Went to my favorite Thai Restaurant in Waikiki last night (Keos) and ordered what I ‘thought’ was just pieces of fish in green curry, instead out comes the whole damn fish!!!
And it took THREE of us to eat all of it…
So, finished dinner, off to the airport, and a battle with TSA over my @#$^& PEN of all things…
Carteach gifted me one of these fantastic pens, and of course the TSA idjits at Honoruru thought it was a weapon… sigh
So they made me put in my backpack and ran it back through the xray… WTF???
So red-eye to SFO (no sleep), rent-a-wreck and off I go with TWO cups of coffee heading up to see my daughters…
An hour later, another cup of coffee and I need to get off 101 before I run over/into something, so I jump off and go via Calistoga and over the Calistoga Grade (FUN road), which woke me up VERY quickly…
So I’m winding over, around and through the hills, when I hear a snarling exhaust coming up behind…
Passing area about 1/2 mile later and a REAL Lotus 7 goes by me like I’m sitting still. Old gent driving, smiling ear to ear, driving gloves and all; the passenger? Not so much… more like PURE terror 🙂
Another couple of miles and an old Triumph TT and a BSA 650 Lightning go squirting by too (and also ridden by old farts)…
At the daughters, so it’s na… zzzzZZZZZ
Oh sorry, must have nodded off there…
I hear Ruth Buzzie’s voice: “We don’t make sense, we don’t have to! We’re the TSA!”
Sorry they gave you a hard time, the idjits. I wonder if they understand just what sorry ass worthless pukes they really are? Must suck spending your days being… well… worse than useless.
In any case, enjoy the family time, and don’t sweat the morons. Consider them ‘Job Security’.
Enjoy the family and catch up on some well earned R&R
Sounds like you earned some well deserved rest!
You do have your adventures in food!
If you actually get into Sacramento where I work (but refuse to live), the only thing really worth seeing is the state Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento. A fine, fine display of railroad iron and history. An actual Cab Forward in there too!
BZ
Lotus 7….Old Guys Rule!
http://www.oldguysrule.com/catalog/T_Shirts-7-1.html
I ran into a couple of ROTC students at Aero Design East competition yesterday, one of whom is going into the navy as an NFO…gave him your blog address…he’s going to fly UAVs (as is the other one who’s going Air Force; no real airplane slots these days).
When you eat ‘jungle style fish’ you occasionally get ‘dengue fever’. Or so has been my experience. Eat carefully, my friend.
Glad you made it. I definitely woudl have passed on the fish, not a fan anyway, unless beer battered and served with a Guinness.
Enjoy the rest and the sleep. Give a phone call when you have a chance so we can catch up.
Carteach- True! 🙂
Julie- Trying…
AGirl- yeah, right… I’m the Rotty’s chew toy, and have to build a deck on the back of the house…
WSF- LOL, not intentionally…
BZ- Yep been there quite a few times, and it’s a great museum!
Differ- Love it! I’ll be glad to provide what help I can.
LL- I do! And I’ve thought about that before in some ‘other’ parts of the world, but hunger over-rode :-0
Brigid- Will do.
When I lived in bella Napoli ’59-’62 I flew up to Merry Old and bought a new 650ccTriumph Bonneville at the factory and rode it all the way back to italy. Next year the girlfriend,nee wife and I rode the Bonne back up and got her a brandy new BSA 500 twin. Then proceeded to do a little more touring of the British Isles before heading back again. You stirred up some wonderful memoris with this little post, and yes ,I am now officially an Old Fart!
Have a great time with the girls!!!
Of course it’s a weapon.
You could put someone’s eye out with one of those!
Hey! Wake up!
I’m talking to you.
Though I’m not particularly fond of the bay area in general, some of those mountain roads can be a lot of fun.
I take it that’s one of those roads made by a surveyor chasing a snake and throwing sticks at it?
Sounds like fun!
Last Thai Restaurant we went to, Calmer Half ordered the “Seafood Special”. Out came a bowl of fried noodles bigger than my head, topped with slices and shreds of all sorts of vegetables (including skin-meltingly hot peppers) and a couple pounds of shrimp and scallops, with the chef’s wife / waitress apologizing that they had no lobster today, so verrry sorry. It was glorious.
For all the appearance, how did the fish taste?
Ev- I had a 650 Lightning back in the day too… sigh…
Ed- Yessir… er… what were we talking about??? 🙂
Andy- VERY true!
Wing- A drunk snake… And the fish was actually excellent!
If three of you wanted to eat it, I figured it must have been pretty good. 🙂 I’d love to have a Super 7 one day.
We used to eat at a Thai place in DC that served Tripled Chilied Fish. The fish changed to whatever was fresh but the seasoning was outstanding.
With good friends and a few Thai beers, life was good!
Gerry
Sounds like you earned some well deserved rest!
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