Oct. 30th, 2003 11:24 am
Vacation meta-entry
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muckefuckTwenty-six brand new bright orange expansion tanks! And they all have to be installed RIGHT BELOW where I work. Whee! Seen from the end, they look like gigantic metal pumpkins. If they leave some outside tonight, I'd be sorely tempted to to have at them with semi-gloss black. Pretty!
There's so much I could post about California. I brought along my vacation journal, in which I create a one-page calendar for each trip and fill in telegraphic descriptions of each day's events. For instance, the entries for a week ago today read:
One approach would be to rearrange the entries thematically and do, for instance, a whole food post. That would have the effect of emphasising the Tu Lan trip, since my intention there was to compare the best Vietnamese food I'd ever even up till then to the food I've had in the last few weeks in my new 'hood. (Verdict: Tu Lan is as good as the best VN places I've eaten at in Chicago, but I don't think it's superior--even granting it points for atmosphere.) The banana pancakes at Café do Brasil and the cornish hens in Mountain View would hardly merit a mention--not because they weren't good, but because they don't stand out against some of the true faboo meals we had.
Or I organise entries by people. Those I wanted to reconnect with (like the crowd at dinner) and those I connected with by serendipity (like our highly entertaining Brazilian waiter and the kvetchy old Australian resident he was also serving). After all, that was the chief focus of the trip: Seeing people. So many possibilities, so little motivation to tackle them properly.
There's so much I could post about California. I brought along my vacation journal, in which I create a one-page calendar for each trip and fill in telegraphic descriptions of each day's events. For instance, the entries for a week ago today read:
- Café do Brasil
- Asian Art Mus.
- Tu Lan
- BART to Millbrae
- missed connex.
- dinner w/ Kcat, Mort, Seth, Olga, Mark
One approach would be to rearrange the entries thematically and do, for instance, a whole food post. That would have the effect of emphasising the Tu Lan trip, since my intention there was to compare the best Vietnamese food I'd ever even up till then to the food I've had in the last few weeks in my new 'hood. (Verdict: Tu Lan is as good as the best VN places I've eaten at in Chicago, but I don't think it's superior--even granting it points for atmosphere.) The banana pancakes at Café do Brasil and the cornish hens in Mountain View would hardly merit a mention--not because they weren't good, but because they don't stand out against some of the true faboo meals we had.
Or I organise entries by people. Those I wanted to reconnect with (like the crowd at dinner) and those I connected with by serendipity (like our highly entertaining Brazilian waiter and the kvetchy old Australian resident he was also serving). After all, that was the chief focus of the trip: Seeing people. So many possibilities, so little motivation to tackle them properly.
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