Bags are packed, clothing laid out to wear on the plane.

Gotta get a "nap", and then catch the towncar in to the airport.
Boi-Bank, here I come.

The prospect of sun and far-more-conducive surroundings is....
alluring.

I'll post more when I'm done digesting it all...
And maybe link some of the 550+ pix I took, too.

Nice to be back and all, but....
I wasn't ready to come back!

=X>}=

As in,.....
Sheesh.

Spent the Thanksgiving week down in Baja (Ensenada), soaking up sun and generally avoiding much serious thought.  But, of course, that never lasts....

My local-area symphony debut is coming up mid-month, and there are tantalizing rumors of another filmscore and videogame gigs scuttling around the edges, too.  Ve shell zee....

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.... in many respects, I'd rather be back in Berlin.

Oi woozn't done!
Heh....

Safe, easy flights back all the way around.

I'll be back.
Gah-ron-teed.

0:>)=

I'm almost a little sad to be coming to the end of my visit, but then I know I'll be back here and Germany and Europe again within the coming year, so....

It's all guuuuud.

(Oh, and the German/Berlin Starbucks make THE best tunafish wraps - MUCH better than their Stateside counterparts!!!)

I've been here since Thursday morning, and have been having a VERY niiiiize time indeed.
Seen Miss 
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I'm down here in So Cal visiting my daughter.
I flew into Palm Springs.

Before I left Seattle, they said it was about 111.
When I LANDED, it was about, oh,....

115.

That's known in most places as AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
(or 46 for you Euro-types).

But yanno, it doesn't bother me.

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I'm heading out the door to the airyport - I'll be in NYC from tomorrow through late Sunday afternoon, so for those of you who(m) have my various e-mail addresses, hold off on stuff (or at least don't send me AS much as usual) 'K?

Mucho obrigado.

+:>)=

As in red-eye-JetBlue-to-Noo-Yawk on Tuesday nite.
YEYYYY!!!!!!
Should be LOADS o' fun.
I'll be there from Wednesday through early Sunday afternoon.

Besides the stuff already planned on the first two nites, I'm gon' do my DAMNDEST to catch the opening day for Ghost Rider somewhere in Manhattan (which is Friday), and

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Saw Aida last night at the new Opera House here in Miami.

Verrrrrry eeeenteresteeng shoe.
Not 'eurotrash', but also not 'traditional' staging and sets, either -- the Nile Scene was my favorite:
you could see the Nile way upstage, and with the lighting the way it was, you could feel the heat and humidity of an Egyptian night.

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