Weekend Recap

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Saturday morning - 5:00 am wake-up and out the door to power walk the hills at 5:45. Back in at 6:30, clean up and out the door at 8:00 am to meet up with friends. Drive to LA and go to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising for the annual movie costume display. This year's batch includes Star Trek Into Darkness, Catching Fire, GI Joe, Thor 2, Oblivion, Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters, and a few other Sci-Fi movies which made the visit more fun than usual. Follow that up with a quick stop at the garment district so friends could buy fabric for Comic-Con costumes, lunch, and then it was down to San Diego for a BBQ with friends. 

All too short of a time later I was back on the road headed to the Orange County airport to pick up work visitors arriving on a 10:30 pm flight. 11:30 pm in an Irvine hotel since I had to meet with the visitors in the morning.

Today - back down to San Diego for fun with friends, afternoon (now in Carlsbad) for more exercise and at 5:00 pm I'm ready to drive back to Orange County for a couple more hotel nights and work activities Monday & Tuesday.

Three short paragraphs sum up my weekend and that is how it felt, all too short!

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