February 5, 2005 – Maui And yes, we made it safely to Maui and pretty much went straight to Maui Tacos for some takeout and went across the street to watch the sunset at the park. Most days since then we’ve tried to make time to watch the sunset. And eat. A lot. UPDATE: Chicago We went to Maui Tacos one other time and they were just as good. We also went to a bunch of other new restaurants this time, missed some of our old favorites, and generally ate very, very well. Even the time we ate nothing but…
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February 5, 2005 And we’re about to board this bird and take off for Maui nonstop, where we’ll be for two weeks. This entry won’t go “live” until our return, however. UPDATE: Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Blog And so, we’ve returned. I’ve got a boatload of photos to go over and update, including a bunch still in my camera on a very large compact flash card (not as large as David’s card, but big enough for my uses). The flight return was not a simple non-stop, so we had a short layover in Los Angeles last night. Arrived in…
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Whilst wandering around in a daze I happened across a hippie shop selling “Nag Champa,” an incense used in incantatin’ by snuggs apparently. I ordered that book that Gus has written but it won’t arrive until around April 7 or so. This entry will mystify my sisters, but them’s the breaks.
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Yes, David and I attended the DSL Reports event at Dave and Busters and lived to tell the tale. Here the “Welcome DSL Reports” screen is clearly visible from the monitor in front of the restrooms, which made an odd kind of sense at the time. I won some coupons at some game, but then left my prizes behind. Actually, the noise and chaos and smoke (the whole place allows smoking) finally got to me in the end. And why, why, why no pinball machines at a game arcade? That’s just crazy. Most of the games are these stupid quasi-gambling…
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Saturday, snow. Sunday, more snow overnight. We went cross-country skiing Saturday and encountered a kind of weird snowmobiler who, muffled all up in his helmet like Kenny, seemed to be offering to set track for us. We skiied along the treeline for a while, and when we ran out of trees, ran right into the teeth of the blizzard. About 10 seconds into that, and we decided to turn around and head back. We got about 40 minutes’ worth of skiing out of it, so not bad, but not really great conditions. Maybe next time we’ll try one of the…
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I just took this picture of my husband David drinking a companionable glass of wine a short time after I finally arrived home. There was lots of snow, and thus a lot of slow, careful traffic. It was one of “those” days at work, also. So the wine was very welcome. And hey presto! I’m in a much better mood now. David’s mom is learning the joys of websurfing. I thought she might like to see her son in almost real time.
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Here you have a travel agent’s lunch if ever I saw one: an Asian plate lunch with a vaguely Asian green-tea beverage, and a funny travel book written by a flight attendant/humorist. The book’s called Plane Insanity, by Elliott Hester. Guess I have to add it to my Bookqueue now, since I’m officially reading it on my lunch hour. It was kicking around the office and was about to be thrown out in the general purge before the visit of the new VP of our section. Everyone was a little nervous. Was he going to be a harsh taskmaster? A…
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I grabbed a handful of this on my way out the door tonight – some hotel dropped off goodies. I can’t believe an office full of women wandered off and left it all, frankly.
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Fisheye is not my best look. This is what you get when you’re putting makeup on in the car on your way to an event . Hey, at least I wasn’t driving.
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We attended a friend’s son’s Bar Mitzvah today – at the very end, he and the other boy had to drink wine after a blessing. The faces he made: “Yuck. Bleargh. Nasty.” The cantor made him drink the whooole thing, and then some. In the photo, young Adam is greeted by the rest of his friends, who cheered him as he made his escape from the sanctuary at last. We have another event to attend tonight – not as happy a one, unfortunately. This is turning out to be a weekend of events, though.