I see by the clock on the wall that it's been 20 days since my last post. I intended to make a post on the 28th of last month, with a brief update and the news that I'd be gone for 12 days or so on vacation. But time slipped away and I never got it done. Then we left for Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
It was a very nice trip and a very nice stay at a very nice golf villa, tho I never actually got around to playing golf, instead spending my time laying around and watching my kids see the ocean for the first time. They were enthralled. Living vicariously through your kids is not as bad as it sounds, as long as you're just re-experiencing the shear joy and splendor of discovery, and not trying to compensate for not having been picked first for everything on the playground. I did try to post an entry via my BlackBerry, but my wife got wind of it and, well, let's just say it's a good thing that those BlackBerrys are so rugged.
Then off to Atlanta for my cousin's wedding. A lovely affair, and great to see my aunts and uncles again, whom I haven't seen all at the same time since my grandfather's funeral some 8 years ago. I think that's why we have weddings and funerals: It's not to celebrate a marriage or mourn a death, but to see your relatives whom you never seem to make the time for otherwise. Sigh.
One of the benefits of this trip was I got to have some very good country fried steak and good ol' down-south sweet tea, which you just can't get here in Chicago. I wouldn't trade you a raging case of the clap for the hot dogs they have down there, but you surely can't beat the fried steak. I usually try to get my fill of biscuits and gravy while down south, too, but alas, I didn't have the opportunity.
Since getting back, I've been working on reproducing the sweet tea, and I'm pretty close. What I haven't really been doing is making much progress on some of my technical projects. Ah, such is life.
