sweet!

Just got home.  Woooooooooooh.  Now to unpack and do laundry.  My 275mm Yanagi is coming back perfectly flat and sharper than most razors, it should arrive in a couple days.  The repair ended up costing 85.00 after shipping, but who cares? It's still cheaper than a new knife and in better condition.  In the future hopefully I'll be doing that myself though...

Boston was sick, can't get enough of it.  The weather would get old though.  I want to go through the fine art museum there a dozen more times, the budhist section was awesome, and I saw Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh...!!!  All sorts of neat stuff from the pyramids in Cairo too.  Stepped into a hole in the wall jazz club and watched some Berklee kids cruise through a bunch of straight ahead stuff.  It was fun.  Brandy and Tiven took Hannah and I out to the Italian district for some dope food and good wine.  The pumpkin ravioli and truffle foam were awesome, but I liked the dessert best.

Florida was much warmer.  Swimming in the ocean with just swim trunks and some perfect waves in the middle of a rainstorm is surreal.  I've never been in ocean water much warmer than 50 degrees F.  Went out to some excellent sea food with the 'rents and learned how to surf (well, I suck at it so far, but it is fun).  I met a bunch of crazy relatives and had a good time with lots of food and family, hot weather and all that.  Spent the last few days visiting my Niece and Nephew in Cocoa at my sister Kristin's place.  Her and Davin took us out to sea world and we had a blast surfing.  Lots of good pictures for posterity and all...