Highlights from this week:
Got to CA, drove an hour to where my Grandparents live, hung out with them for a night.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)They spend most of the time trying to get me to pick which things I want to inherit from them, as Grandma will likely not be around by xmas. Also, point out that this is the most time they've spent alone with me since I was an infant. Guess that happens when you had always got a sibling attached at the hip.
Drove back into town, picked up boy.
Work, company parties, sleep. Lather, rinse, repeat.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)You know the scene in UHF where the kid gets the firehose turned on him to drink from, and it slams him against the back wall? Yeah, like that, but with network traffic info instead of water.
Hang with a family friend for dinner.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)Saw her adorable daughter for the first time in over a decade, her husband spends most of the night trying to let him introduce the boy to venture capitalists to start up a company. Whoa. And overwhelming.
Go to Pheonix for a couple days, for the boy's company award dinner.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)Hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, astoundingly beautiful. I kid you not, I even took pictures of the bathroom. There was no corner of this place that wasn't breathtaking. Oh, and free rein of the spa. Hellz yeah.
Got on a plane to come home.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)Got stuck on the plane at the gate for an hour and a half, next to a toddler and a baby. Baby cried non-stop, toddler was a fucking wigglewort chatterbox. Garhrcgoeuhr!!#(*!! I'll excuse the baby, but seriously. Can you not stop your child from going on at top volume for at least 10 minutes? And then I called my mom to distract myself... well, it turns out I guess there's no hope of getting her into remission. It's pretty much a given she'll have this and chemo for the rest of her life. Another immediate family member to watch die slowly and painfully, awesome. And hey, there's an 80% chance I'll get to do it too in 15 years, sweet!
So glad to be home for a few weeks...get off the rollercoaster for a little while.
I got it, it's your birthdays.
(The musical of course. What were you thinking? *pshaw* nasty mind
"Alyssum likes being where she am."
When algorithms attack.
Now I just have this image of an integral rearing up in the woods and swinging signs around like deer legs in the When Animals Attack commercials.