A dark, dark weekend.
I came home from visiting my uncle over the weekend. I typically visit him during the "crush" or just before it. He retired from a hedge fund and now has five acres of wine in cultivation and lives the good life in the Central Coast of California.
I used to fly down to the Bay Area and rent a car but no more. Now I just fly through SLC or PHX and he picks me up at the local San Luis Obispo airport. Very civilized and it saves me rental car costs (a wash with the flight cost from SLC) and the hassle of driving south four hours.
Needless to say we drink a fair bit during these weekends. He's converted his large workshop in the guest house into a fine game room. A great Brunswick professional pool table (where I learned to play snooker over the weekend), a very nice foosball table, a pinball machine and a dart board. Oh.. and a 100" home cinema. First-rate fun.
Of course, I remember little of the weekend, save my flight yesterday which took a good eight hours to get me home to Seattle. Ridiculous but I wasn't about to pay the extra $100 to leave SLC two or three hours earlier.
I could say it was good to be home but I do miss the 75F and the sun. I don't think I'll see it for a few months here. Good thing I have this.
Posted by artandscience at November 13, 2007 07:39 PM