Ahem

Where'd everybody go?

I'll break the silence with a report on my trip to San Francisco to visit Beanie and Liz. The trip included a surprise overnight visit with my parents in Dallas, since I got to Dallas too late to catch my connecting flight to Oakland. The next day I was met at the airport by Beanie and Radar, who licked my face through Oakland, across the Bay Bridge, and into San Francisco.

A shot of Liz and Radar after we gave him a Vicodin. Seriously, I'm just kidding. It was a Xanax.

Except for a few hours on the first day, it rained the whole time I was there, which put a damper (get it?) on things. Nonetheless, Beanie and I amused ourselves with Mario Kart and cookies while Liz swam across oceans and climbed mountains and biked to China or did whatever pugilistic stuff she likes to do.

I got home at about 11:30pm on Monday night (thanks to a series of delays and a thrilling three-hour layover at John Wayne Airport in Orange County), then promptly turned around and flew to Knoxville for the rest of the week. The weather there was gorgeous, which made up for the fact that most of the city looks like this:

I'm back stateside for about two more hours, then it's off to Madison for my fourth and final trip to Wisconsin this recruiting season. Avis has rented me a totally bitchin' Mercury Grand Marquis for the trip, which means I'll be pimping Interstate 90 like none other.

Andrik and Jen - at some point we oughta discuss Amsterdam, since it's less than two weeks away. Huzzah!