Parking lots

Anecdotal evidence continues to suggest that the recovery proceeds apace.  The parking lot at RDU was much fuller this week than it has been in recent months. The parking lot where Graham does Tae Kwon Do, where 54 and 40 meet, and where the O Gym is (apparently it's popular with the student set), is ridiculously and increasingly more full when we arrive for class just before 10 on Saturdays.  Although, come to think of it, it's January, so gym traffic could reflect the short-cyclical New Years Resolution gym crowd more than the slightly longer cycle of economic boom and bust. The Mexican restaurant nearest our house was full to bursting last Saturday night when I went to pick up our take-out.  Then again, when we showed up with a team of 14 at a Vietnamese restaurant in Boston on Wednesday, the proprietors quickly moved another party or two out of the way to other tables and set up a 14-top lickety split. It's no time to be turning away a big table.