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Back From SFO

October 9th, 2006 by Mike
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Just a quick post for now… We are back safely from San Francisco. Thankfully, the house is still standing–no exploding water heaters, no massive wake of feline destruction, nothing. I suppose it’s a good thing we got in when we did, as the news now tells us a plane got diverted to Cleveland as a result of some security scare. That would have fouled our return to kitties but good.

The remainder of our time in wine country was simply marvelous, and filled with a delightful lack of televisions, internet, and cell phone coverage. High points include our romantic lodgings atop the oceanside cliffs of Albion, tour at Handley, visit to the indulgent “Bubble Room” at J, and utterly perfect dinner at The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma. I suspect that I’ll get around to writing about it a little bit sometime soon (which probably means I’ll never get to it, based on my track record).

Don and Kai are married (for a whole day now). Hooray for them, and about time too! I ended up standing in for a replacement groomsman, which was a pretty good time overall. I got taken to my first football game (with 72,516 in attendance), enjoyed hanging out with Don and his friends, and generally did my best to keep Don from either jumping off of or passing out and falling down the cliffside behind the wedding site. Ah, good times. :-) Anyway, we wish the two of them heaps of all that good marriage stuff, blah blah blah. Not that they need my additional blessing, as they are about as perfect together as any two crazy kids could be, but I figure good mojo is always welcome.

Lots of photos were taken. Coming soon: maybe I’ll find the time to sort and upload some. Stranger things have happened!

Too much new stuff on the Tivo this week: Galactica, Dr. Who, Lost, Eureka, Studio 60, The Office, Robot Chicken, etc. etc. I think I need a vacation day to catch up with everything… :-P

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  • 1 gieves Oct 10, 2006 at 10:36 am Gravatar

    Welcome back!! It sounds like you had a lovely, lovely time!

  • 2 exilejedi Oct 10, 2006 at 10:45 am Gravatar

    Indeed.

    Alas, I am now back at work, comforted only by wearing my “extra bitter” t-shirt acquired at Scharffen Berger.

  • 3 gieves Oct 10, 2006 at 11:02 am Gravatar

    Oh, but that should serve as a great source of comfort!! ;-)

    In a not-entirely related thought: I need to arrange a time to drop off a book at your place tonight or tomorrow. It is intended for [info]butterandjelly’s upcoming trip, and she said that you’d be getting together on Thursday.

  • 4 exilejedi Oct 10, 2006 at 11:17 am Gravatar

    News to me, but it’s not like I wear the calendar in my house. ;-)

    Tonight is possibly better as tomorrow we’ve got German.

  • 5 mokatz Oct 10, 2006 at 11:20 am Gravatar

    That could quite possibly be Mike’s Perfect Shirt.

  • 6 gieves Oct 10, 2006 at 11:30 am Gravatar

    Ah, fair enough :-)

    We’ll talk.

  • 7 exilejedi Oct 10, 2006 at 11:33 am Gravatar

    clicky clicky

    As soon as I saw it, I said, “I need to wear that on my first day back at work.” And so I am.

  • 8 reasie Oct 10, 2006 at 1:33 pm Gravatar

    seconded! :) Can’t wait to see you in it.

  • 9 aquamindy Oct 10, 2006 at 4:26 pm Gravatar

    actually we are out tonight for wine group.

  • 10 northawke Oct 13, 2006 at 1:09 am Gravatar

    and yea and happiness and much good vibes from me to them, too… I’m glad to hear the news. :) And I’m glad to hear you had a good time!