We spent about a million dollars to take the kids to Lego KidsFest yesterday. What a bad idea. It was basically about as cool as going up to your room and playing legos for two hours. Also Mac was being kind of a turd and kept running away from me in the convention center.

So basically, I would only recommend Lego KidsFest if you are like 100 percent committed to Lego as a lifestyle or something. Otherwise, you can probably find cool pictures of Lego statues to look at on the Internet.

Tonight we had dinner with our good pals Tom, Liz, and their kids, who match up nicely with ours.

I told Liz how happy I'd been that afternoon when I had an unexpected 30-minute wait at my OB-GYN's office where I'd finally shown up for an annual exam appointment, only six months late.

"I'd brought my book, so I was just really happy," I explained.

Liz laughed at me. "You know you've crossed a bad and scary line," she said, "when going to the gynecologist counts as FUN."

I guess that's true. I even wore holiday socks, which I enjoyed looking at while I was in the stirrups.