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My Adventure from One Week Ago
Apr. 10th, 2011 10:38 pmMy Sister-in-law Sharon (un-lj'ed) drove up from San Diego last Sunday, with her friend Liz, my two nephews Michael and Andrew, and Liz' son Daniel. What an opportunity for me, I thought! I've had a very heavy box full of Magic: the Gathering cards in my storeroom for years, and the young fellows have taken up the game. I get to clear out part of my junk, and they get a windfall! Added bonus: to get the box up the steps from the storeroom, I had to cut down and clear out the weeds that had grown up there, so I can say I did yardwork.
They were staying at the Quality Inn, "in the 3900 block on El Camino in Menlo Park," or so I understood Sharon to say. It took me something like an hour to confirm that there is no 3900 on El Camino in Menlo Park, East or West (I'm not counting the half hour I spent on Middlefield thinking it was El Camino). The Quality Inn was actually in Palo Alto, of course, and of course I drove into the Comfort Inn parking lot first, because is there any difference really? No matter, I finally hooked up with the travelling party, 2 hours late.
All worth it because, when that box came out of the trunk, I was instantly promoted to my nephews' favorite uncle. "Uh, you already were," Michael said. But then Daniel said, "Now you're my favorite uncle too," so it was all worth it again. Then they took me out for dinner. Since it was Palo Alto, gourmet pizza.
Yeah, I got more of these, I'm going to be posting my adventure from one week ago every day this week. Tuesday's is kinda weak.
They were staying at the Quality Inn, "in the 3900 block on El Camino in Menlo Park," or so I understood Sharon to say. It took me something like an hour to confirm that there is no 3900 on El Camino in Menlo Park, East or West (I'm not counting the half hour I spent on Middlefield thinking it was El Camino). The Quality Inn was actually in Palo Alto, of course, and of course I drove into the Comfort Inn parking lot first, because is there any difference really? No matter, I finally hooked up with the travelling party, 2 hours late.
All worth it because, when that box came out of the trunk, I was instantly promoted to my nephews' favorite uncle. "Uh, you already were," Michael said. But then Daniel said, "Now you're my favorite uncle too," so it was all worth it again. Then they took me out for dinner. Since it was Palo Alto, gourmet pizza.
Yeah, I got more of these, I'm going to be posting my adventure from one week ago every day this week. Tuesday's is kinda weak.
