Just a continuation... and to clarify. Yes, we got up Saturday morning, said what the hell, lets go see if we can get ourselves to Vegas or LA for a day. Packed up a backpack each, drove to the airport. Had a few ticket agents snark at us like ummm yeah noooo we don't have any last minute tickets you losers. The Alaska woman though did look extensively at options, and said if we could get ourselves to Portland, it wouldn't be a problem. The United chap said what he would do, as a personal favor, is sell us tickets for Tuesday, but then put us on standby for the flight that afternoon, and he said we'd most likely get on the flight Saturday. Problem was it was about $260 each one way. Ouch. We opted instead to save the cash.

I should also mention I had an appointment Friday night to get my tattoo. I was looking forward to this as it was one hell of a week. Unfortunately, teh tattoo place called mid daty Friday... my artist had a death in the family, and a few mins later I was reschedule for mid-March. Ouch! Not a great end to the week.

So after our day tripping Saturday to the places mentioned, then building our cabinet, I had to work Sunday. Actually first, I had a MBA group meeting with a person from Starbucks International, who we were interviewing for a project. He was very well informed and gave us the nitty gritty on Starbucks' strategy approach to international expansion, which was interesting as I am a big Starbucks fan. Then I had to work. It went well. As much as working weekends (5th in a row!) sucks... it was good to feel finally like I was back on top of my work, as I spent the entire work catering to auditors who while somewhat friendly, are a major thorn in my side, and had me working until 8pm almost every evening, and I had to skip school the entire week. Plus with the lack of tattoo action Friday, I was right ticked. So I decided to act on a whim I had had for awhile, and get a 2nd pair of Oakleys, something less "showboaty" than my Silver framed/Fire lense ones I typically wear. As my brother Wes once said "I like a sunglass that compliments my face, not take it over". Fair enough. So i bought some black on black ones with polarized lenses. Very nice.