Grrr… I’ve just poked at Qantas’ Frequent Flyer program, and it seems I’d earn a good 17,000 points for each return trip to San Francisco I’ve done. That’s enough for a return flight to Sydney, each time. Or a good portion of a return flight to, say, the Whitsundays. ‘course, I’m pretty sure my dad… Read more
Last Saturday I went down to Mornington and took some photos of the beach and whatnot, simply so that I have some. When I got back and started processing them, it also reminded me that I still had some photos from Sydney, and of the cats. So, they’re all up now – Sydney, the cats… Read more
Yesterday Sket, Chris & I went down to the beach at Mornington. Beautiful day for it, and it was great. The somewhat amusing part was when we arrived and first parked. I went to put the club lock on the steering wheel, and did in fact put it half on… when I remembered that the… Read more
I never seem to have too much trouble getting anywhere, but returning always seems to turn into a miniature disaster. The Lake Tahoe trip, for example. The flight back from California was no exception. Let’s recap… As I wrote earlier, I had to twice go into San Francisco Airport to work out the changes to… Read more
So tonight Julius & I went up to Stanford for a bit of a jog. I use “jog” lightly, because there was relatively minimal actual jogging. Although I did better than I expected. I did take my camera, but we didn’t leave until after dark anyway, so while I saw everything, and it was amazing,… Read more
I really hate airports. The irony of having to drag myself out to one two weekends in a row – at 3 hours each way – is not entirely lost on me, although certainly isn’t amusing me at this point. So the first time I went up there, a week ago, was to change my… Read more
So, last Saturday I ventured once more to San Francisco. Actually, I had to sort out more #@%! with my return flight, so, I had to go up to San Francisco Airport anyway. That’s all now sorted, it seems, finally. I didn’t have any particular destination again, just like the first time, but figured Golden… Read more