No vacation from Geek status
We’re currently visiting family in northern CA during our long-overdue vacation this week, choking on smoke that’s engulfed the entire state. Good times! Highlights include:
* Our 9-year-old niece grabbing a bottle of K-Y Jelly in Wal-Mart and asking Uncle Andy what it’s for. (I stumbled in terror, and when I couldn’t come up with an answer, she assumed I had no idea what it was for and I told her she assumed correctly. All Tracy did was laugh.)
* Seeing Wall*E, which (so far) has my vote for Best Picture at next year’s Oscar’s
* Checking out Susanville’s first Indian restaurant and leaving very pleased (and full)
* Hanging out with the 2-year-old niece and teaching her new sayings and ways to shake hands
* Seeing the rest of the family and being able to chat and joke like we saw them as recently as last week.
Finally, we bought our tickets to The Dark Knight. I’ve pre-purchased movie tickets before, but never three weeks before the release date. I’ve seen and heard all the hype, but Kevin Smith’s review finally put me over the top. So now Tracy and I have a date at 2:30 PM on July 19th at the killer Cinetopia Living Room Theater in Vancouver, WA. Who says I’m not a romantic?
Up next: driving into thicker smoke via Sacramento and Vacaville, capped by a booze run for family and co-workers in Redding, and then…
