saddle peak weekend

Monday August 2nd 2004 09:27 AM PST

Saturday Jen and I got up early and got her car down to Hock's honda in Alhambra. She failed smog and another repair shop had quoted us $1000 for one part. I looked online and found an after-market part for $375, so i decided to ask Jimmy at Hock's. When we got it down there he looked up the part and sure enough its $1000. So, he's gonna dig around and find if there is another part he can use by another manufacturer. Meanwhile i dropped my car instead and had its major 60,000 mile service. At this point we're already late for breakfast at the huntington, so we raced off. We got to the Huntington at about 9:15, only 15 minutes late. There was a members pancake breakfast and Jen's father and brother were waiting for us. So we ate breakfast and started the grand tour of the grounds. Now, we all know this place like the back of our hands, but we were there for close to 5 hours. Bob had made a Tea reservation in the tea room, and could only get a time at about 1:30. So from about 10 to 1:30 we walked EVERYWHERE. I don't think we missed a single gallery or garden.

So when we finally got to the tea room we were dead tired. We stuffed ourselves in usual fashion, and then headed home. Jen and I promptly took a nap, and i heard later that Bob and David did the same.

A couple hours later, Will called and then came by with his G5. We did a full backup of his old disks and moved all the data over to his new drives in the G5. While everything was moving over the network, we went to Mijares for dinner. Dinner took a little longer than we had thought, cause the wait was a little long... So we headed right to the movies after dinner. (yes, if you have not already seen the Borne Supremacy, you should go see it). We got home around midnight and got right back to work on Will's computer. Config php and apache and a couple other things. geek fun.

Sunday was relaxing all around. Jen and I slept in and did nothing all day long. Finally at 4 we met my parents over at Jen's father's house. He had decided it was about time all of us went to the Saddle Peak Lodge. So we headed out to Las Virgines (Jason should recognize that one) and headed into the Santa Monica Mountains. The restaurant is an old hunting lodge that specializes in game dishes. So everything on the menu looked extremely good. My parents seemed to really enjoy themselves, and Jen and I had a great time.

Comments:

Since I missed it on Friday, thanks again for all your SysAdmin-ing duties, and thanks again for all the tech support and whatnot this weekend and whenever I seem to run into a jam :-)

Posted by: Yams