Now, I can make my final judgment on our recent experiment using priceline.com to book our hotels. A brief recap: We decided to book our hotel(s) on a San Diego trip via Priceline’s name your price program. We bid for 3 nights at a minimum 3-star hotel at $75 per night – fully expecting to … Read more
I recognize that my previous post was a bit of a rant, but, I can assure you, dear reader, that had it written it immediately after the event, it would have been positively vitriolic, even by my standards. As it was, it still took three complete re-writes (from scratch) before I thought it down to … Read more
Sometimes people need to learn to pull their heads out of their butts. Personally, I’ve had to hold back this narrative of our last full day in San Diego because of how pissed off I get every time I sat down to write it. I’m just going to divorce myself from commenting on it in … Read more
It was goodbye to the 3-star Woodfin today and hello to the 4-star Omni San Diego. I’ll relate more about the ultimate Priceline experience later, suffice it to say the Omni is a nicer hotel, right next to the Gaslamp district and the convention center – for less money per night. We got out of … Read more
Day three brought us to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park. Which constitutes a lot of walking and driving around looking at animals. ’nuff said. Afterwards we explored the area, bought some “fresh” california produce from a roadside stand and stopped at Famer Boys Hamburgers, for a decent, if unremarkable late lunch. That put … Read more
Getting out fairly early, after a breakfast of toaster waffles, we headed towards Legoland, which is 20-30 miles north of our hotel. First we had to stop at a nearby (to LegoLand) outlet mall and pick up our three-day passes to San Diego’s major attractions. While we were there I stopped, for the very first … Read more
It’s a bit of a fudge to call this “day one”. Any trip road trip to San Diego involves basically wasting all day on the 376.01 mile drive over. Even though we left at 8:30AM, we didn’t arrive at the hotel until 5:00PM. It’s really one barren, desolate wasteland, with Yuma smack dab in the … Read more
It’s been quite the rainy day here in Phoenix for Christmas, which is fine, since we spent the day indoors anyway. Certainly, we can always use the rain. A couple of amusing stories so far this year, starting with my gift to Irene. Recently, I was really, really stretching to think of a gift for … Read more
My wife uses the OSX RSS Visualizer screen saver, with the feed set to my blog. Michelle walks into the rooms, 30 seconds later she looks at the screen and says, “Don’t tell my daughter what?” I hastily cleared the screen saver. I should never underestimate that girl…
It’s a good thing my kids don’t read my blog. This will be no surprise to most parents, but my kids are not like each other… apart from the obvious anatomical differences. James is a compulsive, obsessive child, who is frequently fixated by superheroes. Hardly a day goes by where it isn’t “Batman this, Batman … Read more