Your Mileage May Vary

Because Dr. Horrible told me to

Background Noise: Mi Confesion

Last Visited:  the buildbot logs

Random Thought: somehow, nearly perfect isn't close enough  

Mood: overslept my alarm, slowly getting back into coding before my afternoon 'o meetings

So... the only "real" post i can think of writing today is moderately whiny and quite possibly depressing; so i'm not going to write it. Instead, how about a round up of my weekend? 

The Dark Knight? Awesome; though i need to see it again when i'm not so amazingly tired. The line wrapping around the theater beforehand and the ticket taker in the cheesetacular batman costume really added to the experience. I'm glad to have contributed to the $66.8M opening day tally. 

The rest of my weekend pretty much went like this: sleep, reading in bed, running, reading in bed, tapas like mexican food w/ margaritas, and more sleep. Also, Steve finally saw Wall-E and i got to join; lordy i love that movie. I don't care if Disney won't put up the cash to sponsor it for the best picture, it should get a nod anyways; especially the way this movie season is so far. Wall-E for president indeed. 

Oh, and sunday night? I had ice cream. It was awesome. 

... Kicking off today with some bizarre news, Katie Holmes turned down The Dark Knight because the film's message conflicted with her Scientology beliefs; also, according to MSNBC, Penguins are Mammals. Can I get an "oy" from the gallery? 

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Love your state, Love your beer

Background Noise: Midnight Coward, Stars

Last Visited: Steve & John's Wedding via Pete's camera Gallery

Random Thought: i don't think there is a more appropriate grooms cake for Steve than a pizza cake; how on earth didn't i think of it myself? 

Mood: needing a wednesday without meetings; so of course i'm in meetings all afternoon

I cannot stand here with a straight face and tell you that the best part of Steve and John's pre-wedding extravagani at Steve's house was the beer; because really, no one would believe me... myself included; it's not true, the beer was not the best part. But it was a fabulous cool part none the less. Why?  

Steve's Mom found Wolverine Beer! Love your state, love your beer; good slogan! (and you know? It tasted nothing like actual Wolverines. Thank goodness.)

... Sometimes it's the details i find the most enjoyable. 

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There and Back Again

Background Noise: Waves and the Both of Us, Charlotte Sometimes

Last Visited: The Napa Gallery

Random Thought: Napa really is a different world; beauty pageants and all

Mood: Weekend holidays aren't for whimps

Heather and Nick dropped in saturday morning for a quick 30-ish hours this weekend; so, as we've been saying we'd do for four years, we finally went to Napa. They landed in SJC, we drove up 280, over the Golden Gate, paused in Tiburon for in-n-out and excedrin, continued up 101 north to 37, to 121 over to Silverado Trail. 

After a too brief stop at Caldwell's hilltop vineyard, we drove past our roadside inn up to Darioush for some amazing whites, a stellar red (their Duel), some entertaining drunks and some gorgeous handcrafted tin lanterns. From there, with only 45 minutes before the Napa vineyards closed for the day, we made it to Paraduxx, whose garden with it's ancient trees gently shading us and the furniture provided the picture perfect setting for a flight of amazing reds; personally, i loved the mallards (2003), Nick preferred the 2004 (i forget which duck), and Heather liked the Red Heads (2005) - we all also decided the mountain vines were better than the valley ones. So there. 

Dinner was at the lovely Don Giovanni where we had a surprising Silverado Sangiovese along with our suppers; i... ate too much. Actually, that was a theme this weekend. As we headed back to our, um, duplex for the evening we swung into this little ghetto beer-wine-bait store where we picked up another bottle - a 2005 (how can you go wrong with that year?) Beauzeaux. That's right... "Beauzeaux." 

Phonetic pronunciation? Bozo.  

Which... we totally were for (a) purchasing that bottle after the brilliant wines we had earlier and (b) drinking it anyways. I am totally blaming my pounding headache this morning on that bottle. 

 

This morning we woke up, hit up the inn's breakfast, starbucks, then the Loire-esque Domaine Carneros before heading back down to meet Steve for lunch in SF at Burgermeister in the Castro. Then, because driving the SF hills is fun, we went up, around, and down Lombard, dropped Steve off at his WW rehearsal, and headed over to Baker Beach to enjoy the warm sand for a moment or thirty before i had to drop Heather and Nick off at SFO. 

... then i drove home and pretty much collapsed. Then i edited pictures. And now? Now i'm going to bed; because there's a keynote in the morning and i want to be awake for it. 

(Oh, and, guys? Please come back soon - i'm so glad you made it out here, finally.)

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