Thanksgiving '24 Travelog #3
At the hotel in Falls Church, VA - Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 11:20pm

We're checked into our hotel for night now. Actually, not just tonight but the next 4 nights. When I was planning out the details of this trip I considered moving hotels every night to be closer to what we were doing the day of or the day after.... Then I ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving '24 Travelog #2
37,000' over Iowa - Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 12:15pm

Well, our flight from Oakland actually did leave on time today. Right now we're somewhere over Iowa and still on track for an early arrival in Baltimore, Maryland. I had to look out the window to make sure blurry vision wasn't causing me to misread the flight map....


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Thanksgiving '24 Travelog #1
OAK airport - Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 6:20amHawk and I were up early this morning, like alarms set at 4:30am early, to begin our Thanksgiving trip. It was still pitch dark out when I checked Uber and Lyft at 5:10am to roll to OAK airport. The fares were ± $100. I chose Lyft and... waited. It was still pitch dark out at 5:15am ( Read more... )

The season finale of Breaking Bad's season 4 was an epic episode. It was full of drama, tension, suspense, action, and- most importantly- plot resolution ( Read more... )

After Wednesday's bomb cyclone failed to deliver locally the violent weather its name suggests (though it did pack a wallop in Oregon and Washington) today a steady, soaking rain has set in. A look at the forecast shows that it's likely to rain here for the next four days. We could get several inches of rain over that time. The Sierra Nevada ( Read more... )

Yes, it's been a while since I've journaled about watching Breaking Bad. And yes, I've skipped ahead over a dozen episodes. There's hasn't really been that much to write about. But one thing that's been building over Season 4 is just how much of a stone-cold killer Gus Fring, played by actor Giancarlo Esposito, is ( Read more... )

Today I closed another one of my credit cards. This one was the Citi® / AAdvantage Business™ World Elite Mastercard®. Yeah, that's a whole lot of marketing-speak right there.

Unlike the Chase Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority card I closed three days ago I've only owned this card for just over a year. Also unlike that Southwest Airlines affinity ( Read more... )

Today an atmospheric river hit the SF Bay Area up through the Pacific Northwest to Seattle. But it wasn't just a normal atmospheric river, it was a bomb cyclone. While these arguably over-dramatically named phenomena brought high winds north of us on up to Seattle, they were close to a nonevent here in Silicon Valley. We got 0.1" (one-tenth of an ( Read more... )

Who remembers Marie Callender's? Okay, probably few people outside of California. They're a restaurant chain and a brand of ready-made frozen pies you can buy at the supermarket ( Read more... )

LiveJournal has been sending me little nudges for the past few months encouraging me to write more. For example, I saw one like this today:

You have been writing for 2 days now. Write a post today (19.11) and extend the uninterrupted series!
Here's the thing, though. My writing streak isn't just 2 days, it's 230 days. I've written here every day ( Read more... )