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Well, persistence has its perks. With blogger, its all about trying the same procedure at different times of day, loading files in different orders, and perhaps changing from boxers to briefs. I don’t know. Tonight, these pictures loaded.

So, above are Michele and Rob…as promised. (Smile, Robbie, your name is in lights!) And below, is a shot of the “Living Room” of the W in San Diego.

Well, two fun updates here. One is an update from Elena. I think she misses me…young love in Spring 🙂 Yes, she wrote today:

Greetings my dear. I am sorry that did not write to you for a longtime. Where I go to Internet – cafe to write to you letters all computers broke. The manager of it cafe told that it was a virus. So I probably cannot read your letters which you to me sent. Weather here good. The sun shines. Pleasure on soul. How are you? I hope spring came at you in the country? Write.

But the best spam of the day goes to somebody from somewhere. I don’t know more, because I don’t speak whatever the language is. So yes, an entire email–a full page of water cooler fun, I’m sure–but written as such: שמאל דוגמת שמעון פרס

So, I have delayed posting the riveting tales of my trip to San Diego, because I wanted to post a couple of simple photos to illustrate. Well, the photos won’t load. And I’m giving up.

So, you will just have to imagine the whimsical nautical theme of the W San Diego. And you’ll just have to take my word that Jeff’s dear friend Rob joined my co-worker Michele and me for $11 mojitos.

Without photos, the trip is fairly ordinary, to be honest. The flights were on time and uneventful. The W hotel was hip, but still just a place to sleep…albeit with cool bath products and beach ball pillows on the bed. And Starbucks in San Diego tastes very much like Starbucks in San Francisco.

All in all, a very nice, quick business trip with time for laughs.

Oh, I DID notice an interesting new item in the in-flight SkyMall catalog. No, it wasn’t the Harry Potter wand or the Batman money clip (please). It was the doggy steps that caught my eye. If you recall, I ran across the deal of the century on As Seen on TV Doggy Steps–two for $39. Well these same steps (ok, same LOOKING) were $79.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer.

Just a friendly tip from your favorite thrifty shopper 🙂

Our fireplace is without a doubt, the BEST addition we have made to our home…hands down. And days like today remind us.

First day of spring? I don’t think so. Yes, the rains returned…again. Sigh. (Not that anyone ELSE is enjoying spring: Tuesday in Muskegon 35F, Richmond 39F, Washington 36F, New York 42F. Makes our 52F seem like a heat wave!)

So, tonight, it was Buster’s turn to curl up by the fire and dream of that elusive sunbeam.

When it was rainy, the blog well ran dry. But this weekend, the sun came out, and Jeff and I wandered outside, blinking at the cloudless skies. Glorious.

On both Saturday and Sunday, we took our bikes out. Just a short warm-up on Saturday, but a nice, full afternoon today. We threw the bikes on the car rack, and drove down to Palo Alto and the Stanford campus–a beautiful (and flat) rambling campus with plenty of bike-friendly areas.

One highlight was stopping to look inside the Memorial Church, which opened in 1903. It dominates the main quad with its huge mosaics–inside and out. Hopefully, Jeff will post some of the interior photos.

And of course, I did try and find some of the whimsy of the day…

The rains return tomorrow, but we’ve got other pictures from the weekend to post through the week.