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Quick notes for the evening:

1. The US version of Coupling isn’t nearly as good as the BBC version.
   It is also, however, not nearly as bad as I was afraid
   it might be. So, I mean, “there’s an upside.”

2. Erin finally opened one of her birthday albums — the new John
   Mayer release, Heavier Things. (This is the album that she was
   compelled to desire after listening to Mayer interviewed on NPR.)

   We’ve barely scratched the
   surface of the music (so to speak — damned slot-loading CD
   player!) but I’m already blown away by the design of the CD (classic
   Columbia records throwback, with late-1950’s phonograph line art and
   “COLUMBIA” set in Century (or similar)) and the liner notes
   (charming, hilarious, inspired infographics and statistics
   accompanying each song).