combined with various Nickelodeon game shows. The husband leads the activities and talks a lot about physics while he explains things, trying to inject a charming "educational" element into the fun. As the adult who participated the most in the fun, I had to opt out of some of the activities that needed partners, matched by size. Still, I got to have a lot of sweaty fun with the kids, spinning and falling and running about! I'm even a little sore from the unaccustomed motions...

CDs listened to today:

• Charles Tolliver Big Band: With Love
• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Symphonies, disk 2 (Sir Georg Solti conducting)
• Charlatans: Up To Our Hips