Was in a neighborhood coffeeshot this evening. A kid was there, baby really. His older sister or really young looking mother is there too, and I hear her telling him not to hit. A minute or so later, the boy tags me on the leg. Oh well, I smile at him and say "wussup." It happens again a couple of minutes later and this time kind of pisses me off. The third time I actually talk to the guardian, saying that I'm trying to concentrate and can't do so if he's going to keep slapping my knee. That ends it.

Now I think both he and she are related somehow to the owner of the coffeeshop. So I hope I'm not banned. But the occasional annoyance helps define you by making you react. And I'd like to iterate that the kid was adorable, I just had other stuff going on.

1. The Kinks--Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
2. Brian Eno--Decentre
3. Grizzly Bear--Easier
4. Ladytron--Deep Blue
5. Steely Dan--Sign In Stranger
6. They Might Be Giants--Rabid Child
7. Simon & Garfunkel--Old Friends
8. Radiohead--Reckoner
9. Blossom Dearie--You For Me
10. XTC--Ball and Chain