A short note on things for the past few months. I
started working for Harvard Management Corporation on January
13th admist massive snowstorms and prenaturally cold weather.
I'm commuting into Boston again, which is a bit longer (like, an
hour and a half door to door one way) but which includes a 45
minute train ride and a 20 minute walk, which makes it more
tolerable.
And I went out to California and saw Bill and Janet and company,
and visited with Alison Maker. We went to the
Getty, which
I've always wanted to see. It was warm, a nice break from
New England weather, and the Getty was amazing. |
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| And I did the Unity game convention with Eric Haines and his
son Evan, Deron Dorna and his girlfriend. Sort of a fun
"get a lot of gamers in a room and grab a game that looks
interesting" kind of one day game-a-thon. We
had dinner afterwards at a Thai place in Topsfield that was very
good. |
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I took Brie and Pam, our housecleaner for the last 20 years,
out to dinner at the Herb Lyceum. It's a pre fix menu with
revolving chefs and European style seating, and we've always had
a great experience there. |
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| There were more trips to California ... visiting the
Huntington
Garden with Alison twice, visiting with Bill, Janet, Nick and Anne; Brie
was out for some of that as well, overlapping my visit, with her friend
Jess (who went to Bonaire with us). Along with playing a variety
of games with Alison, Maddy, and her cousin Ashley. And Dobie the
kitten, a very playful, curious egytian. |
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Then it was Alison's turn to come out
east, bring Maddy out for college tours. Brie, Will, their
friends and I met Alison and Maddy at RPI, where we all went out
to Angelos 677 Prime in Albany for dinner. Then Brie and I
met them later in the week at her brothers. Then she and
Maddy joined us at our house to meet Bill, SangOk, Andy and
Dani.
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There was a weekend at
PAXEAST, a big gaming convention held in the Boston
Convention Center, where I met Eric Haines, Jim Hlavity, and
Jim's son and Daughter for gawking and some game playing
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| And the weekend after tha, I met Alison in Chicago, where we stayed
at the Langham and
visited the Field Museum, the
Chicago Art institute (which was
HUGE and had a number of cool exhibits and an amazing number of very
famous paintings), and did the general tour of
Millenium Park, including the famous
Cloud Gate. The
Langham gave a new meaning to the word "swanky" and was the coolest
combination of ultra modern and retro victorian ... Alison and I have
decided we have to visit every Langham in the world and compare them to
our experience with the one in Chicgoa. |
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| And another run up to RPI to visit Will, who was
feeling under the weather and decided not to join Brie,
her friend Megan, and I at
Angelos 667 prime for
dinner; to the right, took Brie and Diana out to dinner
at Tangierino,
and Brie and her friend Carly out to see "Heartbeat
of Home," a dance show put together by the people
that did Riverdance. |
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