The Wife and I will be on our way home from LA within the hour.
See you in a couple days.
Update: Free intarwebs at the Super 8 in Green River, UT. W00t!
Update the 2nd: Home again, home again! Jiggety-jig!
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Just when you thought posting couldn’t get any lighter here at the ol’ Blah and Stuff, LLC, I’m here to tell you that it will do just that.
Time has come for The Wife and I to bundle into our Honda Civic and hit the open road to that glittering city known as Los Angeles for our annual road trip to see The Brother-in-Law and Auntie Kate. This time around it looks like we’ll have extremely limited access to teh intarwebs, so the best you’ll probably get out of me is a few tweets and some goofy pictures (both of which I can do with my cell phone, you see?).
For the record, my fame spotting abilities are next to useless. In all my trips to LA I’ve only seen the back of Zach de la Rocha outside Fred 62 and Melissa Joan Hart at the Suss yarn store. And those were only because somebody else pointed them out. I have hope, though — the last episode of LA Ink showed Corey Miller discussing his impending vasectomy with his wife at Home, which is right up the road from Chris & Kate’s house. Maybe I’ll get to take a blurry phonecam pic of Kat Von D or my current tattoo TV crush, Hannah Aitchison, while I’m there.
We leave at the crack of Sunday, stop over at the Luxor in Vegas for a craaaazy night of not-doing-anything-in-Vegas, and arrive in Los Feliz on Monday sometime after grabbing that first In-n-Out burger and strawberry shake in Barstow. Plans are to leave LA on Wednesday, the 26th, in order to have plenty of time to decompress and do stuff around the house before heading back to work on October 1st.
We’re very excited. Updates as they are possible.
I’ve been scanning and posting a few rock climbing pictures from my days in Massachusetts (and a few from here in Colorado). There are some great shots of me and my friends from those days (most notably Miracle Ed and Hanh).
Makes me wistful.
And a bit depressed… As Ed put it to me “You should get skinny again. You were pretty.”
As of right now, the notions of getting skinny and getting back into climbing are almost a chicken and egg proposition… Nothing to it but to do it, right?
(Did I mention rock climbing is how I seduced my wife? It’s somewhat true.)
Once, when I was small and living in the winter home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, I thought I’d like to be a clown. Nowadays I mostly subscribe to the “clowns are creepy” philosophy, though.
But when I come across a story like this, it warms the cockles, to be sure:
“White Power!� the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?� the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour�.
“White Power!� the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?� the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
Awesome! And this happened in Knoxville, TN — my old neck of the woods.
Good times this weekend.
The primary highlight was a video game tourney and home-cooked Korean barbecue at my friend Peter’s house. Peter (a former co-worker) and his fiance, Ann, laid out quite a spread of delicious kalbi, rice cakes, kalbi, fried fish, kalbie, kimchi, and some totally yummy kalbi. We also played a bunch of video games, but most of that part of the night is kind of fuzzy. I know I played the wrong screen on 4-man Halo and therefore got pwned.
One part that is clear is that The Wife pronounced “I want one!” almost as soon as she touched the Nintendo Wii. The Wife gets what The Wife wants (especially when it’s something I’ve been forcing myself *not* to buy up to now), so we now have a shiny new Wii and the sore shoulders to prove it. (Here’s the tip for those of you searching for a Wii: WalMart. I never go in the place, generally, but our local Wally World had about 10 of the things.)
Now we just have to find something other than Wii Sports to play on the thing…
Oh, and yesterday I came into work for a half day. Boo. Big launch tomorrow, so it’s crunch time…
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