A Saturday Well Spent

Today I had a brie and turkey sandwich lunch at the Desert Botanical Gardens and again took some time to walk through the Childhood Dreams sculptures, explored the Hall of Flame fire museum, called relatives, bought too many books at Changing Hands, visited my favorite canine Brady and took him for a long run, borrowed a friend's cable television to catch the end of a Psych episode and all of a Burn Notice, and met up with friends to see Stardust.

A truly excellent day.

However, no day is perfect. Today I confirmed that grabbing onto a cactus, while the natural and reflexive thing to do, is not a good way to break one's fall. (No, this didn't happen at the DBG, so you need send no garden police after me.)

Hall of Flame reminded me of home, it having so many Wisconsin artifacts and roots.



Stardust Trailer

Flew back to MKE today

Flew back to Milwaukee today with my parents on Midwest. Nice to be able to fly with them, simplified the logistics a bit. Also, I like flying through Milwaukee and the Midwest airline cookies.

Beautiful day. The gardens at home are beautiful and my Vince Lombardi 5K spruce is looking healthy and has grown taller than me. I am glad I visited my hometown.

Went to the Verizon store to get a new cell phone for my dad. His new LG 8300 seems to work much better than the old phone. Was a rough patch there where Sunrocket bought the farm and neither of my parents' mobile phones were working all that well, leaving them largely phoneless.