I got hit by a bad cold this weekend - bad but fast, so I was able to attend the upshersin. But it did keep me away from the computer (and from a class I was supposed to teach on Shabbat, with no way of letting people know I couldn't attend. Bah.)
But I did have dinner with my brother in celebration of our joint Hebrew birthday this past Thursday (birthday was Wednesday night, but things happen) and Jonathan gave me a couple of food writing books. We gave him a book of poetry.
And I found that knitting at parties is a good thing - I had fascinated children watching me create a sock. :)