Oh, no, lazypadawan's back!

Got back from a long weekend up north. My brother, the SIL, and friends of theirs with a 2-year-old son rented a house in scenic Carmel, CA, best known for having Clint Eastwood as a mayor some years ago. It's really a lovely place. Take the Shire from LOTR, dump it on the Pacific coast, sprinkle in a bunch of rich retirees, and you have Carmel. There are a lot of cool stores and great restaurants. Plus we saw Carrot Top walking around! You can't beat that ;). There weren't any fireworks on the 4th, so we settled for grilling and playing Cranium instead. We also visited some nearby locales like Big Sur, Pebble Beach, and Pacific Grove. All of them were beautiful places. Pacific Grove has a Borg's Motel. Really! I pointed at it and said, "Don't stay there! You will be assimilated!" Totally embarrassed my brother. Also ate a lot of places stocked with the local, fresh, and organic. It is Nor Cal after all. The only major drawback was the hellish evening spent at SFO last night, thanks to Southwest. My flight was supposed to have left at 7:20 p.m.. The problem was the plane was supposed to come from Denver and it was held up there for THREE hours due to thunderstorms. So my flight ended up being over 4 hours late and I got home after 1 a.m.. Needless to say, I'm dragging here. The long wait though allowed me to finish a book club selection for work...The Book Thief has to be the most depressing book I've read in a loooong time. Good Lord.

But I did get some fan fic plot bunnies while deprived of the usual stimuli, so hopefully I'll have the time to actually write them!

Looky here, A/P fans, a shipper shirt!

While perusing various unlicensed geek t-shirt sites, I saw this ladies' tee for sale on Geeklabel.com for $21.95:

http://www.geeklabel.com/show_product.php?product_id=320

They do make fun of the line, but by gum, I'm taking it back from the haters! I hope it gets here in time for Comic Con since you can customize colors and stuff.