Trips & travel: June 2007 Archives
I finally got the photos from my spectacular Memorial Day weekend in San Diego with two of my dearest friends, Brad and Kristin, and now I'm posting this entry from my new computer! As a belated graduation gift from my father and his wife, I got a MacBook. For years I've struggled to stay loyal to the Windows platform, and it's tough to resist the new Vista operating system...but at the end of the day I decided to take the plunge. I'm happy with it so far - I love the "no frills" operating system, it's cute, and damn it's trendy. I'm not crazy about the keys being so far spaced apart, but I guess I'll learn to love it. The key thing is that this is NOT a work computer. In fact, I can't even check my work e-mail from it - this is going to be quite a breakthrough in my work-life balance. I will be able to come home at the end of the day and leave my work computer off - there will be no temptation to log in and see what is waiting for me tomorrow!
Back to the topic at hand, though - my great weekend in San Diego. I had been in Denver, CO on business for the two weeks before and after Memorial Day - wishing my body didn't take so long to adjust to the altitude. For a little break, I flew into San Diego where I was greeted by my best high school friend and my best college friend. It was late so Kristin and I called it a night early and headed back to her adorable house in Pacific Beach. Saturday was wonderfully relaxing, we just sat around catching up and talking. Sunday night we went to a bar called "Thrusters" which turned into quite a night. Kristin yelled at a middle aged man (who was trying to hit on her) for stealing her seat and trying to hit on a married woman, Brad almost stole a bike without a seat, and we wound up eating gross Denny's food at 3am. Sunday we made a quick trip through the San Diego zoo and then it was back to work for me.
