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If I had the time, I would have loved to look this up in an appropriate Chineese dialect. Englsih shall have to suffice:

Happy Birthday, !

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Also, no order in 2nd listing:

Happy Birthday,

I’ll buy you a drink at Silverado when you visit us in PDX.

Whew

So I couldn’t stand having just a Fandango barcode’s promise of tickets for the The Lord of the Rings trilogy tuesday:

and I drove to Sacramento to get the tickets and to do some reconnaisance work for restaurants, motels, etc.

Easy place to find. There are plent of “chain” eateries around the area: Chili’s, TGI Fridays, etc. There are also some keen local places – H and I ate at a coffee shop/diner called “Eggies.” Deeeeelicious. There were only the locals, hipsters, and grannies there with us.

Also almost sharing the parking lot was a Vagabond Executive motel. This would be a perfect staging point for a room on Monday and Tuesday night. I’m looking into cost and such.

A visual comparison

Just so all can see the visual move and surroundings for us, here is an aerial comparison:


We are going from here:

To here:

Notice the large park to the east, notice the raspberry fields to the west, notice the house in the middle.

Oh, the quiet.

And aslo, the large parking lot to the north is a safeway. And yes, those are two baseball diamonds to the east. 🙂

Friday

It’s Friday and this has been a long week. I’m eager to be quite productive this weekend; Here is some positive affirmation: I will get things accomplished.

It’s going to rain all weekend, so yard cleanup may be difficult. Sunday is supposed to be clearing up a bit, maybe I’ll be able to get a lawn mowing/edging in.

Really don’t feel like working much today. Let’s see how much I can accomplish in a relaxed Friday fashion.

Hey, , do you know where I can find a pic of our tikiroom? We must have some somewhere – it’s a shame we didn’t get a ‘last hurrah’ before we started packing in it. I found some GREAT pics of the living room on your desktop that I think are worthy of posing to . Plus, there are kitties in them.

In other news, I’m having dumb fears that because I don’t have actual trilogy Tuesday tickets in hand, we are going to have difficulty – I have the Fandango proof of purchase and stuff, so we turn those in for the tix, but still – I wish I could get over it. I’d hate to have to do a 4-hr round trip to sacto just to satisfy an irrational fear.

In other news, it must be autumn, because my libido is completely insatiable. PH34R M3! 😉

Productivity

Much less productive last night than I wished to be, though H did get some good quality CBEST studying in.

Got a big raise at work, though I’ve only about 3 months left (and only 4 weeks left in CA).

Time is marching on and I’m starting to get a bit nervous about time left and things to get done

Anyone in the area wanna help pack or clean this weekend? 😀 I’ve got beer, and we can take a break at 4:20!

Called the lady

She’s drowning in snot.

Sitting on couch — Check
Knitting — Check
Pride & Prejudice — Nope! She’s watching the special bits on the TTT:EE DVD. 🙂

Sickie

is home sick, so I’ll bet she’ll be couch-bound, knitting, watching Pride and Prejudice.

-=C