Oh, Yeah

Another 'highlight' of the vacation is that I decided to take a swim with my cell phone in my pocket. The phone, apparently, does not like this. It has now been five days since I have been able to turn on the phone so many numbers are hidden away in an electronic abyss right now.


sigh

This might, however, be the motivation we need to break our phone contract and upgrade our phones. We'll see shortly after we move.

What a Month

Wow, it's been too too long since I have checked in here. Since I last wrote (the previous post was from my sweetie!) I have traveled across the country with my boy to LA to visit pals and my brother, I traveled down to FLA to see family and friends and visit Gainesville for the first time since moving out of the state, and spent a terrific week in between at an AP Stats workshop in Manhattan for a week.

Details will drip in (as well as photos) over the course of the week here as we pack and get ready for our big move to PA.

LA highlights include a wonderful day at the Griffith Observatory with our pals the Professor and the Geek (self admitted, by the way) where my boy learned abour Giffith j Griffith the mogul who gave the city of LA the property on which the observatory sits. The boy is amused by the story of the man with the same first and last name. He was also impressed by the mess at my brother's in home office and the state of the office of my host friend the Geek. Boy had remarked that he had never seen such a messy room before. I think he was jealous since he does not get to let his room decay into such a state.

More details soon...

Summer, on.

So it is definitely summer time here and the heat is high. Yesterday there was a power failure across our area, which is not a good thing when it is in the 90s. Fortunately, we were booked for a Fourth of July party (on the fifth of July) at our friends Michele and Sunil's house. It was a nice cook out and we sat out on their paved driveway which was well shaded and had a nice cross breeze. Mo devoured about half of a watermelon. Power returned around 5:30 pm which was about 1 minute before Jim made the call to book a hotel room somewhere that still had power.

Other fourth news: we watched the NYC fireworks Sunday night from the comfort of our livingroom (via television broadcast) and we listened to/saw the summit fireworks last night from same livingroom.

Daddy's Day 2010

So I was able to sleep until 7 AM this morning which felt like a ridiculous luxury. Mo, as usual, was up at 5 but Beth took her downstairs so I could snooze a bit more. We had a nice walk downtown and a terrific buffet lunch before I headed out to a bookstore with the Gram and Mo.

For our Friday night pizza movie night this week our tour through Hogwarts was derailed by a mail delay, so Gram selected Fantastic Mr. Fox from our on demand service. What an incredible film! Gram was completely bowled over (as were Beth and I) so when we went to the store for me to trade in a gift of a book I already have (the amazing Godel, Escher, and Bach bu Douglas Hofstadter) I got this film as a trade in. I'm ordering a book to replace it with the generous gift card I got from my department as a going away gift. Anyway, I am happy for this to be the start of our Wes Anderson collection at home. There are so many terrific little details in the film, I know we'll see it over and over with Gram in the house and I hope Mo inherits some of the same sense of humor to appreciate it.

Tomorrow we head back to the valley for Beth to re-interview with the school. I think we'll be a full-on campus family in the fall.

Family Fun

Mo Walking

Mo Moving, More Movies