Stacey and I are getting ready for another trip to the San Fran peninsula. I've got a user conference to attend in Santa Clara and Stacey is coming along for the ride. We're planning to meet Beth and Ken for a San Jose Giants (A) playoff game, some wine tasting, and some walking around SF. Stacey's flying First Class this trip as we rotate every time I get upgraded. This trip, it's her turn.
It looks like I'll have a last minute request from NASA to support a set of meetings in Japan at the end of September. We'll be looking at airfare this weekend. This in addition to our trip to Munich in mid-October.
Also, Stacey's cousin Cheryl called to say she'd be in Vegas at the end of October and she'd be free over Halloween. So we're looking into plane and hotel reservations to have some fun with our Cuz in Sin City.
All for now,
S2JG
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Thanks Dionne, but we found it. Actually our Continental pilot found SJC.
Stacey and I are rollin' around San Jose and the Santa Cruz mountains (hills I'd call them) in a white Lincoln Towncar (yes we splurged) with about 9k miles on it. We also rented the GPS nav system, just cause we can. The Garmin nuvi device is cool. We were able to create 'favorites' before we left and saved them on our SecureDigital memory card. When we got into the car we just popped in our SD card and brought up the favorites and voila!
Friday afternoon we headed to the main area of San Jose to the J Lohr tasting room for some yummy wines. Some winners and some losers. We still had an hour before the other winery closed for the day, Picchetti. This is the winery in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mtns. that was a possibility for our wedding reception. It also has the peacocks on the grounds.
At Picchetti, we had an energetic employee pouring wines, selling goods, chatting up the 20 or so folks in the area. They had quite a few wines to offer for tasting but they had run out of our favorite Zin as they were down to just a few cases left from their 400 cases produced this year. When Smiley (or something close to that....I think he was a Kiwi) found out we were from Texas and had been there 8 years ago, he threw the '5 tastes' rule out the window. We were able to sample 4 cabernets from the region: 1 cab/merlot blend, 1 100% cab from sea level in Los Altos, 1 100% cab from the top of the Montebello at 3000', and 1 100% cab from the same elevation but blended from the owner's private vines. All were delicious but the later was just amazing and we're coming home with a bottle. We also signed up for their wine club so we'll be able to share some of their wines 4/year. Dad, there's a port (Zin/Petite Syrah) with your name on it coming back on the plane.
After the winery, we headed to our hotel to checkin. A nice all-suite hotel which I've stayed at before when working our here in 2000 -- Larkspur Landing. After 'freshening' up we decided to head to our favorite Sushi Bar/Dance Club/Sake Bomb place near Stanford in Palo Alto -- Miyake. It was just as loud, crowded, happening, and yummy as always. The names were: Stanford Roll (crab, asparagus, tomato) , Google Roll (fried prawn, avocado, spicy tuna), Microsoft Roll (soft shell crab, spicy tuna, lettuce, tobiko), Caribbean Roll (tuna, avocado, wakame), Texas Nigiri (beef, kaiware, garlic, sesame oil, teriyake sauce) and Potsticker Roll. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmm. After dinner we walked off the rolls with a stroll down University Dr.
We'd have to call that a pretty successful day.
Ciao, S2
Stacey and I are rollin' around San Jose and the Santa Cruz mountains (hills I'd call them) in a white Lincoln Towncar (yes we splurged) with about 9k miles on it. We also rented the GPS nav system, just cause we can. The Garmin nuvi device is cool. We were able to create 'favorites' before we left and saved them on our SecureDigital memory card. When we got into the car we just popped in our SD card and brought up the favorites and voila!
Friday afternoon we headed to the main area of San Jose to the J Lohr tasting room for some yummy wines. Some winners and some losers. We still had an hour before the other winery closed for the day, Picchetti. This is the winery in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mtns. that was a possibility for our wedding reception. It also has the peacocks on the grounds.
At Picchetti, we had an energetic employee pouring wines, selling goods, chatting up the 20 or so folks in the area. They had quite a few wines to offer for tasting but they had run out of our favorite Zin as they were down to just a few cases left from their 400 cases produced this year. When Smiley (or something close to that....I think he was a Kiwi) found out we were from Texas and had been there 8 years ago, he threw the '5 tastes' rule out the window. We were able to sample 4 cabernets from the region: 1 cab/merlot blend, 1 100% cab from sea level in Los Altos, 1 100% cab from the top of the Montebello at 3000', and 1 100% cab from the same elevation but blended from the owner's private vines. All were delicious but the later was just amazing and we're coming home with a bottle. We also signed up for their wine club so we'll be able to share some of their wines 4/year. Dad, there's a port (Zin/Petite Syrah) with your name on it coming back on the plane.
After the winery, we headed to our hotel to checkin. A nice all-suite hotel which I've stayed at before when working our here in 2000 -- Larkspur Landing. After 'freshening' up we decided to head to our favorite Sushi Bar/Dance Club/Sake Bomb place near Stanford in Palo Alto -- Miyake. It was just as loud, crowded, happening, and yummy as always. The names were: Stanford Roll (crab, asparagus, tomato) , Google Roll (fried prawn, avocado, spicy tuna), Microsoft Roll (soft shell crab, spicy tuna, lettuce, tobiko), Caribbean Roll (tuna, avocado, wakame), Texas Nigiri (beef, kaiware, garlic, sesame oil, teriyake sauce) and Potsticker Roll. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmm. After dinner we walked off the rolls with a stroll down University Dr.
We'd have to call that a pretty successful day.
Ciao, S2
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Storm Update 11:30 AM
We just checked the Harris County Rainfall Map
and see that our area is getting the most, our weather station shows around 5 inches while the county gauges around us are in the 3-4in range. We've also noticed that Katy and Cypress haven't got much yet, hopefully a good drink is on its way.
Our lake looks like its back up close to normal! Yippie.
Other than that we're catching up on bookwork, odds and ends from our Munich trip, and getting ready for our next adventure to Seattle. Stacey is recounting our Munich adventure to post later today.
Just enjoying our 'free' day.
Love, s2
and see that our area is getting the most, our weather station shows around 5 inches while the county gauges around us are in the 3-4in range. We've also noticed that Katy and Cypress haven't got much yet, hopefully a good drink is on its way.
Our lake looks like its back up close to normal! Yippie.
Other than that we're catching up on bookwork, odds and ends from our Munich trip, and getting ready for our next adventure to Seattle. Stacey is recounting our Munich adventure to post later today.
Just enjoying our 'free' day.
Love, s2
TS Edouard -- UPDATE
Well we woke up this morning to see that our weather guru at Lockheed, Bryan Batson, was corrent in prognosticating a curve into the mainland before getting to Galveston. For the record that guess was at noon yesterday.
So now we hopefully will have a day of watching our lake fill up with water to bring the level back to normal after a long, dry summer. Drink up fishies.
I also remembered to restart our weather station this morning so give it a look at:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXSEABR4
Hopefully the software won't crash too much today.
-s2
Well we woke up this morning to see that our weather guru at Lockheed, Bryan Batson, was corrent in prognosticating a curve into the mainland before getting to Galveston. For the record that guess was at noon yesterday.
So now we hopefully will have a day of watching our lake fill up with water to bring the level back to normal after a long, dry summer. Drink up fishies.
I also remembered to restart our weather station this morning so give it a look at:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXSEABR4
Hopefully the software won't crash too much today.
-s2
Monday, August 04, 2008
TS Edouard
We've moved all our outdoor items into the garage. On the interior, we've collected all our critical items in one place. If we need to leave, it will be a quick pack. We put all of Jake's dried flowers into ziplocs and also collected all his memorable items to go with us.
We've got our batteries, flashlights, candles, lanters, and radio ready to go.
We're now ready to prepare our yummy pasta and cheese dish for our Anniversary dinner with a 'cake for 2' from Kroger.
Work (& JSC) is closed tomorrow so I might go to work on Wed and Thurs of this week before heading to Seattle to visit Toddorado.
We'll keep you posted.
Love, S2
We've moved all our outdoor items into the garage. On the interior, we've collected all our critical items in one place. If we need to leave, it will be a quick pack. We put all of Jake's dried flowers into ziplocs and also collected all his memorable items to go with us.
We've got our batteries, flashlights, candles, lanters, and radio ready to go.
We're now ready to prepare our yummy pasta and cheese dish for our Anniversary dinner with a 'cake for 2' from Kroger.
Work (& JSC) is closed tomorrow so I might go to work on Wed and Thurs of this week before heading to Seattle to visit Toddorado.
We'll keep you posted.
Love, S2
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