Another set of our friends is calling it quits on the Bay Area and leaving the state. I was absolutely amazed at the speed with which they acted once they made the decision to go. Within a month and a half they had their house on the market and it sold 9 days [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Weekend Wonders category.
A Tale of Two Volunteer Gigs
WildCare held its annual Nature Lovers Ball fundraiser last weekend. Steve and I get to go mainly because Steve is WildCare’s tech guru; he makes their multimedia presentations go off without a hitch. I get to go because:
a) In the past, I have helped set up equipment and manned the video camera
b) I’m cute and [...]
It Turns Out the Trouble Isn’t the South. It’s Me.
Example number two of why Steve can’t take me anywhere.
Recently we went to a lovely dinner party at a friend’s house. It was a post-holiday, meet our new baby kind of dinner party, with friends from the Lucas days. As we were sitting around chatting before dinner, the TMX Elmo was introduced. [...]
An example of why Steve can’t take me anywhere
Our first stop after leaving the Nashville airport during our trip “home for the holidays” was dinner at Cracker Barrel. For those uninitiated, the Cracker Barrel specializes in Southern cuisine, featuring chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken, and fried okra, all available as part of the traditional “Meat and Three”. (That’s choose a [...]
Lawyers Gone Wild. . . Programmers Not So Much
Last weekend was MPOW’s holiday party. It was much like last year’s party: same band, same food selection, same open bar. This was absolutely fine with me because I had a great time last year. Frankly, I had a bit too good of a time last year. The open bar is [...]
Just His Luck
Steve has some of the worst luck of anyone I’ve ever known. From the extreme badness at his FPOW to the day a G-D-SUV took off his side-view mirror while he was driving to a meeting with a friend who would win the evening’s prize – a PlayStation 2, we often speculate about just [...]
Walk Like an Egyptian
The final activity planned for our Columbus Day weekend was seeing the King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Steve is really into archaeology and particularly Egyptian archaeology and he really wanted to see the exhibit. It wasn’t coming to San Francisco but, as luck would have it, it was at [...]
Suprise, Surprise!
The second event of our long Columbus Day weekend was a surprise 40th anniversary party that my brothers and I threw for our parents. My parents knew Steve and I were going to be in town; the reunion was our alibi. The “plan” was that we were going to meet my brother (Gg) [...]
Once a Slacker Always a Slacker?
Well, that was pretty much a bust. Over Columbus Day weekend, Steve and I headed back to Illinois for a long weekend chock-full of activities. I multi-tasked when planning this trip as I’ve never multi-tasked before. First stop: my 10-year college reunion.
We took the red-eye Thursday night, arriving at Chicago Midway at [...]
Weekend in Santa Cruz
Steve and I had a wonderful weekend in Santa Cruz. Microsoft’s company picnic for Bay Area employees was held Sunday at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and included an unlimited ride pass! Since Santa Cruz is a good 2 hour drive from home, we decided to splurge on a hotel room for Saturday [...]