Mom’s 59 today! Happiest day to you mom.

I’m back in Sarasota, safe and sound. The only excitement of the trip back came in Houston, while waiting to board the jet to Sarasota. What was the excitement? Well I almost waited the plane away. Note to self: even though you can hear other boarding calls inside the cafe, doesn’t mean you’re going to hear yours. Thankfully I got on the plane in time, as I was paying close attention to the time (and I was within “eyeshot” of the gate).
So yeah. I touched down in Sarasota at quarter to five local time, just a little over seven hours ago, and I’ve already managed to injure myself playing Ultimate. Note to self #2: do do a stretch before jumping.
I would like to mention that my website is going to be out of commission for a few days as the machine which serves davin.ws, a PowerMac G4, gets physically relocated to Vancouver from Victoria where it now resides, and the domain gets repointed. Everything should be back to normal by Wednesday, but if not, just keep hitting F5, I’m sure something interesting will happen, eventually.
Downtime for davin.ws also means my gallery from San Diego won’t be up for a little bit. But it’ll be worth it! Gots me some nize pitchers.
A couple things I’d like to point your attention to before I call it a night. I bought Rolling Stone magazine today for something to read on the plane, issue #960. Let me just say it’s a great issue. RS has always been kinda hit or miss for me, but this one’s a keeper. In addition to a big interview with Comedy Central’s king-wit Jon Stewart (which they’ve posted online), there’s also a very interesting writeup on Bob Dylan and his life/music, as well as R.E.M.’s lead singer Michael Stipe. And lots of other good stuff. Incidentally, I bought Jon’s book on Thursday, America (The book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, and so far (I’ve read the forward, the overview, and part of the first chapter), it continues the Daily Show’s tradition of insight through biting satire. Excellent stuff. Finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, go check out the video for Sarah McLachlan‘s new single, World on Fire. All I can say is, wow. Nice work.

To those who sent me their address: your postcard is in the mail! 🙂
Wow, what an amazing week. That presentation I spoke about? It went well. As it turns out the environment wasn’t as formal as I was expecting (yeah), and the group was smaller too (double-yeah).
Friday night Pat and I wandered down the California coastline, hung out at the beach for a bit, and found a great little Thai restaurant in Encinitas for dinner. (Aside: Pat had Sirius satellite radio in her Hertz rental, and we heard a anthem of sorts, “Never” by The Roc Project. Full-on epic trance — although it seems to to have come out in 2003, I heard it for the first time eight days ago as part of ravetrax.com‘s weekly live show, Casual Fridays, while DJ Naki was spinning. Naki was singing along while it was playing, she’s got a great singing voice. If you find yourself without plans on a Friday, tune from about 8pm EST onward, there’s some great music to be heard.)
Did a tour of San Diego by trolley today, that was lots of fun. It was a nice setup, for $25 you got a 2.5 hour narrated tour of the city, with ten stops along the way. It took me through Oldtown, the Midway aircraft carrier museum, upper and lower Gaslamp, along the waterfront, past the naval ships, over the bridge to Coronado, past the San Diego Zoo and up to El Prado (home to several museums). The trolleys ran every half hour, so you could get off and look around at any of them along the way — which I did at Seaport Village and El Prado. Lots of fun, snapped a few pics too, which I shall be posting over the next few days 🙂
Off to bed for me! I’ve got a 7am flight to catch.