Observations from the weekend

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+ Baltimore Cupcake Co.'s cupcakes are rich and moist...but the icing didn't work so much for me. The chocolate peanut butter cupcake was a chocolate cupcake with a thin layer of PB covered by chocolate icing (a little too sweet), with a dollop of PB and sprinkles on top.  Eh.  In comparison, the cupcake portion of the Peanut Butter Blossom from Hello Cupcake is a bit, well, average, but the peanut butter-cream cheese icing makes the treat.  Really.

+ It was 60F on Saturday and 70F on Sunday, sunny with just a little wind.  Good days to be out and about, so I enjoyed the walk to Fort McHenry on Saturday and to the Inner Harbor on Sunday.  Tourons (TM WaPo's annual word challenge) abounded.  I like them, I do, but could they cease STOPPING in the middle of pedestrian walkways when there are dozens of people trying to get around them?

+ The neighborhood dry cleaner has two sweaters and two pairs of pants of mine.  No big deal, right?  Except he is moving locations, and has not been answering the phone for a week. I want those sweaters back; the pants, eh.  But the sweaters I must have back.  I've got his landlord's number, who should have other contact info for him.  Grrr.  ETA:  the landlord didn't know the cleaner was moving and is not happy; has left a message and told me to give him a call back in the afternoon.

+  After reading this article at Slate, I bought a copy of Radclyffe's lesbian romance, Above All, Honor, which I finished last night.  Interesting.  I haven't decided what I think about Cam Roberts; she reminds me vaguely of Eve Dallas for some reason.  Blair -- eh, she came across as a spoiled brat.  I can only hope her characterization improves as the series goes on.  But over all, the book was good enough that I'm willing to look for more by Radclyffe.