Momentary Lasagna

I usually try not to talk too much about what goes on during the day because it's just work related. Besides, I'd probably get yelled at for talking about the project in a "public forum". Like I work for NASA or something. We make golf shirts! We're not defense contractors. At any rate, we had a pretty uppity meeting this evening about the project. I walked away pretty annoyed with the whole situation. I actually deleted a whole paragraph about the details of the meeting.

It's getting colder here by the day. And due to my hasty packing I usually forget something. Most of the time it's not important. Just one of those items that makes you say "Doh!". Not this time, I forgot a major piece of equipment. A jacket. Oh sure, I've got a number of mid-level sweaters for warmth. But, the actual "outer shell" type of jacket? Yeah, on the coat rack at home. I can picture it waiting there for me. Waiting to be useful in San Diego. I'll make do.

The drive to and from work is fairly nice. I've usually stayed close to the shop and the drive has been on busy freeway style roads. But, with the drive in this time, I get a nice country road to take. Nice change.

I found that the tank that I'm driving has two settings for the turn signals. One is on as we'd normally have them. You either turn it off yourself, or it turns off by completing the turn. The other is a momentary type. It turns the blinkers on for 4 or 5 blinks then automatically stops. Kind of cool.

Looks like the hotel staff replaced the batteries or the remote, because it worked fine last night. I got to switch through all 10 channels from the comfort of my bed. Not that there was anything to watch. One of the channels is nothing but sitcoms from the States. So, I watched Srubs for an hour before dinner.

I decided to try the restaurant attached to the hotel that I'm staying in. It's seems a bit more posh than it should be. But, they had several steak selections on the menu. I then surprised myself by not ordering the steak that I'd been craving and ordering, get this, a spinach and mushroom lasagna. It was quite lovely. The cheese sauce that covered it got to be a bit much towards the end though. Wash it down with a pint of Murphy's Irish Stout and some coffee. I think I'm afraid to order more steak while I'm here. I can't seem to get one that's well prepared (other than Outback).Maybe I'll hit the attached pub and check it out next.

I've gotten a couple sites for updates on the fires that have calmed me down some. I feel that I'm a little bit more informed. Not to mention some email updates from friends and family. Not that any of you really need them as you are there, here are the links I've got:

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