Despite a small snow storm on the trip to the airport — which abruptly cut off about halfway there, thank goodness, and only delayed our nicely padded trip by about 20 minutes — our journey to Faerie (i.e., Southern California, where we eat and drink well and, in the blink of an eye, suddenly wake up to realize it’s time to go home after seemingly no time has passed and certainly none of our plans of things to do have actually happened) was uneventful. No security problems. No delays on take-off. No blizzards. Arrived at SNA to be picked up by Jim and Ginger, got back to their house, carried luggage upstairs … and relaxed to some wine and cheese.
I slept in late this morning, until about 10 (11 Denver Time). After I was up and showered and dressed, Katherine choreographed us into singing Happy Anniversary (Flintstones/William Tell-style) to Jim and Ginger.
Nibbled on coffee cake, read some papers, chit and chatted, then Margie and I headed off to Main Place to do our Christmas Shopping, since the whole Cunning Catalogue Scheme just didn’t gel this year.
And it all worked pretty well, and between the mall and some places around it, we’re pretty much done. Yay! Just have to get things wrapped. And with all the retailers doing deep discounts, it was pretty reasonable, cost-wise.
So I do have some plans for the two weeks, aside from the inevitable running about and partying and that sort of thing.
- I want to finish loading our 2008 pictures up, annotating them, and getting them into Flickr. That’s been working fabulously, and I want to keep up the momentum.
- Related to the above, I need to look at some similar picture management stuff for Jim — I may set him up with a Flickr account, too.
- I need to get Ginger’s iPod talking to the house stereo system.
- I’d like to visit the “Old” Getty Museum, and check out the antiquities. It’s probably been at least a decade, probably quite a bit more.
- I’d like to visit the Pomona campus (whistling the Alma Mater, of course), wander about and tsk-tsk all the changes, and grab a Juanita’s Burrito for lunch.
- If I have a ton of spare time (ha!) I’d seriously like to upgrade my Movable Type installation.
Given that this is, after all, Faerie, I will count myself lucky if I get two or three of these done. But it’s good to have dreams.