Watertown and Beyond!!!

I am in Watertown, NY for the next two weeks. My company is releasing a new version of their software and I will be training my team for the first week and serve as an emergency escalation point the following week.

Next weekend is my birthday. I spent the weekend in LA with my family. It was very pleasant. Went to the dogpark (actually, it was a small dirt lot) with Charlie and my sister Carly. Then had some Vietnamese food with her and my mom.

It happened to be my parent's 30th wedding anniversary that day. WOW. Kind of balls me over that they've been together that long. It also reminds me I'll be 30 soon (not this year though).

We bought a chocolate-chocolate mousse cake in celebration. Aisha would've loved it. In fact I wish she could've made this trip. I forgot to ask her to come with me and she didn't say she wanted to go. Two desires passing through the night....

I then hung out with Akie and Goldie on Saturday night. We met in West LA at a place called Gaby's. My sister and Karl came with me. I met Akie's boyfriend Mike. Mark was also able to stop by. What a nice guy.

We then stopped at one of those "boba" places that are so prevalent in LA and played dominoes until late. Very G-rated.

My brother, sister and mom gave me early birthday presents. My brother gave me a very nice Fossil watch. All silver and steel and blue and very masculine. My sister got me a wine holder/champagne cooler and my mom got me a tea thermal. The thermal is racing red and is part of the same collection as one of my cocktail shakers. I told mom this and she didn't believe me.

I'll spend my birthday next weekend in Montreal. I'll drive in from Watertown and meet Aisha there. She is nice enough to work out of her company's office there and wait for me. I'm looking forward to seeing her and whooping it up and staying at the hotel we booked. It looked nice from the internet pictures we saw.