the Ink Runway

it’s weird to be home alone now. I’ve been married just shy of a year but one grows quite find of matrimonial trappings. loading the dishwasher and packing my lunch the still of the morning touches me. I’ve grown accustomed to her talk, her snore her pitter patter and our dog certainly echos the abscense. Ide be remiss to not admit enjoying certain freedoms the least of which is a vertical toilet seat, still i miss her and long for her return from shores of Hawaii. tommorrow I depart for Santa Barbara to relax with my folks. my only credit is thus far I haven’t succumed to my penchant for fast food and beer. though I have treasured these uninterrupted reading sessions with my vino and pipe

I made it through Monday with only two starbucks visits. That’s good for a Monday. we started in on season two of The Wire and I finished downloading season one of Mad Men. Monday had a super bright sun at sunset, I’m afraid the photos don’t do it justice.

This weekend we saw Shutter Island which my first reaction was fair (renter) but I keep thinking about it and want to see it again. It has almost an M Night type twist (when MNS made good movies) but just very… well, see it yourself.

Also this weekend i finally finished Plants versus Zombies. I’ve
played through it fully twice, collected every achievement and plant and can finally be done. I still have that catchy credits song “there’s a zombie on my lawn” song in my head. well worth the two/three bucks from the iTunes store.

At my aunt and uncles, inflating a giant hermit crab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0i_JUrxBA

we’re set to touch down momentarily in fort myers where grandpa ensign will be picking us up and then it’s off to sanibel island. last night while trying to go to sleep early (yay for 6am flights) I tried to recall how sanibel looked. I haven’t been there in over 10 years, though I imagine it’s very much the same. sanibel froze in the 70s when residents blocked development efforts they saw taking over the coast. as a result few new buildings get permission to be built and the whole place feels of well kept 70s era vacation homes. at least that’s my recollection.

I got bored on the plane at one point and took a screen grab from the Rachel maddow show. my version of Cheney Da Pimp. Anna took the photo of our shadow in the clouds.

storm clouds and jets. very cool pictures walking back from starbucks

I slept in, made popcorn and watched Life Tinks on Hulu. we went shopping after Anna returned and got Edward Scissorhands on BD which she hadn’t seen before. I took the dog up to the Mesa during a break in the rain and later checked out the shoreline of del mar. all in all, a pretty good day

first, here is a quick video of a jet and two choppers all in moments of each other. photos are of the sunset, panoramas are from the Mesa yesterday. also, I uploaded a load of photos and panos from the weekend to my ms skydrive here

I’ve uploaded our photos from our trip to Balboa Park

This is my backyard. 

I took Lilly out for a walk after work and saw another magnificent sunset over the mesa.