Delaware Vacation in Review

Just a quick review of vacation.

Saturday I visited Pat in Danville Pennsylvania.  It was a fun trip, I met his girlfriend of the last decade for the second time (at least that I recall).  She was nice.  We all (Sarah was there) went out to eat and then walked down by the river.  After some relaxing at his place (and some really really filling rhubarb pie Shannon had made from scratch) Pat, Sarah, and I went out to the Pub II where we kicked BDGirl’s ass in trivia (although we absolutely sucked at the British Music Section).  This was then followed up by late night trip to the Old Forge Brewing Company for some delicious hand made soft pretzels.  Pat had raved about them earlier and he was right for doing so.

Sarah and I got up early on Sunday and finished out drive to Bethany Beach.  This was by far the hottest year in a while.  We didn’t got an hour on the beach without jumping in the water (usual Delaware trip is a swim, followed by an hour or two of reading and relaxing on the beach, some more swimming, relaxing, etc.).  This year you had to continually get in the water, it was just that hot.  We saw dolphins, sand critters, Ghost Crabs, seagulls, pelicans, and other animals.  We even saw a ghost crab eating a sand critters (pretty cool site).  We swam and got sunburned and played with my niece and nephews (soooo much fun).  Anyways, it was a lot of fun seeing my family, Sarah got her fill of crab at the Blue Crab (all you can eat = 7 crabs… at least for Sarah), and I got my donuts from Fractured Prune.

Random Pictures (I know there’s a Pat and me picture out there that I need to get ahold of):

Dear Pennsylvania,

Dear Pennsylvania,

I am writing to tell that a “highway repair focused” economy is awful.  Don’t try to hide it.  I know most of your economy comes from the constant, and what I suspect as unnecessary, highway repairs you have going on all over your state at all times.  Its obscene really.  It makes visiting your state, even just driving through, a god awful experience.  Any appreciation of your natural beauty is lost by the anger and frustration one gets from driving on your highways at speeds considerable slower than 65 miles per hour because of the constant construction.

I wish I could drive around you without doubling the time and distance of any road trip.

You suck,

AJ

Delaware Day Two

The day started with Sarah and I traversing to the Bethany Beach Boardwalk to look for a new bathing suit for her. After an hour of looking at over priced and ill fitting bathing suits we decided the one she had brought was fine.

We then headed to Fractured Prune for some delicious delicious donuts and coffee. Fast forward to a two hour beach session, followed by lunch and another hour and half swimming and relaxing in/by the ocean and we’re ready for some more food  and relaxing outside of the sun for a bit (ocean swimming = great exercise).

PA Dreams

I am in Pennsylvania visisting Pat and after a fun night of Sarah, Pat, and myself going outto a pub I had some strange dreams.

Dream 1
I was part of the Avengers, you know that superhero group. We had tracked a threat to a house that had a huge swimming pool in the lawn. No on was around but hanging in the pool was a large metal disc. The disc was hollow inside and had twelve slots in the side.

One by one Avengers jumped on the disc and slid themselves into the slots. As we did this it started swinging back and forth (it was hung by a chain over the pool). I was the last Avenger to jump on and slide into a slot. There were now twelve of us in the disc, the slots were so small that you could not move, but your head did stick out. Just then the disc swung hard to one side, made a low fast swing across the pool and broke the chain flinging into the air.

I think I was Captian America (one of the Avengers) and managed to slip out ontop of the disc as it flung into the air. The disc didn’t reach an apex but kept getting higher and higher. I looked down to start seeing writing on roof tops, including the house we started at. As the disc got high enough I saw what was written: “3,580 shall know the truth.”

Dream 2
I was at an aquarium fo a family work dinner. I sat down and had sone gifts for a parent that their child had made. Unfortunately the paren never showed up. Instead I went with a small group of people up into a floor at the top of a skyscraper.

Once we got up there our host told us we were going to die. My friend, of whom I never really knew who she was, and I ran. We got cornered by the host’s friend but I managed to bash his head into the wall (multiple times). I was really angry with this guy because he used to be my friend and now he was goin help the person that to torture us. He kept saying “she’s right, she’s right;” referring to the person who wanted to torture us.

I knew we couldn’t take the elevators down with her knowing, nor could we go down the stairs because they we pressure sensitive and she would know. We did find a room with computers (they looked like servers) and just started trashing them. I then could the host in the next room strt screaming because the police would be there soon now.

Fingernails and Garfield

A long time ago I read a Garfield comic where Garfield walks up to Jon and says something like “Jon, I’ve got a serious problem!!! I go to sleep and then BAM…. 8 – 10 hours later I am wide awake.” All the while Garfield is disheveled and has bags under his eyes.

I sometimes feel the same way about my fingernails. I clip them and keep them short, but they seem to find time to grow at stupid rates when I am not looking. Maybe I just don’t know what the usual time frame for clipping your figernails is, but I clip them just over once a week. About every 9 days or so.

And everytime I look down at them they are either short, meaning just clipped; or they are long and need to be clipped. I never notice that in between couple. Hence the Garfield reference. It’s like I clip them and then BLAM, 8 – 10 days later they are long and need to be clipped again.

A Long Time Coming…

So after nearly a month away from updating my site I’m back. I’ve been meaning to write in here for a bazillion reasons, but held off on it. I started a few entries but never finished them. So I’ll run through a list of topics that I considered writing entries but for one reason or another (laziness is a reason) I didn’t finish:

– Buffalo Visit / Fixing Dan’s Car / Mastery
– Declawing Cats / Why it’s ok
– July 4th / Reg and Matt visit / Frisbee Golf / 12% alcohol beer
– Its Hot / How to sweat sitting down
– Sarah meets my friends / Things go well!!!
– The IRS / WTF
– Museum of Natural History / Freaking Rocks
– Ferretgammo / How I named our ferret after a 24 character
– Ferretgammo part ii / Hide the remotes
– Exercise / Habit forming… Or is it?

Anyways, I miss blogging, so I’m back.

Lastest news… Sarah’s moving in. Yeah, it’s not surprising considerig she’s spent the last three weeks here, but it’s exciting none-the-less. So we have a trip to visit Pat for a night Saturday, then four days relaxing on the beach in Delaware with my family, then back here for cleaning and making space in my closets for all of Sarah’s stuff (well here stuff that isn’t already over at my place). And I said we because Sarah is accompanying me on said trip (Yayyyy!!)

I am stupidly excited to meet Wyatt and Takara (my nephew and niece). I haven’t seen them yet… It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any family. But that’s what Delaware is for. Family and relaxing. And I can’t wait. Also for Grotto Pizza and Fractured Prune Donuts. But those are secondary.