Slept in til noon when I was woken up by Charlie who had stayed up all night in an attempt to return to a normal sleeping schedule.  He wanted to go to breakfast and so we went to IHOP, because he craved some combination of pancakes and hash browns.  Or perhaps it was the bacon.  At any rate, he didn’t even end up eating pancakes, he had some sort of veggie/egg filled crepes and I had carrot cake pancakes with a side of all the hash browns/bacon/whatever that Charlie wanted to eat.  I was mostly interested in the pancakes, which were amazingly delicious.  Run, don’t walk, to an IHOP and get carrot cake pancakes if you like carrot cake at all.  They were moist, carrot-y, and full of flavor.  I had debated getting the pumpkin ones but I was really glad I went for carrot.  Although, the success of the pan-carrot-cakes makes me think the pumpkin ones might also be exceptionally delicious and now I want to go back soon to find out.  IHOP’s marketing ploy has succeeded!  Then we went to the bank and came back to my place; Charlie took a nap and I did stuff around the house.  In late afternoon the winter malaise took hold of me and I crawled back into bed to nap with him.  He went to basketball around dinnertime and I ate dinner, did laundry, caught up on correspondence, and took a shower in my still non-draining shower.  Must get draino soon!