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  • September 3, 2007 at 2:12 am #59346
    David C. Matthews
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    We got back from California last night, spent most of today getting over jet lag.  Believe me, you don't need a time machine to experience time-travel paradoxes… not when a flight that leaves at 10:05 AM can last six hours twenty minutes (including a 40-to-45-minute layover in Houston) and still arrive at 1:25 PM, three hours and twenty minutes later (because of time zones… 10:05 AM Eastern time, 1:25PM Pacific time).  The trip back was worse… departure 9:25 AM (Pacific), arrival 8:05 PM (Eastern): seven hours forty minutes, including a 2-hour-20-minute stop in albuquerque to change planes, that got us home  11 hours forty minutes later!  Makes my brain hurt still, just thinking about it…

    But we had a great time.  Did a lot of driving around, saw some sights in person that we'd only seen in photos, movies and TV shows: the Pacific Caost Highway, Hollywood Boulevard, Disneyland (of course we did Disney, had to compare the Florida park with the original… and the original wins out in a lot of ways).  Had a nice 30th anniversary dinner, met some interesting people.  Looking forward to going back.

    But I'm just as happy being home.  Going without the Internet for a week is longer than I like.  (Yeah, they had broadband access at our hotel — for $2.50 a day, and I didn't bring an ethernet cable to connect with anyway…)

    So: glad I went, glad I'm back.  Hope to get some drawing done soon, it's been entirely too long since a post.

    Thanks for all the well wishes, everybody everybody!

    (cross-posted to deviantART)

    September 3, 2007 at 2:24 am #59347
    stmercy2020
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    Welcome back, DCM!  Good to hear that your trip went well. ;D

    September 3, 2007 at 2:24 am #59348
    Lingster
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    I cannot believe you went to Disneyland.  I was kidding.

    Glad you're back.  Now go finish Tetsuko.

    September 3, 2007 at 2:26 am #59349
    JimmyDimples
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    Glad you're back, DC!  Glad you had a great time in Cali with the missus, too!  ;D

    Closest I've been there was my very first flight to China, with a two-hour layover in LAX… no time to see anything.  🙁

    I know the blues on jet lag… hey, you should try it across the Pacific Ocean, and switching the AM for PM.  With the International Date Line and today/yesterday/tomorrow thrown in for laughs. 

    September 3, 2007 at 3:09 am #59350
    Muscle Growth Nut
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    Return of the David! Welcome back!

    September 3, 2007 at 6:05 am #59351
    David C. Matthews
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    I cannot believe you went to Disneyland.  I was kidding.

    Of course I went to D-land.  I had free tickets! ;D

    September 3, 2007 at 6:10 am #59352
    Lingster
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    Of course I went to D-land.  I had free tickets! ;D

    Argh.

    September 3, 2007 at 2:33 pm #59353
    cpbell0033944
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    Argh.

    Double argh!  Welcome back, though, DCM. 😉

    September 3, 2007 at 4:01 pm #59354
    AlexG
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    Welcome back, Sir DCM!  ;D

    You have much Amaz0ns goodness to catch up on . . .  😉  8)

    “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
    ~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

    September 3, 2007 at 5:31 pm #59355
    nam
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    Glad to hear you had a good time, I would have gone to Universal studios in stead of Disney, but hey, free tickets!

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