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(Electric Fetus, The Brunch Rap)

This past weekend Amanda and I celebrated Barack Obama's upcoming birthday (Aug. 4) by having brunch twice. And test-driving scooters.

Saturday we returned to the Social House, finally meeting up with some friends we've been trying to get together with since April. Doesn't seem like it would be so hard to do, but evidently it was quite a scheduling nightmare. The first time we ate there, the coffee was miserable (thankfully they've rectified that situation), and I had the "whole farm breakfast sandwich" (yes, those are belgian waffle sections instead of bread). I'll probably have to go back to the sandwich again at some point, but once I discovered how good their shrimp & grits were (with andouille sausage!), it has been hard to stray from that. Next time, though, I'm going to have to go with the savory bread pudding, topped with shrimp. I had a bite of it, and I can't wait to go back to eat the whole plate.

Sunday we went down into Kirkwood to check out a friend's house and neighborhood. It was nice, we drove around a bit, looking at some of the homes for sale, and some of the hookers walking the streets at noon on a Sunday. What can I say, we love diversity. If we do end up in Kirkwood, it will certainly be better than living across the street from the Department of Corrections Transitional Housing Center, and next door to a meth lab. We ate at Sun In My Belly, which is exactly as cute of a place as it's name would suggest. They had a jazz guitarist with a female vocalist for your Sunday Brunch Entertainment, and I had an omelet with cheddar cheese, red onion, avocado, and pulled pork. It was awesome.

As I mentioned above, we also test drove some scooters. Actually, we took turns on the same scooter. It was pretty fun. We went over to ATL Scooters, just for the hell of it, and started looking at some of the ones on display. We talked to a salesman for awhile before getting him to take us across the street to the Kroger parking lot for a quick test drive (they don't normally do test drives on Saturdays, but he was nice enough to oblige us anyway). We're not really in the market for a scooter, but if we were, it would certainly save us a bunch of money. For starters, they only run about $1700, which is about $1700 less than I was expecting. Secondly, despite it's small gas tank (1.5 gallons), it gets insane mileage, to the tune of 80 miles per gallon. That's 120 miles to the tank, at a whopping $6.50 or so, to fill it up. That's about a month of driving to and from work, for $6.50. Unbelieveable.

We were a bit shaky at first, but started to get the hang of it. I'm sure with a little bit of practice, we'd be pros. And yes, mom, we wore helmets. I've got a picture of Amanda riding, I'll have to put it up later, after I get home.