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July 25, 2005
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Reasons I'm Smiling Right Now
In approximate chronological order:
- Friday
- The food service guy remembered to bring the pickles out for me at lunch.
- I wrapped up my last day of work until mid-August.
- Saturday
- Swimming lessons with Veronika went much better than two weeks ago.
- Veronika had so much enthusiasm for donuts at breakfast.
- I bought a ticket for my first Newport Jazz Festival. I'll be there on Sunday, August 14th, for Roy Haynes's 80th birthday celebration, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Joshua Redman (among others).
- I got a haircut. So fresh and so clean.
- Sushi for dinner! I am slowly learning to eat everything. I've always enjoyed sushi when I've had it, but that's only been a few times. I love that I now live in a place that good take-out sushi is a safe possibility. I am also happy to report that I now rather enjoy green tea (in addition to the black tea I've been enjoying for some time).
- Sunday
- Veronika had so much enthusiasm for bacon at breakfast.
- After a long day of realizing how difficult the simplest auto body work is, it's finally Suntory time.
- I am eighteen hours away from boarding a plane for my longest vacation in a few years--two weeks and change, consisting of a week in Austria and a week at the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. Highlights will include my mother-in-law's cooking, a visit to my favorite Austrian winemaker, going out with my wife in Vienna, eating lamb at the roadside place in Croatia, swimming in the crystal clear Adriatic, catching up on all the sun I've been missing, eating seafood pizza by the water at night, then stracciatella on the way home... and many other things that don't involve eating. I am looking forward to every minute of it, not only for the fun that I know I'll have but also to watch Veronika experience it all: being able to interact with her aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins for the first time, being at the beach, turning two, etc.
I'll see you all soon.