I'll necessarily be busy, of course, but I won't be heading back for a fortnight. ^_^
I did, of course, celebrate my (temporary) return with excellent sushi - an old friend's daughter celebrated her birthday yesterday with Big Sis, who lives not far from said joint, out in Pleasanton. Indeed, some particularly creative rolls, and beautiful too. I'll have to leave a TripAdvisor review. =:9
*hug!* It's always so good to see those familiar sights again, howsoever mundane they may be, like sitting waiting for the 23 back "home", and being slightly pleased with myself for remembering which stop to go for, as Glen Park BART sits at an intersection, and Muni buses have this delightful habit of showing their route as, say, "23 Monterey", regardless of which direction it's headed in, so if you're unfamiliar with the route and stop, you do want to check, lest you wind up rushing for a bus headed away from your destination. ^_^;
^_^ It's so good to be back, even if just for a fortnight. Even for just the simple delight of looking outside at a bright blue sky.. gods, that's so welcome a sight. ^_^
You were old enough to fly in 1980? ^_^ (Actually, I think the first time I flew alone was somewhere around then - I was going to visit my stepsister, then living in Napoli, where, if I recall correctly, she eventually met the guy who would become her husband) I think it's largely as it's been for a long while, modulo the highly welcome extension of BART to the airport itself, though the first time I saw SFO was around 1994 or so.
I should probably hold back from the temptation to go coding at the beach, though - not only because it's not hugely warm just yet, but mainly the way sand gets everywhere. ^_^; Still, if there's something useful I can do just with inspecting the code, that I could do on the iPad fine..
Silly rabbit. Know ye not that I am Ye Olde Fart? I first flew in 1972: I went to Texas and spent part of the summer with an aunt and uncle (doubly-related: my mom's brother and my dad's sister). I remember it specifically because it was the Munich Summer Olympics and it was the year of the Israeli athlete massacre. 1980 was my high school graduation. In my junior year I was hanging out with a friend who was a senior. After he graduated, he and his mother moved to San Fran. When I graduated the following year, he called me up and told me he'd enlisted in the Air Force and had a couple of weeks until he had to report, so I flew out and we spent a week (mildly) terrorizing the town. I soon lost all contact with him, only to regain contact with him in '12, finding him in DC via Linkedin, of all things! I get to see him every year now that I'm in a study at NIH and conveniently, his mother, who had moved from SF to Hawaii, had moved again from Hawaii to Scottsdale! So my wife and I got to see her when we were in Phoenix for
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When you flying back to ol' Blighty???
PS: Sorry for the chilly weather, you missed a lovely week...
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I did, of course, celebrate my (temporary) return with excellent sushi - an old friend's daughter celebrated her birthday yesterday with Big Sis, who lives not far from said joint, out in Pleasanton. Indeed, some particularly creative rolls, and beautiful too. I'll have to leave a TripAdvisor review. =:9
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I am up to my ears in work++, unclear if I can make it to the City, magic 8 ball is saying unlikely... :-/
CYa! (Eventually :)
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Have fun!
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I should probably hold back from the temptation to go coding at the beach, though - not only because it's not hugely warm just yet, but mainly the way sand gets everywhere. ^_^; Still, if there's something useful I can do just with inspecting the code, that I could do on the iPad fine..
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CYa!
Mako
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