I spent the morning of Memorial Day at the pool with gorgeous weather, a cup of Starbucks coffee, and a good book.

And a with lot of sun, as I realized somewhat too late, so I got burned.

Listening to two Bulgarian Economics PhD students:

"Защото consumption level ... е равно на investment ... ръсте growth ...".

"Това е когато price level ... плюс q без i-w ... когато имаш current level".

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and this weekend is the start of the summer season. The weather is excellent; it's close to 90 degrees.

I made a summer lunch: baked caprese salad (slices of baguette with tomato, mozzarella and basil) with an insalata mista from radicchio, arugula and cumcumber.

We had a little bit of wine left from last night (Luigi Bosca, one of my favorites) and it was a delicious meal.

A few weeks ago I bought a present online, a Dutch book to be delivered in the Netherlands. Since bol.com, the largest Dutch online book retailer, canceled a similar order without notice last year I tried Bruna.nl.

I won't bore you with the details but online shopping is definitely new for Bruna and I was disappointed with how slow and unresponsive they were.

Anyway, today I received a paper receipt (factuur) for that order. It's pretty cool that it arrived because it was addressed to "Durham, NC, Engeland".

Somebody in the Dutch post service must have understood that this shouldn't go to the U.K. but to North Carolina instead.

(I've blurred our address for privacy reasons).