June 10 2009

Rather a lazy day today. A long walk down the beach was my main exercise. Bloody glorious weather.
Hey, a brief post is better than nothing...

SA vacation 2009 - first post

First post of my South Africa vacation 2009 travelogue. A summary of the last few days in brief.

Sunday 05/31 - We left home remarkably early, getting it all together by around 11 AM. A hearty breakfast at the Horsebrass followed, and then good ole I5 North. A hard slog of a drive, and we made it to Port Townsend by mid afternoon.

Monday 06/01 - A wonderful visit with Kirsten's family, including Friday the puppy. A nice relaxing time. Too full of my usual travel worry to sleep too well.

Tuesday 06/02 - Up at the crack of bloody dawn. Or even before - 04:45. Our destination is the Mt. Vernon Amtrak station, where we will catch the train to Vancouver.
The first part of the trip is a ferry to Whidbey Island, which I love. I find ferries such fun. Made the rest of the trip smoothly, and the train ride to Vancouver was just fine.
After being grilled by Canadian customs for quite a while (I know you were just doing your job, chief, but you were a bit of a wanker), we were met by my old friend Paul. He is remarkably looking the same as he was in High School - aged well. We checked into our hotel near the airport and then had a great day, mostly eating, drinking and chatting.

Wednesday 06/03 - Relaxed at he hotel room, not really having time to go into the city before checkout time. Security (ugh) and now relaxing with a couple of beers (for me - other drinks for Kirsten and Adam). Flight in about three hours. Cheers.

A few shots of me at YVR:

Black Magic, aka Meeting at Midnight (1944)

Black Magic is a 1944 Charlie Chan movie. It is rather unremarkable, except for the appearance of Frances Chan, who played Charlie's daughter of the same name. She gives a fun and charming performance, and it is a pity that she seems to have appeared in so few films. (IMDB lists only six.)

Since there seem to be very few screen shots of this movie on ye olde internets, a few appear below.

We'll get right on that

A couple of scans

Got these with a lot of old postcards. Loose leaf paper.

Mildly funny twitter search result

I have an RSS feed set up to catch tweets that reference the company at which I work, Con-way. Thought this result was funny: Also, will not be walking for coffee anytime soon. Mr. Creepy ex-con, way to ruin my lunchbreak. Much hatred & revulsion, Reggie

New Music Media (MOMA) - postcrossing

Sent by a postcrossing chum.
On back:
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
www.moma.org
Shin Matsunaga. Japanese, born 1940. New Music Media, 1977. Offset lithograph, 40½ x 28 5/8". The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer through the The U.S. Art Directors Club, New York. © Shin Matsunaga