Weekend

Another weekend in the books here at Flying W Central. It's been a good one - I got to use power tools (circular saw and orbital sander), took my wife to a nice Italian dinner, complete with a bottle of Chianti, and today we had a family outing to Disneyland.

Claire and Cameron had a great time at the "Happiest Place." They were both pleased that It's A Small World was open - its been closed the last couple times we've been - although Cameron was a little disappointed that the bubble machine had not been fixed. Cameron got to drive a red car at Autopia. Claire got to have a little chat with Cinderella - she thinks it's nice that Claire is dressing as Minnie Mouse for Halloween. They both wanted to ride a roller coaster, so we went on Big Thunder Mountain. Twice. Having a pass makes these trips a lot more fun, I think - there isn't a lot of pressure to pack Everything Into One Day.

My Angels came back tonight (after opening up a 5-0 lead in the first inning) to win 11-10 and even up the World Series at one game apiece. Let me just say, however, that I have never seen anybody hit a Troy Percival pitch as hard as Barry Bonds did in the top of the ninth tonight. I mean, to say that he crushed it just doesn't do it justice. I don't think it's come down yet. Luckily for the Angels, nobody had managed to get on base ahead of Barry. Here endeth the sports report.

One comment about the picture I posted in the "About" section. I neglected to mention that it was (is?) heavily airbrushed. Let's just say that my dermatologist would not have recognized the person in that picture.