{"id":636,"date":"2005-10-22T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/22\/icebergs-and-planes\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T18:15:00","slug":"icebergs-and-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/22\/icebergs-and-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Icebergs and Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a big wrap-up from the last couple of weeks:<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I flew home, having negotiated with the boss for a day off on Monday (the <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/10\/03\/a-day-in-the-life\/\">incident with the painters<\/a> and a Friday night shift that lasted until 3:15 in the morning were solid negotiating points for me).  Nadia&#8217;s birthday wish was that I attend her party and &#8220;not be able to drive home&#8221;, and I happily obliged.  The Bay Bridge closed for repairs at 1:00 AM, so sadly the night ended a bit earlier than I would have liked, but it was a fun evening and Aaron managed to get me, Chi, and my rented Ford Escape home without incident.  Saturday and Sunday weren&#8217;t particularly noteworthy with the exception of the best dinner ever at Chow, some Balderdash stupidity (&#8220;&#8230;about a French squid and his companion, a whale&#8230;&#8221;), and the lamentations of the third member of the buddy triad, re-dubbed &#8220;the Dot&#8221; for his missing-in-action hijinks.<\/p>\n<p>I flew out under perfect skies on Monday afternoon, only to hear a warning from the captain halfway to LA that everyone should &#8220;hold on&#8221; as we steered through storms and watched lightning blaze just outside of the plane&#8217;s windows.  After landing a rainstorm of biblical proportions greeted me, apparently brought here by an unknowing <a href=\"http:\/\/osmium.blogspot.com\/2005_10_01_osmium_archive.html#112941507040028214\">rain god<\/a> who was visiting from New York.  The evening out was highlighted by Audrey&#8217;s apt description of someone who doesn&#8217;t own a car in LA (&#8220;*censored*&#8221;) and Josh&#8217;s confirmation that my original guess at the definition of &#8220;agro&#8221; wasn&#8217;t a sign of brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>After navigating through downtown amidst streets closed due a Mission Impossible 3 shooting I again managed to meet up with Josh on Wednesday, and along with Audrey and a rotating cast of music industry folks we spent far too long at the Rainbow.  I stumbled home around 2:00, making for an interesting day at work six hours later.  Last night&#8217;s excitement was a dinner-and-a-movie showing of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0339291\/\">Lemony Snicket&#8217;s<\/a>, during which I planned to refrain from drinking and failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>And because it is completely unrelated to anything mentioned above, here&#8217;s a nice iceberg picture:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/antarctica\/highlights\/pages\/28-roll\/02-paulet-iceberg.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iceberg\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"396\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/28-roll\/02-paulet-iceberg.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Iceberg near Paulet Island in January 2004.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a big wrap-up from the last couple of weeks: Last weekend I flew home, having negotiated with the boss for a day off on Monday (the incident with the painters and a Friday night shift that lasted until 3:15 in the morning were solid negotiating points for me). Nadia&#8217;s birthday wish was that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/10\/22\/icebergs-and-planes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Icebergs and Planes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}