This is a portion of day three, our final day in Tahoe.
I didn't get any interesting footage on the drive home so there's no clip depicting the second half of the day. But suffice it to say, wrapping up the fun Weekend Away was a bittersweet experience; simultaneously a relief and a reluctant farewell.
See you next year, Tahoe!
Enjoy the FINAL CLIP of our whirlwind vacay.
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Short clip from day two of our snow trip.
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I finally got my new Canon XH-A1 that was on my Christmas List.
I'm ecstatic.
Only one thing bothers me: This ominous shipping label. I hope it's just an unfortunate coincidence. :-)
More to come.
I'm currently in oakland airport bloggin this on my new cingular 8525. Seriously, my wife spoils me rotten. The peculiar thing (read "hypocritical thing") about the way I allow her to spoil me is the fact that I'm constantly trying to stop her from spoiling the kids. We had a talk about that on the drive to the airport, in fact. I suppose I'm justified by the fact that the kids are still in their developmental stages and spoiling them now could yield Paris Hiltonesque results. Spoling me will only make me appreciate what I have... or something like that.
Anyway, here I am sitting outside gate 9A waiting for my flight and trying not to hear Mr. Loud Cellphone Talker sitting across the way.
The wait in security and checkin was negligible. It could be because this is a redeye flight or it could be because this airport improved its procedures. The last time I flew out of this airport I missed my flight because the wait in the security line exceeded two hours! This time, the entire process from being dropped off at the curb to sitting here outside the gate might have taken 20 minutes. Tops.
The upside is I'm not rushed but the downside is that I'm bored. But I suppose this downtime allows for this blog entry so all is well.
I had better log off so I can preserve the battery life for the in-flight Tetris marathon I'm planning.
Later...
I'm rather surprised at the range of scents available for JetBlue passengers. For no extra cost, passengers are treated to aromas ranging from chocolate chip cookie and b.o. to flatulation and hair grease with a whif of toilet chemicals.
(And when I say "rather surprised", I mean "utterly disgusted".)
In spite of the varying smells I can detect from my seat, I'm really pleased with my journey so far. As I type this on the plane, I am watching ESPN2 at my seat with use of the complimentary earbuds.
Also, luckily for me, one of the guys in my row decided to move across the aisle to sit with this chick he met while waiting at the gate, thus leaving me and this other guy to share three seats between the two of us. I think we have one of maybe only five open seats in the whole flight.
Lucky me, indeed.
Later...
I am waiting at JFK international airport right now and it's 6:50am local time. That means it's bloody almost 4am PST. the plane ride was excrusiating because I could not sleep for more than ten minutes at a time. The seats, while relatively comfortable, did not allow for my neck to rest because the recline didn't recline far enough.
(BTW, there is a bird flying around inside the terminal... it's qite a sight. Watching the poor guy flutter around the flourescent lights trying to find true sunlight is almost like seeing a metaphor for human existence. But I digress...)
New York is awesome.
I don't mean that it is the modern day Rome, hub of all media and trend setter of social policy and behavior as some would suggest - I'm sure it's all of those things too, but I just mean that the people here are so vocal that there is so little of the pretense I'm accustomed to deciphering back in the Bay Area.
While waiting to pick up my glazed Dunkin' Donut and black coffee, I was amused to listen to a 'regular' customer chide an employee of the donut stand that the decaf coffee dispenser was placed in the wrong spot. He insists that the regular caffeinated coffee should be on the left and the decaf should always be on the right. Then along comes the lady who runs the place comes along and starts shouting back that he wasted a cup when he dumped the decaf and proceeded to get a new cup for the regular coffee. She threatened to charge him $0.12 for the wasted styrofoam cup. All of this, of course was in jest and all of the shouting ended in laughter, but it just seems that relationships here in New York can be much more honest because people are not afraid to "tell it like it is."
The most amazing thing is that the owner lady is Chinese! 90% of the Chinese ladies local to the San Francisco Bay Area are much quieter, more demure, and often silent. But no, not here. Here they'll yell at you for wasting a styrofoam cup.
In that respect, this is definitely my kind of town.
In a previous post, I showed a video where actor Danny Bonaduce was ambushed with a microphone while having lunch. Here is a segment from Fox News where Bonaduce talks about his patriotism and the death threats he received after speaking his mind.
I found a cool new site that helps you visualize the places that the people in the Bible experienced and traveled around.
It's called BibleMap.org and can be found HERE.
Check it out when you get a chance.
Tara Reid counts down like this: "25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 13, 12, 11, 10,..."
She's awesome.
"In one incident in October of 2002, a detainee was put in a plywood hut, where interrogators yelled and screamed at him, according to the documents."
It seems that beyond these inhumane acts, the guards at Gitmo (thusly nicknamed because when prisoners started crying, the guards always threatened them with, "Ya wanna git mo action?") caused these prisoners to suffer beyond what we can imagine. We have Pizza Hut - they have Plywood Hut. What will these evil guards think of next?!
