Katie and I got to take our second trip to Hawaii in less than a year last week. It was really nice with some spikes of incredible fun. We went to Kauai last December with our free money from the Alaska Permanent Fund. It was my first time to Hawaii, and Katie’s first time since high school. We ended up going again so soon through some luck and generosity.
Katie and I are headed to Portland today for WebVisions, then on Sunday we go to San Francisco where I’ll stay for the week and Katie will head home on Tuesday. If I don’t respond immediately to e-mail, DON’T PANIC.
So the Senate managed to stave off another attempt by our senior senator to shove ANWR drilling down our throats. My prediction is that Ted Stevens will die on the Senate floor some years down the road with an ANWR rider clutched in his cold, dead hand (and wearing his Hulk tie).
I didn’t stay at Burning Man for the burning of the temple on Sunday. Next time I certainly will. A friend who did stay for it described it thusly: “it was fucking amazing. quiet and very slow”. I just bet it was. Look at the bigger sizes to get a better idea of what’s going on. There isn’t really a reference for the size of the temple comlex, but on the left hand side of the picture as you’re looking at it, the smallest temple all the way out had a roofline that was probably eight to ten feet high.
I’m back from Burning Man and having a harder time reassimilating than I usually do after a vacation.
