December so far
Dec 10, 2008 01:43 Filed in: Life
I’m so very far behind that I thought I’d catch up
with the most recent activities and slowly go
backwards from there. I’ve posted a lot of new
pictures from my many trips, though, already.
Starting off with December. To celebrate the anniversary of my house being broken into, I once again drove down to Kansas to work in Wichita for a few days at the NDB’s office. Played some new games with the family, got lots of work done with daily meetings, teeth cleaned, annual Ada massage, dinner with Fred & Donna, saw William (visiting from Hawaii and a day before he shot a nail through his hand), ate some Gambino’s pizza & Braums’ limeade, and made the 350 mile drive to Mount Hope from Omaha in record time (4.25 hours, nonstop). Needless to say, a full 3 days. After I drove back, I was quickly off to San Francisco again for an ACR meeting. Got to have a small game night on Friday at Terry’s place (great to see Mandi, Doug, Melissa, Emily, Stacie & Mike), gorged myself on excellent dim sum on Saturday, then had meetings the rest of the time at the SF Wharf though with a brief break to take the trolly across the city and watch a late showing of Quantum of Solace (good, but not great as was previous Bond flick). Lots of stories from this past weekend, but maybe most memorable was at the airport. I thought my flight was at 12:30pm and I arrived at 11:45am (no bags to check), only to discover the flight was at 12:03 (have I mentioned that I’m bad at remembering numbers?). I arrived at gate to find no one staffing the area. The plane was still docked and I waved and jumped up and down to get the pilots’ attention to no avail. The computer said they were missing only 1 passenger (me!). The door to the plane had lots of warnings about alarms going off if I tried to enter. 6 minutes later when the plane started to leave I decided to set the alarms off and return to waving - this time the pilots saw me, pointed and got them to re-dock so I could get on board. Not a fun experience and likely bad due to short staffing the area, but fortunate to make it!
Oh, and I beat Jade Empire on my one night in NE between those trips (it’s only an xbox game that’s 4 years old!). It was very impressive, but a sign that time hasn’t been on my side for some time.
Stay tuned for much more!!!
Starting off with December. To celebrate the anniversary of my house being broken into, I once again drove down to Kansas to work in Wichita for a few days at the NDB’s office. Played some new games with the family, got lots of work done with daily meetings, teeth cleaned, annual Ada massage, dinner with Fred & Donna, saw William (visiting from Hawaii and a day before he shot a nail through his hand), ate some Gambino’s pizza & Braums’ limeade, and made the 350 mile drive to Mount Hope from Omaha in record time (4.25 hours, nonstop). Needless to say, a full 3 days. After I drove back, I was quickly off to San Francisco again for an ACR meeting. Got to have a small game night on Friday at Terry’s place (great to see Mandi, Doug, Melissa, Emily, Stacie & Mike), gorged myself on excellent dim sum on Saturday, then had meetings the rest of the time at the SF Wharf though with a brief break to take the trolly across the city and watch a late showing of Quantum of Solace (good, but not great as was previous Bond flick). Lots of stories from this past weekend, but maybe most memorable was at the airport. I thought my flight was at 12:30pm and I arrived at 11:45am (no bags to check), only to discover the flight was at 12:03 (have I mentioned that I’m bad at remembering numbers?). I arrived at gate to find no one staffing the area. The plane was still docked and I waved and jumped up and down to get the pilots’ attention to no avail. The computer said they were missing only 1 passenger (me!). The door to the plane had lots of warnings about alarms going off if I tried to enter. 6 minutes later when the plane started to leave I decided to set the alarms off and return to waving - this time the pilots saw me, pointed and got them to re-dock so I could get on board. Not a fun experience and likely bad due to short staffing the area, but fortunate to make it!
Oh, and I beat Jade Empire on my one night in NE between those trips (it’s only an xbox game that’s 4 years old!). It was very impressive, but a sign that time hasn’t been on my side for some time.
Stay tuned for much more!!!
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