I had the most fantastic weekend.

It's spring here. It was in the 70's all weekend, sunny on Saturday, less-sunny on Sunday.

Saturday, I spent most of the day helping Mike with some stuff in his hanger - it's badly in need of some defragmenting. I got started on the annual on Michael's glider, too. I'm trying to decide what I'm going to fix and what I'm going to let go. I know I want to have someone rebuild the back canopy - the plexiglass is bad, and the frame is badly rusted. I think the wings just need a good bath and some lube. The fuselage needs a good bit of corrosion removed, and the interior paint touched up. The external paint job is in terrible shape, but I think I'll wait until winter, then strip and paint it if I'm going to keep it. If I'm not, I'll just give it back to Michael and let him do whatever with it. The other big thing is the trailer, which I don't think is salvageable. I need to clean it up, decide if it's worth keeping, lug it to the junkyard if it's not and buy him a generic trailer, or fix it if it is worth keeping.

Sunday, Mike brought over all the blankets and such that we had in the hanger from when we had hanger parties. At least half a dozen comforters...and they didn't fit in his washing machine, so we washed them in my apartment complex machines. Played too much WoW, had dinner.

Oh, yes, dinner. I found the ultimate dessert (at Cafe Lux, for the locals). It's the dessert which, if I knew I was going to die the next day, I'd want to have for, well, dessert. Chocolate Creme Brulee. It was thick, rich, but not sweet! It had the bitterness of very, very good chocolate, with the creaminess of creme brulee. It was utterly heavenly. My spare-time quest for today is to try to find a recipe.

It was a great weekend.

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Current Mood: chipper

The fortune jpg project is done. Check out skywhisperer to see. It updates once an hour, at 23 minutes after the hour (yeah, I know it's an odd time, by my crontab is getting big, and I try not to have too much running at once).

Stopped on the way to work at StoneMill Bakery, and I picked up chocolate chip and sugar cookies. They're sitting on my desk, smelling wonderful, and taunting me to eat them before (instead of?) lunch.

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Current Mood: hungry

Breakfast: One wonderful hot roll, one cream horn, and the best green milk tea with tapioca I've ever had: $3.50 in Chinatown.

Lunch: Polenta, with basil pesto, and grilled veggies on top. With a nice salad. $10 including tip at the hotel restraunt.

Dinner: Incredible bowl of noodles and random beef parts in a spicy beef broth. $7, including very generous tip, at my favorite noodle place.

I San Francisco

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Current Mood: awake