With the exception of square and contra dancing (neither of which I've done since college), I've never been comfortable with dance -- but one of the delightful aspects of my relationship with uncrowned_king was his penchant for sweeping me into a dance in my very small kitchen. We were going to take a ballroom dancing class together ( Read more... )

I'm very glad I took Wolfling to see the Mythbusters last night. It was a great show. No experiments, and the only explosions were on a video clip (more on that later), but the guys were utterly engaging. It was a conversational/Q&A format, and they sat on tall stools with a UW Physics professor who served as moderator for the first part of the ( Read more... )

Wolfling and I are in the theater waiting for "Mythbusters Live" to start!

Wolfling and I are back from our trip to Great Wolf Lodge. We're both exhausted, but we had a very good time.

The big feature of Great Wolf is a very large indoor waterpark -- and it definitely lived up to expectations. Our favorite part was the Howling Tornado waterslide, which I consider the waterpark equivalent to Space Mountain. You're seated ( Read more... )

Tomorrow Wolfling and I are leaving for our first big trip since our Disneyland adventure three years ago. It's not quite as big a deal, being only an overnight trip to a resort that's only two hours or so away, but it's something she's been wanting to do for a very long time, and I'm taking off work so we can make a special date of it ( Read more... )

I made it home! I was on the road just about eleven hours (including a long lunch break and a 30 minute nap in the mid-afternoon). I'm close to exhausted and still feel like I'm moving at 70 mph.

It was an incredible trip: 450 miles to Oakmouse's house, having a deer cross directly toward me across a main arterial early Friday morning, walking around the ( Read more... )

Trip was a beautiful, smoothe ten hours.

I'm exhausted.

Had dinner with Oakmouse, now I'm going to bed.

'night all. . .

One of the appeals of the old fashioned road trip is, of course, the temporary illusion of being able to outrun whatever is wrong in your ordinary life. . . . or maybe just to abandon and outrun ordinary life itself for a little while ( Read more... )

Yesterday was A Good Day -- and certainly less painful than Friday.

I got up, made the posts I'd been planning to and a few I hadn't, sent a rose to Uncrowned_King's LJ and left a comment on the last entry (I can't visit his body's resting place), and then set off for the island ( Read more... )

. . and boy are my arms tired!

Yep, a corny old vaudeville joke is about all the mental capacity I have right now. I got up this morning at 4:30 Eastern time, and now I'm on the ground, exhausted, sore, and hungry. And it's snowing. Lightly, but it's snowing.

Time for a snack, a soak in the jacuzzi, and a nap.