I'm back.
Firstly, kitties:
Secondly: I had a lovely birthday dinner and a movie at Newport-on-the-Levee's branch of the Brio Tuscan Grille chain of semi-fancy Italian restaurants and the giant AMC 20-plex respectively. It was a package deal that I thought made for an excellent special occasion sort of thing. I saw The Hurt Locker, which was excellent.
Thirdly: Cincinnati's main library, downtown, is unbelievably fabulous. It's 545,000 square feet of excellent design and the most modern, intelligently designed, wonderful library environment I've ever been in. I loved it. I can imagine it must be a -great- library to work at, too. They have a website here - http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/main/
with video tours and information about it.
Fourthly: Since I flew back out of Dayton, OH, we took the opportunity to visit the National Museum of the US Air Force. Which is full of planes, and nuclear bombs (disarmed, I assume). And a world-class collection of ICBMs. As someone who's only passingly familiar with planes, I found that their informational plaques and such were not all that helpful, but I did get to see an Apollo command module (for Apollo 15, I believe), the aforementioned nukes and ICBMs, an F-22 stealth fighter, a B-2 stealth bomber, Bockscar (the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki), a Lockheed Blackbird (very clearly the inspiration for the X-Men's jet, or at least a closely related model), a non-gunship AC-130 (you may recall the AC-130 mission in Call of Duty 4), and planes very similar to those my grandfather flew during his time in the Air Force. Plus many others. I wanted to tour the presidential planes (you can walk around on Air Force One - the one Clinton used) and the experimental aircraft gallery, but that tour was full up before we could get in.
Firstly, kitties:
Secondly: I had a lovely birthday dinner and a movie at Newport-on-the-Levee's branch of the Brio Tuscan Grille chain of semi-fancy Italian restaurants and the giant AMC 20-plex respectively. It was a package deal that I thought made for an excellent special occasion sort of thing. I saw The Hurt Locker, which was excellent.
Thirdly: Cincinnati's main library, downtown, is unbelievably fabulous. It's 545,000 square feet of excellent design and the most modern, intelligently designed, wonderful library environment I've ever been in. I loved it. I can imagine it must be a -great- library to work at, too. They have a website here - http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/main/
with video tours and information about it.
Fourthly: Since I flew back out of Dayton, OH, we took the opportunity to visit the National Museum of the US Air Force. Which is full of planes, and nuclear bombs (disarmed, I assume). And a world-class collection of ICBMs. As someone who's only passingly familiar with planes, I found that their informational plaques and such were not all that helpful, but I did get to see an Apollo command module (for Apollo 15, I believe), the aforementioned nukes and ICBMs, an F-22 stealth fighter, a B-2 stealth bomber, Bockscar (the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki), a Lockheed Blackbird (very clearly the inspiration for the X-Men's jet, or at least a closely related model), a non-gunship AC-130 (you may recall the AC-130 mission in Call of Duty 4), and planes very similar to those my grandfather flew during his time in the Air Force. Plus many others. I wanted to tour the presidential planes (you can walk around on Air Force One - the one Clinton used) and the experimental aircraft gallery, but that tour was full up before we could get in.
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otoki:
Oh, and I just found mine too. A girl at work thought it was hers (she and I had the old chocolate, and got the new one around the same time).
otoki:
What is it that you like about it? I want to keep that in mind for next year's upgrade.