I love fall. The house is actually a little chilly tonight! I had a pretty great weekend, even though it was pretty mellow.
Diana and I went to Cedar Point again on Friday night. It was much warmer this time, damn near perfect. We observed something cool in the fright zone. Right at 8, they had some kind of speech or poem or something piped into there, and all at once, all 30+ fog machines fired up all at once. It was pretty cool to see. Interesting that they've reached a point of coordinating the fog machines!
We got some solid riding in too. Hit Raptor, Blue Streak, Millennium Force, Magnum and Maverick. We had Midway Market, which was mediocre, and finally had fries for the first time since, well, July! Lots of walking too, which is something I really felt I needed.
Ran into John Hildebrandt on the midway, and told him I'm tired of the food prices. He looked at me like I was a little crazy, but Diana backed me up with the Orlando is cheaper angle.
Saturday was another get up late day, and unfortunately I'm still getting allergy sneezes at Diana's house. I wish I knew why. I like messing with her cats (even if Cosmo gets a little neglected). We had BWW for lunch again. At home I ended up taking two naps, while Diana read and then napped with me. I'm such a slacker, but I had been up two late nights and I think it just caught up with me.
Saturday night we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner with two of Diana's best friends, Sherry and Steve. They've got a one-year-old, and since he was born Diana doesn't see as much of them, so it worked out. Sherry is also Diana's tennis partner for doubles. Good times. Ended with coffee and a big cookie for me at Starbucks. I felt a little dirty, but hey, I haven't sold out and started drinking there like Gonch.
Sunday, more slacking! Actually we went out to a Joanne Fabrics so Diana could get yarn for a knitting project, and then went up to the Winking Lizard in Peninsula. Diana had never see the locks on the old canal, so it was something new for her to see. It got me to thinking how a lot of people don't even know what's in their back yard. There is a fair amount of cool stuff around here. If only we could get by without winter!
I didn't write a line of code this weekend, but I did spend every free night last week coding, so I needed the break. This week will be busy I think too. I've gotta pull together the ticket envelopes and name tags and all of that for the Holiday World event. My mom will be in town, but I'm not sure if I'll see them or not. I gotta call and find out.
Diana and I seem to find a lot of comfort in our company, and we can do our own things separate, but together. That's a nice feeling, and it seems there's not any pressure to be anything other than who we are. We're able to just be, and it works. No guilt games, no worry about the other being bored, etc. I don't know if I've ever felt autonomous while together. It's new territory for me.
I gotta go do the podcast, talk about Geauga Lake... :)
Hey! If Tyler gets his then mine better say "Lord Fuckin' Gonchar"
If that's not an option can mine say "Holiday World Fanboy" - I imagine Paula would enjoy that about as much...considering it'd be on me. :)
And I haven't made Starbucks a daily thing...yet, but I have been there like four times since my blog post. The really f'd up thing is that I have three different Starbucks within a 2 miles radius. It's just so not me to do Starbucks.