Food

Oh, burrito, how I have missed you.

Also, I love BevMo.

Travel Update

Greetings from the Air New Zealand Lounge in Sydney. My thoughts. The Melbourne Red Carpet Room doesn't hold a candle to the ANZ lounge in Sydney. While both have all you can drink, pour your own booze, wine, and beer, ANZ has free Wifi, curry dishes, chocolate moose (UPDATE: I was called out for spelling - that's mousse, most likely misspelled by excessive consumption), and seats worth sitting in. It also has a view, and it's big. It's rather nice. It's not Singapore Kris Silver lounge like I was lucky enough to see in ICN, but I'd freakin take it. Also, they are showing cricket, which I still think is strange.

I had first to SYD from MEL, which is no huge surprise I guess. I'm hoping for the upgrade from SYD to SFO. If I don't get it, I'm on the upper deck, by choice, which I'm rather excited about, because I'm a huge geek.

I wonder if any of my fellow plane geeks read this?

Travel

Off to SFO in the morning for a week's work. I'm looking forward to seeing friends and co-workers, as well as good beer and Mexican food.

Watch out, Mission.

Fwd: another reason not to move to oz

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: adam
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Subject: another reason not to move to oz
To: brendan


http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/11/03/13221_local-news.html

again, be afraid.


Update - in case you missed the spider eating the bird up in Queensland: http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/10/23/11601_local-news.html

Post Election Notes

In my lifetime, I've never had the chance to see a country so energized and optimistic as I did on Tuesday night. I really regret not still being in San Francisco to join the impromptu street party that broke out. Or, for that matter, the parties in Seattle, LA, NYC, Chicago, and I even heard, Raleigh. I'm sure there were many more. I've never seen one person bring so many people together in such a powerful way. I wonder if this is what it was like during the times of MLK and JFK?

Generally, I'm happy about how Tuesday went. My comments:

Things I liked:
Obama getting elected
California passing the high speed rail bond
North Carolina (finally) being decided for Obama
The global reaction to Obama being elected

Things I didn't like:
California passing Prop 8, making it illegal for same sex couples to marry (and other states following suit)
My Macbook battery suddenly dying Tuesday night (second time since I've had it, first was under warranty, less than 300 cycles...)

More good than bad, I guess. But what happens to all the marriages that have already been granted?

Go Vote

I mean seriously. This may be the most important election in many of our lives. Go show the world that we aren't a bunch of apathetic people.

And happy birthday, Joey. I hope we have a great pres(id)ent for you.

What's the fastest way to spend A$160?

Lock your keys in your house like a dumbass.