On My New York Vacation

Fri, August 22, 2008 - 6:54 AM PST

I'm on vacation for the better part of the next two weeks. I'm tying up some loose ends today and dropping my car off at the shop (bushings again). Then first thing in the morning, Linda and I are catching a flight to New York.

Linda has this piece of graph paper with our entire week planned out. She is always saying "let's go to XYZ this weekend" but never has anything for us to actually do there, so I tend to veto these requests. She hates this. So she took this matter into her own hands and micro-planned the entire trip. I've got my work cut out for me next week to live up to the tourist expectations that her calendar has me scheduled to do... and just think: all I wanted to do was see a couple of Yankees/Redsox games at the stadium before they tear it down...

Saturday of next week, we're catching a train to Erie to see my family for a few days. I haven't been home in about 4 years so this is long overdue. Then we're flying from Erie back to Seattle. Well, that's not really true, we're flying from Erie to Cleveland, and from Cleveland to somewhere in New Jersey, and from there back to Seattle. That day is going to be pretty nasty. Then a full day off after I get back to Seattle before I return to work on Wednesday.

And that's my plan.