May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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Alan Wong’s (a double helping)
In our latest visit to Honolulu, we were greedy enough to eat at Alan Wong’s twice during our trip. The first meal was very good, but the second meal outdid itself. At the second dinner, Jim and I ordered the classic tasting menu, which we could do without having the entire table required to order…
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The Bourne Legacy
I am a huge fan of the Bourne movies, and Jeremy Renner is my latest candidate for hunk-of-the-year, and so while I was disappointed that Matt Damon didn’t return to the franchise, I was predisposed to like this movie. I did really enjoy the movie, but there are some major differences compared to the Matt…
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(Almost) Completed Renovations
It’s been a while since I’ve done a house renovation update, and I wish I could say that no news is good news… We still aren’t done with the renovations <sigh>, but there is progress. We have moved upstairs, as all of the bedrooms and bathrooms are about 99% finished. Each bedroom now has its…
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Our Hawaii Vacation
We just returned from a fabulous week in Honolulu where the skies were blue, the ocean even bluer, and it was 80 degrees every day. Oahu is our favorite island, mostly because we aren’t sit-on-the-beach kind of people, so there is more to do in Honolulu than anywhere else. That’s not to say we didn’t…
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Brave (the movie not the adjective)
We saw Brave, the latest Disney/Pixar movie yesterday. In general, we are predisposed to like Disney/Pixar movies, and Brave was no exception. To begin with, the animation was visually stunning. From the panoramas of the Scottish highlands to each individual strand of Merida’s (the heroine’s) hair, everything was beautifully rendered and surprisingly realistic. It was…
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
We went to see The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre last night. It’s a curious play, as Shakespeare resurrected Sir John Falstaff from his Henry IV plays that take place in the 1400s and time-traveled him to the Elizabethan era in the 1600s. The Shakespeare Theatre production has the play set right…
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Beijing & Hong Kong 2012
We had a fabulous trip to Beijing and Hong Kong! In Beijing, we finally got a chance to see the renovated National Museum. Jim and I had last seen it in 1987, and the museum now has more than 5,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Chinese government had hoped to have it open in…
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4th of July on the Mall
We were fortunate enough to be invited to watch the fireworks on the Mall (in Washington, DC) from the rooftop of the Museum of American History. Here are a couple of photos from the evening. It was definitely an unusual 4th of July for us, as we had just gotten our power back and weren’t…
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Flight from Heck and the Derecho
We arrived back from Hong Kong on Saturday, June 30–14 hours later than planned due to a 10 hour delay taking off from Hong Kong, a diversion to Minneapolis due to bad weather in Chicago and insufficient fuel to hover after the trans-Pacific flight, and a system alarm light coming on as we were getting…
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Protected: Graduation (the 4th grade version)
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Got any book recommendations?