I has beaten the faucet!

Took me most of the long weekend, and I didn't get a bunch of other stuff done, but I have prevailed. Finally. Now I can really get going on building the wine cellar.

Well, it's starting to look like our drink of the evening is American sparkling wine, and not Canadian whiskey.

Yay!

So on Wednesday I got to go on my first Boeing test flight ( Read more... )

Lunch: Dim Sum with the 'rents at House of Hong. Pretty good dim sum; notably better than the last place we tried. VERY good shrimp balls; less good shrimp dumplings ( Read more... )

Last night we had the best Indian food that I've had since I moved from LA (one of the very few things I miss about that town). It's from this little vegetarian place called Punjabi Sweets, probably within a mile of our place. Mmmmmm.

Something spurred a bit of curiosity in the ol' synapses, and I thought I'd check in and see how my old faculty advisor was doing...what kind of research he was publishing, where he was teaching, etc ( Read more... )

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AmberCon NorthWest was a source of great fun and amusement...and the plague. If mr_nice_gaius was Patient Zero, then I must be Patient N+1. I didn't get the real plague until just about the time I stepped out of the car and into my apartment. But first I had a cold. Then the cold mostly went away, and I had the nasty nasty stomach flu...so weak I could ( Read more... )

The canoe trip started out bad, ended up worse...but in between, it was pretty nice.

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EDIT: link fixed.